4. (Med.) A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.
&fist; The pharmacopťias formerly made a distinction between conserves (made of fresh vegetable substances and sugar) and electuaries (medicinal substances combined with sirup or honey), but the distinction is now abandoned and all are called confections.
Con*fec"tion*a*ry (?), n. [Cf. LL. confectionaris a pharmacist.] A confectioner. [Obs.]
He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks.
1 Sam. viii. 13.
Con*fec"tion*a*ry, a. Prepared as a confection.
The biscuit or confectionary plum.
Cowper.