Crossword-Solution: COMFIT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Comfit | n. | A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection. |
| Comfit | v. t. | To preserve dry with sugar. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “COMFIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Candy containing a fruit or nut | 1 answer |
| Candy containing fruit | 1 answer |
| Dried fruit candy | 1 answer |
| Sweetmeat. | 5 answers |
| CANDIED fruit | 5 answers |
| A JAR CONTAINING RICE FOR THE MOST PART, OR FRUIT | 10 answers |
| Confection. | 31 answers |
| Sweet | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COMFIT (5)
This argument produced some effect; for, henceforward, instead of the fifth comfit, she always told them to hold out their tiny palms, into which she shook either peppermint or ginger lozenges, as a preventive to the dangers that might arise from the previous sale.
XXXVII Reclined on Alexandrian carpets rare The ladies joyed the cool in great delight; About them various wines in vessels were, And every sort of comfit nicely dight; Fast by, and sporting with the ripple there, Lay, waiting on their needs, a pinnace light, Until a breeze should fill her sail anew: For then no breath upon the waters blew.
How shall all this help her when she has castle of her own to keep, with a hundred mouths all agape for beef and beer?” “True, my sweet bird, true,” answered the knight, picking a comfit from his gold drageoir.
Sir Nigel alone, unconscious to all appearance of the universal panic, walked with unfaltering step up the centre of the road, a silken handkerchief in one hand and his gold comfit-box in the other.
Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker’s wife! “Not you, in good sooth,” and “As true as I live,” and “As God shall mend me,” and “As sure as day” And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths As if thou never walk’dst further than Finsbury.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1964–2015).