confectionary

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: con=fec=tion=ar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

confectionary, n. [Cf. LL. confectionaris a pharmacist.].

 A confectioner.  [1913 Webster]
"He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks."  [1913 Webster]

confectionary, a. 

 Prepared as a confection.  [1913 Webster]
"The biscuit or confectionary plum."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

confectionary

Sweetness

N sweetness, dulcitude, sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food), dulcification, dulcoration, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low, sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet, eau sucr_ee, sweets to the sweet.