Word Meanings - MARCHPANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. marzipan Shak. (more info) fr. L. maza frumenty + L. panis bread; but perh. the

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• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• FRUMENTY
  Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. Halliwell.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• POUNDCAKE
  A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• POUND
  1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden. 2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as,
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• IMPOUNDER
  One who impounds.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.