Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON'SERVE, n.

1. A sweetmeat made of the inspissated juice of fruit, boiled with sugar. – Johnson.
2. In pharmacy, a form of medicine contrived to preserve the flowers, herbs, roots, or fruits of simples, as nearly as possible, in their natural fresh state. Fresh vegetables and sugar of the consistence of honey. – Encyc. Coxe.
3. A conservatory. [Not usual.] Evelyn.