From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
candy
n 1: a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with
fruit or nuts [syn: candy, confect]
v 1: coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn:
sugarcoat, glaze, candy]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]), v. i.
1. To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved
in sugar candy after a time.
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2. To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form
or mass.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Candy \Can"dy\ n. [F. candi. See Candy, v. t.]
1. Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery,
especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or
small bars, having a wide variety of shapes,
consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety
of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with
chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is
often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired
consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working
in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily
of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be
applied to a single piece of such confection or to the
substance of which it is composed.
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2. Cocaine. [slang]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Candied
(k[a^]n"d[=e]d); p. pr & vb. n. Candying.] [F. candir (cf.
It. candire, Sp. az['u]car cande or candi), fr. Ar. & Pers.
qand, fr. Skr. Kha[.n][dsdot]da piece, sugar in pieces or
lumps, fr. kha[.n][dsdot], kha[dsdot] to break.]
1. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to
candy ginger.
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2. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass
resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
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3. To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which
resembles sugar or candy.
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Those frosts that winter brings
Which candy every green. --Drayson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Candy \Candy\, n. [Mahratta kha[.n][dsdot][imac], Tamil
ka[.n][dsdot]i.]
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
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