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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CANDY, v.t.
1. To conserve or dress with sugar; to boil in sugar.
2. To from into congelations or crystals.
3. To cover or incrust with congelations, or crystals of ice.
CANDY, v.i. To from into crystals, or become congealed; to take on the form of candied sugar.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural candies) Etymology: Middle English sugre candy, part translation of Middle French sucre candi, from Old French sucre sugar + Arabic qand? candied, from qand crystallized sugar Date: 15th century 1. crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup 2. a. a confection made with sugar and often flavoring and filling b. a piece of such confection 3. something that is pleasant or appealing in a light or frivolous way <visual candy> • candy adjective II. verb (candied; candying) Date: 1533 transitive verb 1. to encrust in or coat with sugar; specifically to cook (as fruit or fruit peel) in a heavy syrup until glazed 2. to make attractive ; sweeten 3. to crystallize into sugar intransitive verb to become coated or encrusted with sugar crystals ; become crystallized into sugar

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 (in full sugar-candy) sugar crystallized by repeated boiling and slow evaporation. 2 US sweets; a sweet. --v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. as candied adj.) preserve by coating and impregnating with a sugar syrup (candied fruit). Etymology: F sucre candi candied sugar f. Arab. kand sugar

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Candy Candy, n. [Mahratta kha[.n][.d][=i], Tamil ka[.n][.d]i.] A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Candy Can"dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Candied; 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][.d]da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. kha[.n][.d], kha[.d] to break.] 1. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger. 2. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup. 3. To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. --Drayson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Candy Can"dy, v. i. 1. To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time. 2. To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Candy Can"dy n. [F. candi. See Candy, v. t.] A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(candies) Candy is sweet foods such as toffees or chocolate. (AM; in BRIT, usually use sweets) ...a piece of candy... ...a large box of candies... N-VAR

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Drunk. IRISH.

Moby Thesaurus

Jell-O, addictive drug, blancmange, cake, comfit, compote, concrete, condense, confection, confectionery, confiture, conserve, crystallize, dangerous drug, dope, drug, dulcify, edulcorate, frosting, gelatin, glaze, granulate, hard drug, hard stuff, honey, icing, jam, jelly, junk, marmalade, meringue, mousse, mull, preserve, saccharify, set, solidify, stuff, sugar, sugar off, sugarcoat, sweet, sweet stuff, sweeten, sweetmeat, sweets, take a set, thicken, tutti-frutti, whipped cream