CANDY

candy, confect

(noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

sugarcoat, glaze, candy

(verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Proper noun

Candy

A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Candy

(historical) The Mediterranean island of Crete.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Candy

(historical) The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island.

(historical) The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom.

Etymology 4

Proper noun

Candy

A surname.

• H. E. Bates

Anagrams

• Dancy, dancy

Etymology 1

Noun

candy (countable and uncountable, plural candies)

(uncountable, chiefly, North America) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

(countable, chiefly, North America) A piece of confectionery of this kind.

(slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.

Synonyms

• (confection): confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US)

• (piece of candy): sweet (British), lolly (Australia)

Verb

candy (third-person singular simple present candies, present participle candying, simple past and past participle candied)

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

Etymology 2

Noun

candy (plural candies)

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

Synonyms

• maunee

Anagrams

• Dancy, dancy

Source: Wiktionary

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Can"dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Candied; p. pr & vb. n. Candying.] Etym: [F. candir (cf. It. candire, Sp. azúcar cande or candi), fr. Ar. & Pers. qand, fr. Skr. Khan\'c8da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. khan\'c8, khad 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.

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.

Can"dy n. Etym: [F. candi. See Candy, v. t.]

Definition: 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.

Candy, n. Etym: [Mahratta khan\'c8i, Tamil kan\'c8i.]

Definition: A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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