candy

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: Can=dy

CIDE DICTIONARY

candy, v. t. [F. candir (cf. It. candire, Sp. azúcar cande or candi), fr. Ar. & Pers. qand, fr. Skr. Kha\'c9\'c8da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. kha\'c9\'c8, kha\'c8 to break.].

•  To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.  [1913 Webster]
•  To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.  [1913 Webster]
•  To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.  [1913 Webster]

  "Those frosts that winter brings
  Which candy every green."  [1913 Webster]

candy, v. i. 

•  To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.  [1913 Webster]
•  To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.  [1913 Webster]

candy, n. [F. candi. See Candy, v. t.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Cocaine.  [PJC]

candy, n. [Mahratta kha\'c9\'c8ī, Tamil ka\'c9\'c8i.].

 A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

candy, 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

THESAURUS

candy

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

ROGET THESAURUS

candy

Density

VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.

Sweetness

N sweetness, dulcitude, sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food), dulcification, dulcoration, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low, sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet, eau sucr_ee, sweets to the sweet.

VB be sweet, render sweet, sweeten, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify, candy, mull.