Candy

6 definitions found

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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  candy
       n : a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with
           fruit or nuts
       v : coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn:
           {sugarcoat}, {glaze}]
       [also: {candied}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "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