candy

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}]
    

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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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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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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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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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