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Entry 8 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Candy

/(kăn"dy̆)/ · Can·dy · IPA /ˈkæn.di/
01 v. t. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
imp. & p. p. Candied; p. pr & vb. n. Candying
  1. 1.
    To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
  2. 2.
    To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
  3. 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.
02 v. i. To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
  1. 1.
    To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
  2. 2.
    To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
03 n. Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide v…
  1. 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.
  2. 2.
    Cocaine.[slang]
04 n. A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
  1. 1.
    A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.