Candy
Candy (kan"dy) , transitive verb
[French candir (compare Italian candire, Sp. azúcar cande or candi), from Arabic & Persian qand, from Sanskrit Khandda piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, from khand, 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.
Candy (kan"dy) , intransitive verb
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.
Candy , noun
[French candi. See Candy, transitive verb]
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.
Cocaine. [slang]
Candy , noun
[Mahratta khandī, Tamil kandi.]
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.