Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Candying"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Candy \Can"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Candied}; 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][.d]da
piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. kha[.n][.d], kha[.d] 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. --Drayson.
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