Hypertext Webster Gateway: "candy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Candy \Candy\, n. [Mahratta kha[.n][.d][=i], Tamil ka[.n][.d]i.]
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Candy \Can"dy\, v. i.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Candy \Can"dy\ n. [F. candi. See {Candy}, v. t.]
A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling
sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than
crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It
is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit,
nuts, etc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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