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Candy : (noun)
1: a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with
fruit or nuts
(verb)
1: coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn:
sugarcoat, glaze]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Candy : \Candy\, n. [Mahratta kha[.n][.d][=i], Tamil ka[.n][.d]i.]
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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