'Candy' definitions:

Definition of 'candy'

(from WordNet)
noun
A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts [syn: candy, confect]
verb
Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze [syn: sugarcoat, glaze, candy]

Definition of 'Candy'

From: GCIDE
  • Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]), v. i.
  • 1. To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Candy'

From: GCIDE
  • Candy \Can"dy\ n. [F. candi. See Candy, v. t.]
  • 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • 2. Cocaine. [slang] [PJC]

Definition of 'Candy'

From: GCIDE
  • Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Candied (k[a^]n"d[=e]d); 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][dsdot]da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. kha[.n][dsdot], kha[dsdot] to break.]
  • 1. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. [1913 Webster]
  • Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. --Drayson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Candy'

From: GCIDE
  • Candy \Candy\, n. [Mahratta kha[.n][dsdot][imac], Tamil ka[.n][dsdot]i.] A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds. [1913 Webster]