| v. t. | 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. |
| 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. |
| n. | 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. |
| 1. | A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds. |
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candy - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts