From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]), verb (used without an object)
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Candy \Can"dy\ n. [F. candi. See {Candy}, verb (used with an object)]
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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]), verb (used with an object) [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][.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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Candy \Candy\, noun [Mahratta kha[.n][.d][=i], Tamil ka[.n][.d]i.] A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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}] [also: {candied}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "candy": Jell-O, addictive drug, blancmange, cake, comfit, compote, concrete, condense, confection, confectionery, confiture, conserve, crystallize, dangerous drug, dope, drug, dulcify, edulcorate, frosting, gelatin, glaze, granulate, hard drug, hard stuff, honey, icing, jam, jelly, junk, marmalade, meringue, mousse, mull, preserve, saccharify, set, solidify, stuff, sugar, sugar off, sugarcoat, sweet, sweet stuff, sweeten, sweetmeat, sweets, take a set, thicken, tutti-frutti, whipped cream
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