candy

[can·dy]

Candy is a sugary sweet treat. Halloween is partly about dressing up in costumes, but mostly it's about the candy.

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To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

Noun
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

Verb
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze


v. t.
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

v. t.
To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

v. t.
To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

v. i.
To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

v. i.
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

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.

n.
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.


Candy

Can"dy , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Candied ; p. pr & vb. n. Candying.] [F. candir (cf. It. candire, Sp. az'a3car cande or candi), fr. Ar. & Pers. qand, fr. Skr. Kha'c9'c8da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. kha'c9'c8, kha'c8 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.

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.

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.

Candy

Candy, n. [Mahratta kha'c9'c8'c6, Tamil ka'c9'c8i.] A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

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.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

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Usage Examples

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.

I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

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