candy
Speech parts
1. candy - Noun
2. candy - Verb
3. Candy - Proper noun
Meaning
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
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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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.
A slap in the face now is better than promised candy later.