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

An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia.

To melt; to dissolve; to thaw. [Obs.]

nne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.

A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.

"A corn of powder." Beau & Fl. Corn ball, a ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in g…

A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.

Pulverized sugar candy. Crabb.

, a place in or near a sugar orchard, where maple sugar is made. -- Sugar candian, sugar candy. [Obs.] -- Sugar candy, sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized; candy made from sugar. -- Sugar cane (Bot.), a tall perennial grass (Saccharum officinarium), with thick short-jointed stems. It has been cultivated for…

A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]