Candy
['kændi]
['kændɪ] or ['kændi]
Definition
(noun.) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.
Editor: Patrick--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Micawber
Definition
n. a South Indian weight generally containing 20 maunds about 500 pounds English.—Also Can′die and Kan′dy.
n. a sweetmeat made of sugar: anything preserved in sugar.—v.t. to preserve or dress with sugar: to congeal or crystallise as sugar.—v.i. to become congealed.—p.adj. Can′died encrusted with candy or sugar: (fig.) sugared flattering.
Edited by Jessica
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of making candy, denotes profit accruing from industry. To dream of eating crisp, new candy, implies social pleasures and much love-making among the young and old. Sour candy is a sign of illness or that disgusting annoyances will grow out of confidences too long kept. To receive a box of bonbons, signifies to a young person that he or she will be the recipient of much adulation. It generally means prosperity. If you send a box you will make a proposition, but will meet with disappointment.
Edited by Elsie
Examples
- I remember when Mr. Candy himself brought the list to my mistress. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Candy's assistant, said Betteredge. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy's illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On these trains I employed a boy who sold bread, tobacco, and stick candy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The guest on her left was Mr. Candy, our doctor at Frizinghall. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They have got some remarkably fine skeletons lately at the College of Surgeons, says Mr. Candy, across the table, in a loud cheerful voice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Now it's Mr. Candy's assistant who brings the list to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There's a picayune for you to buy candy with, Dodo, said Henrique; go get some. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I call it pie, nuts, sugar-candy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- SEVENTH NARRATIVE In a Letter from Mr. CANDY Frizinghall, Wednesday, September 26th, 1849. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Glucose syrup, however, has largely superseded all other table syrups, and is extensively used in brewing, for cheap candies, and for bee food. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Checked by Keith