a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
source: WordNet 3.0
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.
source: Webster 1913
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
source: Webster 1913
verb
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
source: WordNet 3.0
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
source: Webster 1913
To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.