candy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.
• noun A piece of such a confection.
• noun Slang An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.
• transitive verb To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An East Indian unit of weight, usually 20 maunds, but sometimes 21 or 22, and varying in different localities and for every commodity.
• noun A solid preparation or confection of sugar or molasses, or both, boiled, inspissated, and worked by pulling to a crystalline consistence, either alone or combined with flavoring and coloring substances; hence, any confection having sugar as its basis, however prepared. Candy made of or with molasses is specifically called molasses candy and taffy.
• Sugared; sweet.
• To form into congelations or crystals; congeal in a crystalline form or inspissated concretion: as, to candy sugar, honey, etc.
• To preserve or incrust with sugar, as fruits, by immersing them in it while boiling and removing them separately or in mass.
• To cover or incrust with concretions or crystals, as of ice.
• To take the form of, or become incrusted by, candied sugar: as, pre-serves candy with long keeping.
• To become crystallized or congealed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
• transitive verb To conserve or boil in sugar.
• transitive verb To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy.
• transitive verb To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
• noun Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.
• noun slang Cocaine.
• intransitive verb To have sugar crystals form in or on.
• intransitive verb To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
• noun uncountable Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
• noun countable A piece of candy.
• verb cooking To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• 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