1. A rich sweet made of flavoured sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
   "The shop offered a variety of candies";
   - confect, sweetie [Brit, informal], lolly [Austral, NZ], sweet [Brit]
    
2. [N. Amer] Candy and other sweets considered collectively
   "the business decided to concentrate on candy and soft drinks";
   - confectionery

1. Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
   "They candied the fruit for the holiday dessert";
   - sugarcoat, glaze
    
2. Preserve (fruit etc.) by boiling in sugar
   "They candied orange peel for use in holiday baking"

Derived forms: candies, candied, candying

Type of: confection, dulcify, dulcorate [archaic], edulcorate [archaic], sweet, sweeten

Encyclopedia: Candy, Henry