(kan′dē) noun plural ·dies
1. Sugar or molasses crystallized by evaporation; also, a confection of sugar or molasses crystals.
2. Any of numerous confections in various colors, flavors, and forms, and consisting chiefly of cane or beet or other sugar to which has been added chocolate, milk products, fruits, fruit extracts, nuts, or the like; also, such confections collectively: usually called sweets in Great Britain.
—v. ·died, ·dy·ing v.t.
1. To cause to form into crystals of sugar.
2. To preserve by boiling or. coating with sugar, as orange peels.
3. To render pleasant; sweeten.
4. To overlay with any crystalline substance, as ice or sugar.
—v.i.
5. To become crystallized into or covered with sugar. [Short for sugar candy <F (sucre) candi <Arabic qandī made of sugar <qand sugar, ult. <Skt.]

(kan′dē)
A former spelling of KANDY.