Candy

n. sugary sweet, confection

v. cook in or coat with sugar; become crystallized into sugar

Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which a variety of flavorings and colorants is added. It is sometimes frozen (as in a Popsicle.)In North America, candy is a broad category that includes candy bars, chocolates, liquorice, sucking candies, taffy, gumdrops, marshmallows, chewing gum and more. Vegetables or fruit glazed and coated with sugar are called candied.Outside North America, the generic name for candy is sweets or confectionery (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other Commonwealth countries.) In Australia and New Zealand, candy is, in normal usage, further categorised as either chocolate or lollies (for all other non-chocolate candies.)
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Noun
1. a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
(hypernym) sweet, confection, confectionery
(hyponym) candy bar
Verb
1. coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
(synonym) sugarcoat, glaze
(hypernym) sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate

(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. t.)
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
  

(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.
  

(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.
  

(n.)
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
  

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.