Word Meanings - CANDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pers. qand, fr. Skr. Khan'c8da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. 1. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger. 2. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup. 3. To incrust

Additional info about word: CANDY

Pers. qand, fr. Skr. Khan'c8da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. 1. To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger. 2. To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup. 3. To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. Drayson.

Related words: (words related to CANDY)

• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• SIRUPY; SYRUPY
  Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities. Mortimer.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• SUGARLESS
  Without sugar; free from sugar.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• SIRUPED; SYRUPED
  Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• GINGERBREAD
  A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree , the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. --
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• SIRUP; SYRUP
  jarope, LL. siruppus, syrupus), fr. Ar. sharab a drink, wine, coffee, 1. A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar. 2. A thick and viscid saccharine solution of superior quality (as sugarhouse sirup
• SUGARINESS
  The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.
• INCRUST
  To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. (more info) 1. To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with
• SUGAR-HOUSE
  A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• SUGARING
  1. The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used. 2. The act or process of making sugar.
• DISCANDY
  To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• SEA GINGER
  A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• SEAPIECE
  A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.