Candy
/ˈkændi/
noun
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
(slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
Synonyms: confectionery, lollies, sugar candy, sweet, lolly, sweet
verb
To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
To have sugar crystals form in or on.
“Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.”
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.