(v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
(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. 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.
(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.
(n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) Dietetic candies and cookies contained more calories than the regular ones.
(3) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(4) By 2008, recalls Brendan Kenalty, of customer base management, 2007-10: All the market research was saying, “Hey, everybody wants what they call candy bar phones,” which is the nonflip phone.
(5) Following eight years of employment during which he added pectin to a recipe for Christmas candies, the candymaker developed acute respiratory symptoms.
(6) The first and third courses were interchanged and consisted of either a sweet (candy bar) or savory (cheese or crackers) food, both of similar palatabilities and energy densities.
(7) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(8) A tour of the Candy car collection, however, would provide plenty of inspiration for naming any future additions to the family.
(9) While Mind Candy tries to crack it, Smith said it remains committed to the web-based virtual world that started off the Moshi Monsters phenomenon – "the beating heart of the property" – despite changing habits of children.
(10) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(11) A distinct behaviour with a neglected oral hygiene and an excessive intake of candy, soft drinks, and other food with a high sugar content was common.
(12) Twice Beresford arranged a meeting with the Candys’ finance man so they could prove their greater wealth, and twice they cancelled.
(13) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
(14) (1) There was consistent responding to both the white noise and the candy feeder.
(15) This happened to be these clocks that Salvador had made for decoration, and Francis and Sonny got so nervous they started eating them, these fabulous candy clocks."
(16) He resigned as a director of Candy & Candy in March, leaving Nick as the only Candy on the Candy & Candy board.
(17) Last question: this sounds like a fun, risky game, much better than Candy Crush.
(18) A foreign body consisting of a piece of a celophane candy wrapper was found by surgery.
(19) The consumption of candy and sugar is inversely related to alcohol intake, raising the possibility that it is related to appetite for alcohol.
(20) Updated at 3.23am BST 2.38am BST Another bout of Mitt Romney trying to ride over the moderator and just keep talking, and nearly pulls it off but Candy Crowley backs him down, but only after some verbal pushing and shoving.
Glaze
Definition:
(v. i.) To become glazed of glassy.
(n.) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
(v. t.) A glazing oven. See Glost oven.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(2) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
(3) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(4) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(5) Don't glaze over, look at these figures: if one parent is working full-time on the minimum wage taking home £346 a week, when the other gets a full-time job, their income generally only improves by £29 for her five days at work.
(6) If your eyes are glazed over like mine, this is what it’s like to be on the floor of the United States Senate,” he said.
(7) A sample of black material removed from the back wall was analysed with a scanning electron microscope and was found to be similar to black pigment found by the Louvre in brown glazes on the Mona Lisa and the painting St John the Baptist, the team said.
(8) In a community of potters in Barbados where lead glazes traditionally have been used, a survey of 12 potters, 19 of their family members, and 24 controls revealed elevated blood lead levels in the potters, their family members, and the neighbours who used pottery for culinary purposes.
(9) A study of the biaxial flexure strengths of polished vs. glazed specimens is needed to verify that current laboratory methods are appropriate for planned fatigue studies.
(10) The value of a procedure for polishing porcelain restorations that would avoid the necessity of glazing in a furnace following minor chairside adjustments is discussed.
(11) Glazed and roughened porcelain surfaces were evaluated.
(12) Glazed eyes, sporadic rapid eye movements and muscle twitches were also present.
(13) The glaze resin (Ketac-Glaze) was painted with a brush over the GI surface and cured with visible light (Demetron) for thirty seconds.
(14) Boston cream doughnuts Thick vanilla custard and a chocolate glaze: these are the foundations of the Boston Cream pie.
(15) This study evaluated the changes in vertical dimension after natural glazing and polishing procedures.
(16) Porcelain-bonded-to-metal shades remained stable after six glazings and changed only slightly after nine firings.
(17) That’s not necessarily a problem in itself, but our laws are letting far too many of those guns fall into the wrong hands,” said Glaze, setting the scene for the groups’ digital efforts.
(18) "There are many things consumers buy on a regular basis, substantial purchases where disputes routinely arise – for example, installing double-glazing – where £5,000 wouldn't cover the value of a typical claim but which could fall within this increased bracket.
(19) hold; group four was fired, polished, and not glazed.
(20) This study (1) measured the comparative tensile bond strengths of brackets bonded directly in vitro to both glazed and deglazed porcelains by the use of five adhesive systems, and (2) recorded failure sites.