candies
noun
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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.
verb
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To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Example: Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
noun
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A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.