1. n. (chiefly North America) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavor
2. n. (chiefly North America) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
3. n. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine
4. v. (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
5. v. (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
6. v. (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
7. n. (obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.