A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.
A piece of such a confection.
v.
can·died, can·dy·ing, can·dies
v.
tr.
To reduce to sugar crystals.
To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup.
To make pleasant or agreeable; sweeten.
v.
intr.
To become crystallized into sugar.
To become coated with sugar or syrup.
[Middle English candi, crystallized cane sugar, short for sugre-candi, translation of Old French sucre candi and Old Italian zucchero candi, both from Arabic sukkar qandīy : sukkar, sugar + qandīy, candied (from qand, cane sugar, probably from Dravidian kaṇṭu, lump).]
[kan-dee] 
noun, plural -dies, verb, -died, -dy⋅ing.