noun

• (uncountable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
  "They came down to buy sugar, flour, saltfish or candy from Nana, to collect letters and exchange gossip."
• (countable, chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
  "Unwholesome pink and yellow candies were sold from trays."
• (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
• (uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.
  "candy kid; candy raver"

verb

• (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
• (intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
  "Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time."
• (intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

noun

• (obsolete) A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

name

• (historical) The Mediterranean island of Crete.
  "Assure thy selfe that as for me I never will agree That Candie Joves owne foster place (as long as I there raigne) Shall unto such a monstruous Wight a Harbrow place remaine."