Candied

ppl. a. Also 7 canded, 7–8 candid. [f. CANDY v. + -ED¹.]

  1.  Preserved or incrusted with sugar.

1616.  R. C., Times’ Whis., VI. 2771. Marmalade, Candid eringoes, & rich marchpaine stuff.

1620.  Venner, Via Recta, vi. 106. Candied ginger.

1712.  trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 151. Candied Orange Peel.

1859.  Sala, Tw. round Clock, 56. Candied horehound.

  b.  transf. and fig. Covered with anything crystalline or glistening, as hoar-frost.

1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, VI. ciii. 114. The siluer moone … Spred frostie pearle on the canded ground.

c. 1750.  Shenstone, Odes, Wks. 1764, I. 305. The winter’s candy’d thorn.

1822.  Hazlitt, Table-t., Ser. II. vii. (1869), 144. My sensations are all glossy … they wear a candied coat.

  2.  Crystallized, congealed.

1641.  Best, Farm. Bks. (1856), 68. Putte up before it [honey] wax cold and canded.

1648.  Earl Westmoreland, Otia Sacra (1879), 88. When the clumsie Winter doth incline His candid Icicles.

1746.  G. Adams, Microgr., 238. The inside Cavity of it [a Flint] appear’d to be crusted all over with a pretty candid substance.

1810.  Henry, Elem. Chem. (1840), II. 198. Transparent crystals of sugar … called candied sugar.

  3.  fig. ‘Sugared,’ ‘honied,’ flattering, glozing.

1602.  Shaks., Ham., III. ii. 65. The Candied tongue.

a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 55/2. The candid poyson’d Baits Of Jesuites.