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Candy

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

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Narrower term 22

Bonbon 76% connected

Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

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Brittle 76% connected

Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.

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Butterscotch 76% connected

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Caramel 76% connected

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

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Fudge 76% connected

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

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Horehound 76% connected

A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc.

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Kiss 76% connected

To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.

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Licorice 76% connected

A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.

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Liquorice 76% connected

See Licorice.

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Lollipop 76% connected

A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.

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Lozenge 76% connected

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

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Marchpane 76% connected

A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar.

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Mint 76% connected

The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

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Nougat 76% connected

A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.

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Patty 76% connected

A little pie.

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Rock 76% connected

See Roc.

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Sucker 76% connected

One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.

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Sugarplum 76% connected

A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

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Taffy 76% connected

A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.

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Toffee 76% connected

Alt. of Toffy

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Toffy 76% connected

Taffy.

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Truffle 76% connected

Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffl…

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Confection 76% connected

A composition of different materials.

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Dulcify 76% connected

To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.

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Dulcorate 76% connected

To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.

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Edulcorate 76% connected

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.

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Sweet 76% connected

Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet orang…

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Sweeten 76% connected

To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

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Confect 92% connected

To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.

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Glaze 92% connected

To become glazed of glassy.

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