transitive. To preserve with salt, sugar, spices, or the like: to pickle.

To preserve, to pickle; esp. (in later use) to preserve with sugar, make into a comfit.

transitive. To preserve (edible plants, fruits, etc.) by boiling with sugar, which crystallizes and forms a crust; to coat or encrust (edible…

transitive. To preserve (fruit, etc.) in sugar or by similar means; to make into a conserve (conserve, n. 2). Now chiefly U.S.

To prepare for use as a relish or delicacy; to make into a comfit or confection; to preserve, pickle. ? Obsolete.

= candy, v.