?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe iii. xvii. f. 72 Greene Gynger, specyallye candyd with Sugar.

1640 T. Brugis Marrow of Physicke ii. 150 To Candy Suckets, Orenges, Lemmons, Pome citrons, and Lettice Stalkes.

?1800 Mrs. Brook Dialogue between Lady & Pupils 44 The inhabitants are noted for candying sea-holly, known by the name of eringo-root.

1918 Shanghai Times 3 June (Mag.) 3/7 There is hardly any way in which one can make one-half cup of sugar go so far as in candying orange peel.

1977 Country Life 31 Mar. 798/4 Other varieties grown in this country are not to be confused with the esculent roots of Asaparagus lucida..cooked as a vegetable or deliciously candied with sugar in the Far East.

2004 K. N. Sanecki Discovering Herbs (ed. 7) 115 Flowers can be candied and used in confectionery.

1658 G. Starkey Pyrotechny 96 The virulencie of some Simples cannot be corrected..by beating into powders,..nor boiling with Sugar into Tablets, nor by Candying or Conserving with Sugar or Honey.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 62 I will assist your Housekeeper..To pot, and candy, and preserve, for the Uses of the Family.

1978 S. McPherson In Year our Birth 42 I had thought she was candying as I liked to do when there used to be so much time.

2013 @jimmy_ginger 17 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 18 Dec. 2019) Picking and Candying today.

1591 A. W. Bk. Cookrye (rev. ed.) f. 35^v Put your Orenges into y^e sirrop: the white of an Egge and Sugar beaten togither, will make it to candie.

1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 209 The hony....of the new world, candies not, but is alwayes liquid like oyl.

1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 34 After the Syrup comes to stand some time, it will candy.

1881 C. Dadant & C. P. Dadant Extracted Honey 17 We had to endure the rebuking of an angry grocer who had had our honey candying in his store.

1915 Cobram (Victoria, Austral.) Courier 2 Dec. A cool, dry store cupboard is essential. In too warm a place jam candies.

1942 W. Lathrop Juneau 269 Flaky apple turnovers with the syrup candied on the edges crowned the meal.

2000 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 20 June 12 All honey will candy over time; heating delays the process.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xii. viii. 362 As for Sugar..the best commeth out of India. A kind of honey it is, gathered and candied in certaine canes.

1766 J. Mills Ess. Managem. Bees 142 A sudden return of cold congeals or candies the honey.

1866 Sci. Amer. 24 Mar. 206/1 Too much boiling candies the molasses.

1996 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 30 May c8 The apple fritters..are deep-fried in a batter, then dipped in honey and dropped into ice to ‘candy’ the honey.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 50 Th' excessiue cold of the mid-Aire anon Candies-it [sc. a dropping shower] all in balles of Icie stone.

1683 N. Grew New Exper. 16 There is of this invisible Nitre in Water, always enough to Season it, though not to make it Candy, or turn to Ice.

1713 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (1742) ii. 110 The Sea-salt water candied or coagulated by the Sun.

1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. ii. 169 The brine of itself breaks out of the ground, and frets away at the grass, and the very earth also, so that it lies in a plash half a foot lower than the turf about it: the cattle standing in it in the summer time, and throwing it on their backs with their tails, the sun so candies it upon them, that they appear as if covered with a hoar frost.

a1612 J. Harington in Nugæ Antiquæ (1779) II. 158 A very sharp frost..had as it were candied all that side of the steeple at Christ-Church, with an ice mixed with snow.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iv. 73 Hoary Frosts had candy'd all the Plaines.

1640 T. Carew Poems Sig. B Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost Candies the grasse.

a1791 F. Hopkinson Misc. Ess. & Occas. Writings (1792) III. 191 The stream is all candy'd with frost And the icicle hangs on the spray.

1848 T. Aird Poet. Wks. 308 The outer wheel still black, Though sleeked with gleety green, and candied o'er With ice.

a1965 L. R. Holmes in G. Abbe You & Contemp. Poetry (1965) ii. 12 Ten trillion fluttering snowflakes from the air Lie sparkling on the roofs and boughs and ground, Candying the earth for miles around With a splendid crystal whiteness.

2007 R. Macfarlane Wild Places 210 Here and there were big sycamores and oaks, their leaves candied with frost.

1639 G. Plattes Discov. Infinite Treasure vi. 22 The Seed corne steeped in fat water and candied with Lime.

1717 L. Braddon Miseries of Poor p. xv. By first infusing and candying his Seed, with what shall cost him nothing, he may preserve the same from the Moles, Field-Mice, Worms, and Birds.

1738 Briton Described 35 By a most disastrous Pitch-pole into Mud and Dirt, discolour'd his Coat, that was candied with the Effluviums of his mealy Bags.

1796 C. Varlo Floating Ideas Nature I. xxvii. 260 If our pickles for wheat or turnip feed be duly attended to, and the grain candied with a thick coat of manure, it will be a great means to prevent any infect of the worm.

1883 W. St. Clair Baddeley Bedoueen Legends & Other Poems 32 The High-Priest, came And led me to a fane of blazing brass—Candied with all imaginable gems.

2009 River Teeth 10 161 One [woman] candies her cheeks with blush.