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candied
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Word definitions for candied in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. encrusted with sugar or syrup; "candied grapefruit peel" [syn: sugar-coated ] used especially of fruits [syn: crystalized , crystalised , glace ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Candied \Can"died\, a. [From 1st Candy .] Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits. Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup. Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 coated or encrusted with sugar 2 preserved in sugar or syrup by baking till it becomes translucent v (en-pastcandy)
Usage examples of candied.
Sond propped himself up among his cushions on one elbow and passed the plate of candied fruit to his guest.
Europe, the availability of the mild, fiberless crystallized ginger of Australia has sparked a recent upsurge in the consumption of candied ginger.
The cook prepared a sumptuous meal after sunset, roasting a side of ribs from the slaughtered shoat and serving it with a sauce of apricots and plums, riverweed fried with ginger, and side dishes of candied sweet potatoes and cassava porridge flavored with cumin.
It is, at bottom, a rich yellow lemon pound cake, unleavened, slightly underbaked, and filled with a volume of fruit and nuts equal to that of the cake batter green and red candied cherries and pineapple, walnuts, and yellow raisins.
Sometimes bits of paper adhere to the bottom lip and the smoker, pulling them away, reveals the candied lower teeth against the pulpy gums.
Armand, bravely spruc'd up, even drops by, tho' his heart, he will assure anyone who asks, is desolated, with a strangely festive Pudding he has whisk'd together, loaded with Currants, candied Violets, dried apricots, peaches, and cherries chopp'd fine with almonds and rejuvenated in Raspberry Brandy.
Consider: had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for love of Mistress Cunégonde—had you not come under the Inquisition—had you not travelled over America on foot—had you not run the Baron through the body—had you not lost your sheep from the good country of El Dorado—why, then, you would not now be here, to eat candied citrons and pistachio nuts.
The vegetables included bacon and collard greens, black-eyed peas, smothered okra, candied yams, string bean casserole, and cranberry sauce.
Kyle, who could have subsisted for a week on the food Governor Donar consumed during that single meal, settled for a green salad, a freshly baked scone, a serving of runyip stew, and then, because he couldn't resist, a bowl of candied insects.
Apple pies, fritters, turnovers, apple butter, jelly, pickled apples and candied apples.
They brought little bottles containing Martinis and Manhattans, and they brought celery and olives and carrot sticks, and they brought onion soup, and they brought roast beef and turkey and candied sweet potatoes and asparagus tips au gratin and coffee, tea or milk, and orange sherbet and chocolate layer cake and little mints and—.
Pigeon-egg soup, with lotus roots and dumplings and crushed pine kernels was followed by ducks' tongues cooked in sesame oil with mushrooms and bamboo shoots, which were followed by the ducks themselves at least three which had been stuffed with shellfish and steamed inside a cover of hardened bean curd, which were followed by spider crabs simmered in sweet white wine, which were followed by lamb kidneys sauteed with minced walnuts, which were followed by honeycakes, which were followed by candied fruits, which were followed by sweetmeats, which were followed by green tea, which was followed by plum wine, which was followed by Daffodil Digestive Tonic, which was followed by .
Pigeon-egg soup, with lotus roots and dumplings and crushed pine kernels was followed by ducks' tongues cooked in sesame oil with mushrooms and bamboo shoots, which were followed by the ducks themselves -- at least three -- which had been stuffed with shellfish and steamed inside a cover of hardened bean curd, which were followed by spider crabs simmered in sweet white wine, which were followed by lamb kidneys sauteed with minced walnuts, which were followed by honeycakes, which were followed by candied fruits, which were followed by sweetmeats, which were followed by green tea, which was followed by plum wine, which was followed by Daffodil Digestive Tonic, which was followed by .
The portly man blinked, bit deep into his candied apple, and moved away from the war veteran.
Why don't you run along and make sure Marjorie's not breaking out in a cold sweat over the idea of being served up with candied apple rings?