The Collaborative International Dictionary
Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Candied (k[a^]n"d[=e]d); p. pr & vb. n. Candying.] [F. candir (cf. It. candire, Sp. az['u]car cande or candi), fr. Ar. & Pers. qand, fr. Skr. Kha[.n][.d]da piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. kha[.n][.d], kha[.d] to break.]
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
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To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green.
--Drayson.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of candy English)
Usage examples of "candying".
From the library he made his way, over plank bridgelets and fern-choked gullies and down long flights of decaying wooden steps, to the plain little house called the Breadbox, where Q'iin the Herbmistress was candying lemon peel in the glass porch overlooking the sun-salted slope of the herb garden.