Part 1590

<hw>Can"dor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <altsp>[Written also <asp>candour</asp>.]</altsp> <ety>[L. <ets>candor</ets>, fr. <ets>cand\'89re</ets>; cf. F. <ets>candeur</ets>. See <er>candid</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Nor yor unquestioned integrity Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and <b>candor</b>. <i>Massinger.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.</def>

<blockquote>Attribute superior sagacity and <b>candor</b> to those who held that side of the question. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Candroy</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"droy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.</def>

<h1>Candy</h1> <Xpage=209>

<hw>Can"dy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Candied</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr & vb. n.</tt> <er>Candying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>candir</ets> (cf. It. <ets>candire</ets>, Sp. <ets>az\'a3car cande</ets> or <ets>candi</ets>), fr. Ar. & Pers. <ets>qand</ets>, fr. Skr. <ets>Kha\'c9\'c8da</ets> piece, sugar in pieces or lumps, fr. <ets>kha\'c9\'c8</ets>, <ets>kha\'c8</ets> to break.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To conserve or boil in sugar; <as>as, to <ex>candy</ex> fruits; to <ex>candy</ex> ginger.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; <as>as, to <ex>candy</ex> sirup</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.</def>

<blockquote>Those frosts that winter brings Which <b>candy</b> every green. <i>Drayson.</i></blockquote>

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<h1>Candy</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"dy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To have sugar crystals form in or on; <as>as, fruits preserved in sugar <ex>candy</ex> after a time</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.</def>

<h1>Candy</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"dy</hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>candi</ets>. See <er>Candy</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.</def>

<h1>Candy</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Candy</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Mahratta <ets>kha\'c9\'c8\'c6</ets>, Tamil <ets>ka\'c9\'c8i</ets>.]</ety> <def>A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.</def>

<h1>Candytuft</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Can"dy*tuft`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An annual plant of the genus <spn>Iberis</spn>, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the <spn>I. umbellata</spn>, first, discovered in the island of Candia.</def>

<h1>Cane</h1> <Xpage=210>

<hw>Cane</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>cane</ets>, <ets>canne</ets>, OF. <ets>cane</ets>, F. <ets>canne</ets>, L. <ets>canna</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/, <?/; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. <ets>q\'beneh</ets> reed. Cf. <er>Canister</er>, <er>canon</er>, 1st <er>Cannon</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A name given to several peculiar palms, species of <spn>Calamus</spn> and <spn>D\'91manorops</spn>, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; <as>as, the <ex>canes</ex> of a raspberry</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Like light <b>canes</b>, that first rise big and brave. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; In the Southern United States <stype>great cane</stype> is the <spn>Arundinaria macrosperma</spn>, and <stype>small cane</stype> is. <spn>A. tecta</spn>.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.</def>