Candynoun
Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
Candynoun
A piece of confectionery of this kind.
Candynoun
(slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine
Candynoun
(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
Candyverb
(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
Candyverb
(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.
Candyverb
(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Candyverb
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
Candyverb
To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
Candyverb
To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
Candyverb
To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
Candyverb
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Candynoun
Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.
Candynoun
Cocaine.
Candynoun
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
Candynoun
a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts
Candyverb
coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Candy
Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.
Whipnoun
The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
Whipnoun
(hunting) A whipper-in.
Whipnoun
(politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
Whipnoun
A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
Whipnoun
Whipped cream.
Whipnoun
(nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
Whipnoun
(African American Vernacular English) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
Whipnoun
(roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
Whipnoun
A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
Whipnoun
The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
Whipnoun
Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
Whipnoun
A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
Whipnoun
(music) A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
Whipverb
(transitive) To hit with a whip.
Whipverb
To hit with any flexible object.
Whipverb
To defeat, as in a contest or game.
Whipverb
(transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
Whipverb
(transitive) To urge into action.
Whipverb
To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
Whipverb
To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
Whipverb
To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
Whipverb
(transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
Whipverb
(transitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
Whipverb
(intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
Whipverb
(intransitive) To move very fast.
Whipverb
(transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
Whipverb
To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
Whipverb
(figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
Whipverb
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
Whipverb
To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
Whipverb
To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
Whipverb
To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
Whipverb
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
Whipverb
To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
Whipverb
To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
Whipverb
To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; - often with about, around, or over.
Whipverb
To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
Whipverb
To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; - with into, out, up, off, and the like.
Whipverb
To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
Whipverb
To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
Whipverb
To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
Whipnoun
An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
Whipnoun
A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
Whipnoun
One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
Whipnoun
A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
Whipnoun
A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
Whipnoun
A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
Whipnoun
A whipping motion; a thrashing about; as, the whip of a tense rope or wire which has suddenly parted; also, the quality of being whiplike or flexible; flexibility; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
Whipnoun
Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion, as a spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit, or a rocking certain piano actions.
Whipnoun
an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
Whipnoun
a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline
Whipnoun
a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit
Whipnoun
(golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club
Whipnoun
a quick blow with a whip
Whipverb
beat severely with a whip or rod;
Whipverb
defeat thoroughly;
Whipverb
thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash;
Whipverb
strike as if by whipping;
Whipverb
whip with or as if with a wire whisk;
Whipverb
subject to harsh criticism;
Whip
A whip is a tool designed to strike humans or other animals to exert control through pain compliance or fear of pain. They can also be used without inflicting pain, for audiovisual cues, such as in equestrianism.