Vocabulary : Candlepin to Cane

Candlepin : A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a candle. ;; The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.
Candlestick : An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.
Candlewaster : One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Candock : A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).
Candor : Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. ;; A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.

Candroy : A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
Candy : 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. ;; To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. ;; To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time. ;; To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass. ;; 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. ;; A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
Candying : of Candy
Candytuft : An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia.
Cane : A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. ;; Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. ;; Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. ;; A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane. ;; A lance or dart made of cane. ;; A local European measure of length. See Canna. ;; To beat with a cane. ;; To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

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