n (uncountable|chiefly|US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
n (countable|chiefly|US) A piece of candy.
v (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
n (obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.