These are the meanings of the letters DANCEY when you unscramble them.
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Candy (v. t.)
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
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Candy (v. t.)
To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
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Candy (v. t.)
To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
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Candy (v. i.)
To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
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Candy (v. i.)
To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
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Candy (v. t.)
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.
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Candy (n.)
A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
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Caned (imp. & p. p.)
of Cane
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Caned (a.)
Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.
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Dance (v. i.)
To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
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Dance (v. i.)
To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
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Dance (v. t.)
To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
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Dance (v. i.)
The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
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Dance (v. i.)
A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
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Decay (v. i.)
To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
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Decay (v. t.)
To cause to decay; to impair.
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Decay (v. t.)
To destroy.
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Decay (n.)
Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
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Decay (n.)
Destruction; death.
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Decay (n.)
Cause of decay.