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  1. To melt; dissolve. Fortune and Antony part here; even here Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming Cæsar. Shak., A. and C., iv. 10. My brave Egyptians all, By the discandying [var. discandering—Knight] of this pelleted storm, Lie graveless. Shak., A. and C., iii. 11.

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  1. apparently from dis- privative + candy, v.; i. e., melt out of a candied or solid state.
 

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