(verb) : candĭco, āre, candeo, like albico, from albeo
* To be whitish or white (first used by Plin. the elder), Plin. 37, 11, 73, § 189; 34, 12, 32, § 127; App. M. 5, p. 168; Scrib. Comp. 237; Mart. Cap. 1, § 70; 7, § 728; Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 51: candicans vadum,id. 3, praef. § 4: gemma,id. 37, 10, 60, § 169: cardamomum,id. 12, 13, 29, § 50: nube candicante,id. 18, 35, 82, § 356: in ficticiis (geminis) scariphatio omnis candicat,Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 200 Jan. dub.; cf. Sillig ad loc.

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