I.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.
candĭco , āre, v. n. candeo, like albico, from albeo,