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DA'INTY, a.

1. Nice pleasing to the palate of exquisite taste delicious as dainty food.
2. Delicate of acute sensibility nice in selecting what is tender and good squeamish soft luxurious as a dainty taste or palate a dainty people.
3. Scrupulous in manners ceremonious.
4. Elegant tender soft pure neat effeminately beautiful as dainty hands or limbs.
5. Nice affectedly fine as a dainty speaker.

DA'INTY, n.

1. Something nice and delicate to the taste that which is exquisitely delicious a delicacy.

Be not desirous of dainties, for they are deceitful meat. Proverbs 23

2. A term of fondness.

Why, that's my dainty. Shak.

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Entry for 'Dainty'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​d/dainty.html.
 
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