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To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious. "Daintified emotion." Sat. rev.

In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.

The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. The daintiness and niceness of our captains Hakluyt. More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and…

Requirinig daintles. Hence; Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; sqrupulous; ceremonious. Thew were a fine and Dainty people. Bacon. And let us not be dainty of leave taking, But shift away. Shak. To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.] Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now den…

A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood.

A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidæ.

ncholy. What besides, Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair, Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring. Milton.

propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action. You know your mother's delicacy in this point. Cowper…

Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.

An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.

teem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. Burke.

, the day of the annual race for the Derby stakes, -- Wednesday of the week before Whitsuntide.

ons; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.

stories; a dismal place. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. A dismal description of an English November. Southey.

lf. Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. Byron.

for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic] Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser.

discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

nd, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.

Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.