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See Dainty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

g, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference. It [culture] is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity. J. C. Shairp. -- Di*vi"sive*ly, adv. -- Di*vi"sive*ness, n. Carlyle.

Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious. Their dainty lays and dulcet melody. Spenser.

experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.

A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.

pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet. Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands. Shak.

Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily. What is't that you took up so gingerly Shak.

To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.

o penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet. Coleridge.

difficult to control or get along with. This though, impracticable heart Is governed by a dainty-fingered girl. Rowe. Patriotic butloyal men went away disguested afresh with the impracticable arrogance of a sovereign. Palfrey.

Tempting the appetite; dainty. "Lickerish baits, fit to insnare a brute." Milton.

Soft; dainty. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To render delicate or dainty. [Obs.] Howell.

Fine; trim; dainty. [Obs.] "Their... minion dancing." Fryth.

Like a minion; daintily. Camden.

Delicate; refined; dainty; pure. Dear love, continue nice and chaste. Donne. A nice and subtile happiness. Milton.

r fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume. Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around. Spenser. To be in bad odor, to be out of favor, or in bad repute.

A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner. I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't. Congreve.