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Adelicacy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. That precious nectar may the taste renew Of Eden's dainties, by our parents lost. Beau. & Fl.

as"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.

, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. What stores my dairies and my folds contain. Dryden.

The business of conducting a dairy.

A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.

A woman who attends to a dairy.

A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.

Full of daisies; adorned with daisies. "The daisied green." Langhorne. The grass all deep and daisied. G. Eliot.

low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.

A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.

To make ready to fight; to array. [Obs.] Darrain your battle, for they are at hand. Shak.

A dairymaid. [Obs.]

The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.

Debonairness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Courteously; elegantly.

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. Sterne.