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Sleek; smooth. "Both slick and dainty." Chapman.

To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous. [Obs.] "A spiced conscience." Chaucer.

a sturdy oak. Milton. He was not of any delicate contexture; his limbs rather sturdy than dainty. Sir H. Wotton.

A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. Jer. Taylor.

ervice. That angry fool . . . Whipping her house, did with his amarting tool Oft whip her dainty self. Spenser.

Fig.: Taste; palate. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. Dryden.

fine pearl. [Obs.] If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say "singular," and by themselves alone. Holland. In the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have…

; wise from age and experience; hence, aged; old. [Obs.] A very grave, state bachelor, my dainty one; He's wise in years, and of a temperate warmth. Ford. You are too wise in years, too full of counsel, For my green experience. Ford.