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To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.

In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.

In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.

small plane for planing rounded objects. -- Modeling wax, beeswax melted with a little Venice turpentine, or other resinous material, and tinted with coloring matter, usually red, -- used in modeling.

The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.

Having a nice sense of smell. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.

A sycophantic servant. [Obs.] Silly ducking observants, That stretch their duties nicely. Shak.

See Orichalch. Costly oricalche from strange Phoenice. Spenser.

Too exquisite; too exact or nice; too careful.

To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. [Obs.] He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies. Fuller.

minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.

ther; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions. No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass. Dryden.

an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. Build him a pedestal, and say, "Stand there!" Cowper.

rsuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper.

To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

Nice; careful. [Obs.] was too warm on picking work to dwell. Dryden. Picking peg. (Weaving) See Picker, n., 3.

To be squeamishly nice about one's food. Swift.