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A dandy roller. See below. Dandy brush, a yard whalebone brush. -- Dandy fever. See Dengue. -- Dandy line, a kind of fishing line to which are attached several crosspieces of whalebone which carry a hook at each end. -- Dandy roller, a roller sieve used in machines for making paper, to press out water from the pulp,…

A bantam fowl.

To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.

Like a dandy.

The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness. Byron.

A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.

A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.

A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

A preëminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.

the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.

To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.

A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations. [Recent] The social dude who affects English dress and English drawl. The American.

site attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.

One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.

One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b).