Bible Dictionaries
Dainty

　　DA'INTY, a.

　　1. Nice pleasing to the palate of exquisite taste delicious as dainty food. 2. Delicate of acute sensibility nice in selecting what is tender and good squeamish soft luxurious as a dainty taste or palate a dainty people. 3. Scrupulous in manners ceremonious. 4. Elegant tender soft pure neat effeminately beautiful as dainty hands or limbs. 5. Nice affectedly fine as a dainty speaker. DA'INTY, n.

　　1. Something nice and delicate to the taste that which is exquisitely delicious a delicacy. Be not desirous of dainties, for they are deceitful meat. Proverbs 23

　　2. A term of fondness. Why, that's my dainty. Shak.