NICE, a. [G. To eat dainties or sweetmeats] 1. Properly, soft; whence, delicate; tender; dainty; sweet or very pleasant to the taste; as a nice bit; nice food.2. Delicate; fine; applied to texture, composition or color; as cloth of a nice texture; nice tints of color.3. Accurate; exact; precise; as nice proportions; nice symmetry; nice workmanship; nice rules.4. Requiring scrupulous exactness; as a nice point.5. Perceiving the smallest difference; distinguishing accurately and minutely by perception; as a person of nice taste; hence, 6. Perceiving accurately the smallest faults, errors or irregularities; distinguishing and judging with exactness; as a nice judge of a subject; nice discernment.Our author happy in a judge so nice.7. Over scrupulous or exact.Curious, not knowing; not exact, but nice.8. Delicate; scrupulously and minutely cautious.The letter was not nice, but full of charge of dear import. Dear love, continue nice and chaste.9. Fastidious; squeamish.And to taste, think not I shall be nice.10. Delicate; easily injured.How nice the reputation of the maid!11. Refined; as nice and subtle happiness.12. Having lucky hits. [Not used.]13. Weak; foolish; effeminate.14. Trivial; unimportant.To make nice, to be scrupulous.
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