Properly, soft; whence, delicate; tender; dainty; sweet or very pleasant to the taste; as a nice bit; nice food.

Delicate; fine; applied to texture, composition or color; as cloth of a nice texture; nice tints of color.

Accurate; exact; precise; as nice proportions; nice symmetry; nice workmanship; nice rules.

Requiring scrupulous exactness; as a nice point.

Perceiving the smallest difference; distinguishing accurately and minutely by perception; as a person of nice taste; hence,

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.

Over scrupulous or exact. Curious, not knowing; not exact, but nice.

Delicate; scrupulously and minutely cautious. The letter was not nice, but full of charge of dear import. Dear love, continue nice and chaste.

Fastidious; squeamish. And to taste, think not I shall be nice.

Delicate; easily injured. How nice the reputation of the maid!

Refined; as nice and subtle happiness.

Having lucky hits.

Weak; foolish; effeminate.

Trivial; unimportant. To make nice, to be scrupulous.