Dear love, continue nice and chaste.
Donne.
A nice and subtile happiness.
Milton.
5. Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions;
distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully discriminating; as, a
nice taste or judgment. "Our author happy in a judge so nice." Pope.
"Nice verbal criticism." Coleridge.
6. Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on
account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished;
as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or
fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice
point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.
The difference is too nice Where ends the virtue, or begins the
vice.
Pope.
7. Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a nice party;
a nice excursion; a nice person; a nice day; a nice sauce, etc.
[Loosely & Colloquially]
To make nice of, to be scrupulous about. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn. -- Dainty; delicate; exquisite; fine; accurate; exact; correct;
precise; particular; scrupulous; punctilious; fastidious; squeamish;
finical; effeminate; silly.
Nice"ly adv. In a nice manner.
Ni"cene (?), a. [L. Nicaenus, fr. Nicaea Nice, Gr. &?;.] Of or
pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenical council
held there a. d. 325.
Nicene Creed (&?;), a summary of Christian faith, composed and adopted
by the Council of Nice, against Arianism, a. d. 325, altered and
confirmed by the Council of Constantinople, a. d. 381, and by
subsequent councils.
Nice"ness (?), n. Quality or state of being nice.
Ni"cer*y (?), n. Nicety. [Colloq.] Chapman.
Ni"ce*ty (?), n.; pl. Niceties (#). [OE. niceté foolishness.] 1. The
quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).
The miller smiled of her nicety.
Chaucer.
2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of
discrimination; precision.
3. A delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, distinction, or the
like; a minute distinction.
The fineness and niceties of words.
Locke.
To a nicety, with great exactness or accuracy.
Niche (?), n. [F., fr. It. nicchia, prop., a shell-like recess in a
wall, fr. nicchio a shellfish, mussel, fr. L. mytilus.] A cavity,
hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a
statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position,
literal or figurative.
Images defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone
wherein they are placed.
Evelun.
Niched. (&?;), a. Placed in a niche. "Those niched shapes of noble
mold." Tennyson.
Nick (&?;), n. [AS. nicor a marine monster; akin to D. nikker a water
spite, Icel. nykr, ONG. nihhus a crocodile, G. nix a water sprite; cf.
Gr. &?; to wash, Skr. nij. Cf. Nix.] (Northern Myth.) An evil spirit of
the waters.