DELICATE, a. L. Connected with delight to delight.
1. Of a fine texture fine soft smooth clear, or fair as a delicate skin.
2. Nice pleasing to the taste of an agreeable flavor as delicate food a delicate dish.
3. Nice in perception of what is agreeable dainty as a delicate taste and figuratively, nice and discriminating in beauty and deformity.
4. Nice accurate fine soft to the eye as a delicate color.
5. Nice in forms regulated by minute observance of propriety, or by condescension and attention to the wishes and feelings of others as delicate behavior or manners a delicate address.