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Webster 1913 Edition
Daint
Daint
,Noun.
[See ]
Dainty
, Noun.
Something of exquisite taste; a dainty.
[Obs.]
– Adj.
Dainty.
[Obs.]
To cherish him with diets
daint
. Spenser.
Definition 2024
daint
daint
See also: dain't
English
Adjective
daint (comparative more daint, superlative most daint)
- (obsolete) Dainty.
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
- to cherish him with diets daint, / She cast to bring him, where he chearen might [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
Adverb
daint (not comparable)
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) dent
Etymology
From Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.
Noun
daint m (plural daints)