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Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight.

Indecency :: Indecency (n.) That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy.

Kickshaws :: Kickshaws (n.) A fancy dish; a titbit; a delicacy.

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action..

Obscene :: Obscene (a/) Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures..

Immodesty :: Immodesty (n.) Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency..

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.

Effeminacy :: Effeminacy (n.) Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men..

Calipee :: Calipee (n.) A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy..

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like..

Nicety :: Nicety (n.) Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.

Ungentle :: Ungentle (a.) Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh.

Morbidezza :: Morbidezza (n.) A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy..

Whitebait :: Whitebait (n.) The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England..

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame..

Subtlety :: Subtlety (n.) Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination.

Tenuity :: Tenuity (n.) Refinement; delicacy.

Diatom :: Diatom (n.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use..

Profanation :: Profanation (v. t.) The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy..

Preraphaelitism :: Preraphaelitism (n.) The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject..

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