dandy

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners; a fop.
2. n. Something very good or agreeable.
3. n. Nautical See yawl.
4. adj. Suggestive of or attired like a dandy; foppish.
5. adj. Fine; good.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A man who attracts attention by the unusual finery of his dress and a corresponding fastidiousness or display of manner; a man of excessive neatness and primness in his attire and action; an exquisite; a fop.
2. n. Something very neat or dainty. —
3. n. An accessory and diminutive appendix or attachment to a machine.
4. n. In tin-plate manuf., a running-out fire for melting pig-iron, the stack being built upon an open framework of iron, so that the melter has access to his fire from all sides. Synonyms Fop, Beau, etc. See coxcomb.
5. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dandy or fop; foppish: as, dandy manners.
6. Neat; dainty; trim; gay.
7. n. A small glass: as, a dandy of punch.
8. n. A boatman of the Ganges. Also spelled dandie and dandee.
9. n. A conveyance used in India, consisting of a strong cloth slung like a hammock to a bamboo staff, and carried by two or more men. The traveler can either sit sidewise or lie on his back.
10. n. Nautical, a vessel rigged as a sloop, and having also a jigger-mast.
11. n. Same as dandy-roller.
12. n. See dengue.
13. n. A roller placed on a machine in advance of another, to perform a preliminary operation.
14. n. See dandy-roller.
15. n. An open-work basket or vessel, used cither to carry fuel, or to confine fuel in a larger grate, or to hold pig-iron in a furnace-hearth for preliminary heating.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Like a dandy, foppish.
2. adj. Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
3. adj. Almost first rate.
4. n. A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
5. n. UK, nautical A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
2. n. A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
3. n. A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
4. n. A dandy roller. See below.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
2. n. a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
3. adj. very good