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.n. Something very neat or dainty. —n. An accessory and diminutive appendix or attachment to a machine.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.Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dandy or fop; foppish: as, dandy manners.Neat; dainty; trim; gay.n. A small glass: as, a dandy of punch.n. A boatman of the Ganges. Also spelled dandie and dandee.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.n. Nautical, a vessel rigged as a sloop, and having also a jigger-mast.n. Same as dandy-roller.n. See dengue.n. A roller placed on a machine in advance of another, to perform a preliminary operation.n. See dandy-roller.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.