curious (meaning uncertain in some passages)
1.
anxious, concerned
Cym. I. vi. 191
“ . . . To have
them in safe stowage”
; causing or involving care Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 527
“ business,”
Troil. III. ii. 68.
2.
particular,
fastidious, nice Shr. IV. iv.
36,
All'sW. I. ii. 20
“rather than in
haste,”
Sonn. xxxviii. 13,
Compl. 49
“ secrecy”
; careful in observation
Rom. I. iv. 31
“curious eye.”
3.
made with care,
skilfully wrought, dainty, delicate 3H6 II. v. 53,
Lr. I. iv. 35
“a tale,”
Cym. V. v. 362
“a most mantle,”
Per. I. i. 16, I. iv. 43, Ven. 734.
4.
adv. delicately,
nicely
LLL. I. i. 247
“-knotted
garden,”
Lucr. 1300
“too
curious-good.”
