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  1. Apt; fit; spruce; neat. [Archaic or Poetic] “The deftest way.” --Shak. “Deftest feats.”
     Let me be deft and debonair.   --Byron.
     The limping god, so deft at his new ministry.   --Dryden.
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  deft
       adj 1: quick and skillful in movement
       2: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a
          deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous
          of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: dexterous, dextrous]