Respectable; virtuous.
Of a person: friendly, attractive.
Pleasant, satisfactory.
Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly
Used to signify approval.
Used to signify a job well done.
niceness.
Nicely.
To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.
Prominent; conspicuous.
Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
Depicted in a leaping posture.
Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9
1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193
On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.