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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Deft \Deft\, a. [OE. daft, deft, becoming, mild, gentle, stupid
     (cf. OE. daffe, deffe, fool, coward), AS. d[ae]ft (in
     derivatives only) mild, gentle, fitting, seasonable; akin to
     dafen, gedafen, becoming, fit, Goth. gadaban to be fit. Cf.
     {Daft}, {Daff}, {Dapper}.]
     Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat. [Archaic or
     Poetic] ``The deftest way.'' --Shak. ``Deftest feats.''
     --Gay.
  
           The limping god, so deft at his new ministry. --Dryden.
  
           Let me be deft and debonair.             --Byron.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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