DACTYL
\dˈakta͡ɪl], \dˈaktaɪl], \d_ˈa_k_t_aɪ_l]\
Definitions of DACTYL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
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A poetical foot of three sylables (- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegmn, E. mer6ciful; - so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
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The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
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A poetical foot of three sylables (- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegmn, E. mer6ciful; - so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
By Noah Webster.
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A metrical foot, consisting of one long or accented, and two short or unaccented, syllables.
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Dactylic.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A poetical foot, consisting of three syllables, the first long and the other two short, like the joints of a finger, as dualist.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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