Look up: dactyl

1. Dactyl
   A foot consisting of three syllables where the first is long or stressed and the second two are short or unstressed e.g. as in 'MURmuring'.
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2. dactyl
   [n] - a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
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3. Dactyl
   Dac'tyl noun [ Latin dactylus , Greek da`ktylos a finger, a dactyl. Confer Digit .] 1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (— ⌣ ⌣), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed...
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4. dactyl
   1. A poetical foot of three sylables (y e e), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. Tegmine, E. Mer'ciful; so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. ... Alternative forms: dactyle. ... 2. <zoology> A finger ...
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5. dactyl
   noun a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
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6. dactyl
   (dak´tәl) digit.
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7. Dactyl
   • (n.) A finger or toe; a digit. • (n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean. • (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer6ciful; -- so called from the s...
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8. dactyl
   metrical foot consisting of one long (classical verse) or stressed (English verse) syllable followed by two short, or unstressed, syllables. ... [2 related articles]
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9. dactyl
   dactyl A finger, digit, or toe.
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10. dactyl
    Type: Term Pronunciation: dak′til Synonyms: digit
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11. Dactyl
    In poetry, a dactyl is a foot consisting of one long followed by two short syllables, or, in English, one accented and two unaccented, as happily.
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12. dactyl
    a metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones / ' ~ ~ /. Examples of dactylic words are 'comedy' and 'higgledy,' and of largely dactylic poems Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and Thomas Hood's 'The Bridge of Sighs.' Longfellow's Evangeline is written...
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13. dactyl
    a hollow, nodular to cylindrical protuberance, somewhat resembling a swollen isidium, bounded by a cortex, often opening at the apex to expose the medulla.
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14. dactyl
    In poetry: one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables.
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15. dactyl
    the median claw at the ventrodistal tip of the telotarsus of the leg. The dactyl is smaller than the ungues (tarsal claws).
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16. Dactyl
    (mythology) In Greek mythology, the `Dactyls` (from Greek Δάκτυλοι "fingers") were the archaic mythical race of small phallic male beings associated with the Great Mother, whether as Cybele or Rhea. Their numbers vary, but often they were ten spirit-men so...
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17. Dactyl
    (poetry) A `dactyl` (Gr. δάκτυλος dáktulos, “finger”) is a foot in meter in poetry. In quantitative verse, such as Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. In accentual verse...
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