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    dactyl
    Type: Term Pronunciation: dak′til Synonyms: digit
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=22797
    
    
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    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.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AD.HTM
    
    
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    Dactyl
    [poetry] A dactyl (Gr. δάκτυλος dáktulos, “finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. 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, such as English, it is a stressed syll...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyl_(poetry)
    
    
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    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 like the three Curetes, the C...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyl_(mythology)
    
    
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    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...
    Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic
    
    
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    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.
    Found op http://www.anbg.gov.au/glossary/webpubl/lichglos.htm
    
    
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    dactyl
    In poetry: one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables.
    Found op http://www.menrath-online.de/glossaryengl.html
    
    
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    Dactyl
    The first satellite of an asteroid to be discovered. Dactyl was found in orbit around Ida by the Galileo probe when it flew by the asteroid in 1993. The little moon, measuring 1.6 × 1.4 × 1.2 km, was about 100 km from its much larger companion when photographed. Interestingly, the spectra ...
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/Dactyl.html
    
    
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    dactyl
    the median claw at the ventrodistal tip of the telotarsus of the leg. The dactyl is smaller than the ungues (tarsal claws).
    Found op http://www.vaejovidae.com/Glossary.htm
    
    
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    dactyl
    1) 'poetry,' in poetry 2) Digit 3) Finger or toe 4) Foot 5) Foot in the iliad 6) Metrical foot 7) Metrical unit 8) Poetic foot 9) Poetic foot often used in ancient greek epic poems (
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