1) Digit 2) Finger or toe 3) Foot 4) Foot in the iliad 5) Greek legendary creature 6) Innocent, but not guilty 7) Jefferson in poetry class 8) Metrical foot 9) Metrical unit 10) Poetic foot 11) Poetic measure 12) Ptero suffix
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1) Finger 2) Toe
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[mythology] In Greek mythology, the DactylsPronunciation-needed (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 Cabiri or the Korybantes that t...
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[poetry] A dactyl (δάκτυλος, dáktylos, `finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. In accentual verse, often used in English, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables...
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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 in dactylic hexameter, the metre of Homer and of ...
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• (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 similarity of its arrangement to that of the joint....
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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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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 ...
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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 or toe; a digit. The claw or terminal joint of a l...
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(dak´tәl) digit.
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A three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses. Examples of words in Engl
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A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones / ' ~ ~ /. Exampl
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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 by two unaccented; as, Latin
tëgmĭn&#...Found on
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dak′til Synonyms: digit
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In poetry: one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables.
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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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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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long-short-short
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n] - a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
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dactyl A finger, digit, or toe.
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In Greek mythology, a legendary being that lived on Mount Ida.
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a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, a stressed beat followed by two unstressed beats (' --).
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noun a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
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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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a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
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