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Definition of Dactyls

Dactyl
Dactyl Dac"tyl, n. [L. dactylus, Gr. da`ktylos a finger, a dactyl. Cf. Digit.] 1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (--- [crescent] [crescent]), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. t["e]gm[i^]n[e^], E. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.] 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Meaning of Dactyls from wikipedia

- Look up dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dactyl may refer to: Dactyl (mythology), a legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a metrical unit of verse...
- sneeze. The first published collection of double dactyls was Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, edited by Anthony Hecht and John Hollander. Many...
- the line are dactyls; the sixth a trochee. Stephen Fry quotes Robert Browning's poem "The Lost Leader" as an example of the use of dactylic metre to great...
- In Gr**** mythology, the Dactyls or Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the archaic mythical race of male beings...
- six feet, each of which is either a dactyl (– u u) or a spondee (– –). The first four feet can either be dactyls, spondees, or a mix. The fifth foot can...
- named after the mythical creatures called dactyls, who, according to Gr**** mythology, lived on Mount Ida. Dactyl's orbit around Ida is not precisely known...
- Dactylic metre is any meter primarily composed of dactyls (long-short-short, or stressed-unstressed-unstressed). It may refer to: Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic...
- Gr****: Ἄκμων means 'anvil, pestle') in Gr**** mythology, was one of the Dactyls, ****ociated with the anvil, or perhaps the Corybantes. He was the son of...
- an elegiac couplet. It consists of two halves, each consisting of two dactyls, for which spondees can be substituted in the first half only, followed...
- Idaean craters are named after famous caves. Dactylian craters are named after the mythological Dactyls. USGS: Ida nomenclature USGS: Dactyl nomenclature...