dactyl

1. 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. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. Source: opted

2. n. A finger or toe; a digit. Source: opted

3. n. The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean. Source: opted

4. n. a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables Source: wordnet

5. n. a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates Source: wordnet

6. 1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmînê, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.] 2. (Zoöl.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean. Source: webster

7. A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followedby two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L.tëgmînê, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of itsarrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written alsodactyle.] Source: adambom

8. n:100 n. a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables Source: ecdict

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