| Dactyl |
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. merb6ciful;
so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. |
| Dactyl |
n. |
A finger or toe; a digit. |
| Dactyl |
n. |
The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean. |
| Dactylar |
a. |
Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic. |
| Dactylar |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean. |
| Dactylet |
n. |
A dactyl. |
| Dactylic |
a. |
Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses. |
| Dactylic |
n. |
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics. |
| Dactylic |
n. |
Dactylic meters. |
| Dactylioglyph |
n. |
An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments. |
| Dactylioglyph |
n. |
The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem. |
| Dactylioglyphi |
n. |
The art or process of gem engraving. |
| Dactyliography |
n. |
The art of writing or engraving upon gems. |
| Dactyliography |
n. |
In general, the literature or history of the art. |
| Dactyliology |
n. |
That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving. |
| Dactyliology |
n. |
That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings. |
| Dactyliomancy |
n. |
Divination by means of finger rings. |
| Dactylist |
n. |
A writer of dactylic verse. |
| Dactylitis |
n. |
An inflammatory affection of the fingers. |
| Dactylology |
n. |
The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers;
a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb. |
| Dactylomancy |
n. |
Dactyliomancy. |
| Dactylonomy |
n. |
The art of numbering or counting by the fingers. |
| Dactylopterous |
a. |
Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards. |
| Dactylotheca |
n. |
The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds. |
| Dactylozooid |
n. |
A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora. |
