Dactyl : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Dactyl	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Dactyl
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dactyl n a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates Synonym(s): digit, dactyl
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dactyl \Dac"tyl\, n. [L. dactylus, Gr. da`ktylos a finger, a dactyl. Cf. {Digit}.] 1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables ([f5] [de] [de]), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. t[89]gm[icr]n[ecr], E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also {dactyle}.] 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.