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The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.
A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.
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Employing two hands; as, the two-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.
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Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
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Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
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A dactyl.
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Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.
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The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.
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Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.
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A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
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A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
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Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot.
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A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.
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A writer of dactylic verse.
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Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
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A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
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Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
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Dactylic meters.
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Dactyliomancy.
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Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
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