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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In prosody, constituting or equivalent to a dactyl; pertaining to or characteristic of a dactyl or dactyls; consisting of dactyls: as, a dactylic foot; a dactylic spondee; dactylic rhythm or meter; dactylic verses.
  • noun A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls.
  • noun plural Meters which consist of a repetition of dactyls or of equivalent feet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls.
  • noun A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls.
  • noun Dactylic meters.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of or consisting of dactyls.
  • adjective of a dactyl.
  • noun a dactylic verse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or consisting of dactyls

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