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Zygodactyli :: Zygodactyli (n. pl.) Same as Scansores.

Dactylic :: Dactylic (a.) Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses..

Spondee :: Spondaical (a.) 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..

Leptodactylous :: Leptodactylous (a.) Having slender toes.

Dactyliology :: Dactyliology (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving.

Metre :: Metre (n.) 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..

Scutch Grass :: Scutch grass () A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.

Dactylomancy :: Dactylomancy (n.) Dactyliomancy.

Chirology :: Chirology (n.) The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

Didactylous :: Didactylous (a.) Having only two digits; two-toed.

Thecodactyl :: Thecodactyl (n.) Any one of a group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed..

Dactylic :: Dactylic (n.) Dactylic meters.

Heterodactyl :: Heterodactyl (a.) Heterodactylous.

Unciform :: Unciform (n.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.

Zygodactylae :: Zygodactylae (n. pl.) The zygodactylous birds. In a restricted sense applied to a division of birds which includes the barbets, toucans, honey guides, and other related birds..

Doob Grass :: Doob grass () A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States..

Sapphic :: Sapphic (a.) 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..

Porpita :: Porpita (n.) 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..

Hexameter :: Hexameter (a.) Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees..

Syndactylous :: Syndactylic (a.) Syndactilous.

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