n. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three syllables one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; - so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]
- (Zool.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
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