"Dactylet" is a word in ENGLISH

A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, …

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / …

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by …

A finger or toe; a digit.

The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.

A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.

Dactylic meters.

Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.

A writer of dactylic verse.

An inflammatory affection of the fingers.

Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly …

Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of …

Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been …

Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of …