Noah Webster
Dactyl
DACTYL, noun [Gr. A finger; Latin probably a shoot.] A poetical foot consisting of three syllables, the first long, and the others short, like the joints of a finger; as, tegmine, carmine.
DACTYL, noun [Gr. A finger; Latin probably a shoot.] A poetical foot consisting of three syllables, the first long, and the others short, like the joints of a finger; as, tegmine, carmine.