Vocabulary : Dacotahs to Dactyliomancy

Dacotahs : Same as Dacotas.
Dactyl : A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. ;; A finger or toe; a digit. ;; The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
Dactylar : Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic. ;; Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.
Dactylet : A dactyl.
Dactylic : Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses. ;; A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics. ;; Dactylic meters.

Dactylioglyph : An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments. ;; The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.
Dactylioglyphi : The art or process of gem engraving.
Dactyliography : The art of writing or engraving upon gems. ;; In general, the literature or history of the art.
Dactyliology : That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving. ;; That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings.
Dactyliomancy : Divination by means of finger rings.

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