Dactyl

1. n. The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
2. n. A poetical foot of three sylables (– ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. merb6ciful; — so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.
3. n. A finger or toe; a digit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.