Dactylic: Definition and part of speech

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Dactylic

  1. n. Dactylic meters.
  2. a. Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
  3. n. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.

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.

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