Index of English words, starting with "da"

(1) - Dactyl (n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
(2) - Dactyl (n.) A finger or toe; a digit.
(3) - Dactyl (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. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.

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

(1) - Dactylitis (n.) An inflammatory affection of the fingers.