Definition of Dactyli

1. dactylus [n] - See also: dactylus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dactyli

dacryopyorrhoea
dacryorrhoea
dacryostenosis
dacryphilia
dactinomycin
dactyl
dactyl-
dactylagra
dactylalgia
dactylar
dactylectomies
dactylectomy
dactyledema
dactylet
dactylets
dactyli (current term)
dactyli ology
dactylic
dactylic rhyme
dactylic rhymes
dactylics
dactylies
dactyliography
dactyliology
dactyliomancy
dactylist
dactylitis
dactylo-
dactylocampsis
dactylocampsodynia

Literary usage of Dactyli

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report on the Manufacture of Iron: Addressed to the Governor of Maryland by John Henry Alexander, Maryland Topographical engineer (1840)
"56) refers the discovery, upon the authority of Hesiod, one of the oldest Greek writers, to the Idaean dactyli; but the diverse processes and ..."

2. Bibliotheca Classica: Or, A Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms by John Lemprière, John David Ogilby (1839)
"Others identify the Cabiri with the Curetes, Corybantes, and dactyli; to which Faber adds the Dioscuri, ..."

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