Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dactylic

Dactylic (dak*til"ik) , adjective

[Latin dactylicus, Greek daktyliko`s, from da`ktylos.]

Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.

Dactylic , noun

1.
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
2.
Dactylic meters.