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from The Century Dictionary.
- In classical antiquity, a class of mythical beings, guardians of the infant Zeus, inhabiting Mount Ida in Phrygia or in Crete, to whom the discovery of iron and the art of working it were ascribed.
- noun Plural of
dactylus .
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