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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
daedal \dae"dal\, daedalian \daedal"ian\, a. l. daedalus
   cunningly wrought, fr. gr. ?; cf. ? to work cunningly. the
   word also alludes to the mythical daedalus gr. ?, lit.,
   the cunning worker.
   1. cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful;
      artistic; ingenious.
      1913 webster

            our bodies decked in our daedalian arms.
                                                  --chapman.
      1913 webster

            the daedal hand of nature.          --j. philips.
      1913 webster

            the doth the daedal earth throw forth to thee,
            out of her fruitful, abundant flowers. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. crafty; deceitful. r. --keats.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
daedal
     adj : complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal
           hand of nature"
     n : greek mythology an athenian inventor who built the
         labyrinth of minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned
         wings for himself and his sone icarus syn: daedalus
see also:
daedalus 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
125 moby thesaurus words for "daedal":
   byzantine, daedalian, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative,
   balled up, bicolor, bicolored, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever,
   colorful, colory, complex, complicated, confounded, confused,
   convoluted, coordinated, crabbed, crack, crackerjack, crazy,
   cunning, cute, deft, devious, dexterous, dextrous, dichromatic,
   diplomatic, divers-colored, elaborate, embrangled, entangled,
   excellent, expert, fancy, fouled up, good, goodish, gordian,
   graceful, handy, harlequin, implicated, ingenious, intricate,
   involuted, involved, kaleidoscopic, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian,
   labyrinthine, loused up, magisterial, many-colored, many-faceted,
   masterful, masterly, matted, mazy, meandering, medley, messed up,
   mixed up, motley, mucked up, multicolor, multicolored,
   multicolorous, multifarious, neat, no mean, parti-color,
   parti-colored, perplexed, politic, polychromatic, polychrome,
   polychromic, prismal, professional, proficient, quick, quite some,
   ramified, ready, resourceful, roundabout, screwed up, shot,
   shot through, skillful, slick, snarled, some, sophisticated,
   spectral, statesmanlike, stylish, subtle, tactful, tangled, tangly,
   the compleat, the complete, thunder and lightning, trichromatic,
   trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, twisted, two-tone, varicolored,
   variegated, versicolor, versicolored, virtuoso, well-done,
   workmanlike





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