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Webster 1913 Edition
Dacapo
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Daˊca′po
.[It., from [the] head or beginning.]
(Mus.)
From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; – indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.
☞ In America the name is given to several related fishes of the genera
Squalius
, Minnilus
, etc. The black-nosed dace is Rhinichthys atronasus
the horned dace is Semotilus corporalis
. For red dace, see Redfin
.