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Pin :: Pin (n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings..

Unpeg :: Unpeg (v. t.) To remove a peg or pegs from; to unfasten; to open.

Scapegallows :: Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.

Arpeggio :: Arpeggio (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played..

Pegging :: Pegging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pe.

Trepeget :: Trepeget (n.) A trebuchet.

Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.

Pegm :: Pegm (n.) A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.

Harmaline :: Harmaline (n.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts..

Pin :: Pin (n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

Peg :: Peg (n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon..

Pegroots :: Pegroots (n.) Same as Setterwort.

Scapegoat :: Scapegoat (n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness..

Pegasean :: Pegasean (a.) Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry..

Harmine :: Harmine (n.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance..

Sea Dragon :: Sea dragon () The pegasus.

Hippocrene :: Hippocrene (n.) A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration..

Bibliopegy :: Bibliopegy (n.) The art of binding books.

Pin :: Pin (n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt..

Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) Graphic granite. See under Granite.

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