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Theorbo :: Theorbo (n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes..

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.

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

Scapegoat :: Scapegoat (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others..

Knag :: Knag (n.) A wooden peg for hanging things on.

Pinnywinkles :: Pinnywinkles (n. pl.) An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs..

Grace :: Grace (n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc..

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

Parapegm :: Parapegm (n.) An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place..

Pegged :: Pegged (imp. & p. p.) of Pe.

Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely..

Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by jumping, as in draughts..

Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus..

Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks..

Melanorrhoea :: Melanorrhoea (n.) An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish..

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

Scapegrace :: Scapegrace (n.) A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless..

Pegging :: Pegging (n.) The act or process of fastening with pegs.

Axis :: Axis (n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon..

Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..

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