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

Setterwort :: Setterwort (n.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots..

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

Scalawag :: Scalawag (n.) A scamp; a scapegrace.

Aquarius :: Aquarius (n.) A constellation south of Pegasus.

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

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

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

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

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

Peg :: Peg (n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

Prickwood :: Prickwood (n.) A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree..

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..

Peg :: Peg (n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase To take one down peg..

Bibliopegic :: Bibliopegic (a.) Relating to the binding of books.

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

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..

Pegomancy :: Pegomancy (n.) Divination by fountains.

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

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