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Raddle :: Raddle (n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom..

Sea Dragon :: Sea dragon () The pegasus.

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

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

Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

Peg :: Peg (n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg..

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

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

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

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

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

Bibliopegist :: Bibliopegist (n.) A bookbinder.

Bibliopegistic :: Bibliopegistic (a.) Pertaining to the art of binding books.

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..

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

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