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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.

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..

Pegasoid :: Pegasoid (a.) Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

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..

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

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

Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Pegger :: Pegger (n.) One who fastens with pegs.

Bibliopegist :: Bibliopegist (n.) A bookbinder.

Pegmatitic :: Pegmatitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite..

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

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

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

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..

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