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

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.

Peg :: Peg (n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained..

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

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

Pegador :: Pegador (n.) A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

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.

Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

Micropegmatite :: Micropegmatite (n.) A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).

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

Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2..

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

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..

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