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

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..

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

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

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

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.) 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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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