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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..

Peg :: Peg (v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task..

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

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..

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.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Pegging :: Pegging (n.) The act or process of fastening with pegs.

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..

Pegtatoid :: Pegtatoid (a.) Resembling pegmatite; pegmatic.

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

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..

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