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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..

Scapegallows :: Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

Spill :: Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile..

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

Bibliopegy :: Bibliopegy (n.) The art of binding books.

Theorbo :: Theorbo (n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes..

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