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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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Hatstand :: Hatstand (n.) A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc..

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

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

Scapegoat :: Scapegoat (n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness..

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

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

Spigot :: Spigot (n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock..

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

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..

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..

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

Float :: Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

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