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

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..

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

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.

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..

Trepeget :: Trepeget (n.) A trebuchet.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Raddle :: Raddle (n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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