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Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Harmine :: Harmine (n.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance..

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

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

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..

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

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

Pegmatitic :: Pegmatitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite..

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

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

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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