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Sea Dragon :: Sea dragon () The pegasus.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

Bibliopegist :: Bibliopegist (n.) A bookbinder.

Pegasoid :: Pegasoid (a.) Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

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

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

Harmaline :: Harmaline (n.) An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts..

Scapegoat :: Scapegoat (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others..

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

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

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..

Grace :: Grace (n.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc..

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

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