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To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.]

A style of four-legged table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period.

The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges. [Written also pinguin.] Arctic penguin (Zoöl.), the great auk. See Auk.

h obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.

malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. "Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms." Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." Burke.

By way of begging the question; by an assumption. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

transition from this method through simple conjugation to perfect sexual reproduction by egg and sperm in the higher forms. -- Phy`co*my*ce"tous (#), a.

Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.

To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. Boyle.

a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

llaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. -- Plum weevil (Zoöl.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisi…

To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. Bacon.

Pouched frog (Zoöl.), the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage. -- Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Zoöl.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket. -- Pouched mouse. (Zoöl.) See Pocket mouse, under Pocket.…

Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [Colloq.]

hose who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. [Obs.] Nares.

Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning.

The lower classes; beggars. "The Italian proletariate." J. A. Symonds.

An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvæ of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Pædogenesis.

ly hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope.