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One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10.

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.

A trebuchet. [Obs.]

A sharp steel spear attached to a cord, used in taking sea turtles. -- Turtle pegging.

To remove a peg or pegs from; to unfasten; to open. Shak.

A constellation south of Pegasus.

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.

unt Helicon; - - fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

s fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.

A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n.,

tc.; a kind of lancet. Fleam tooth, a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth. Knight.

A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.

A male fallow deer gelded. Pegge (1814).

An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.

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

A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.