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Spruceness. [Slang, Eng.] Pegge (1814).

A wooden peg for hanging things on. Wright.

s in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept. Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields. Lowell.

To clear of molehills. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.

n many reptiles, corresponding to the odontoid process. -- Odontoid process, or Odontoid peg (Anat.), the anterior process of the centrum of the second vertebra, or axis, in birds and mammals. See Axis.

Nice; careful. [Obs.] was too warm on picking work to dwell. Dryden. Picking peg. (Weaving) See Picker, n., 3.

articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast. Milton.

, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs. [Written also pilliewinkles.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

ooth (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.

ub (Euonymus Europæus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

An instrument consisting of a woodmen 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.

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.

A scamp; a scapegrace. [Spelt also scallawag.] [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

The pegasus.

e root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

Stubble. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.

To joggle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Pegge.

us), and other species. Lemon, or French, sole (Zoöl.), a European species of sole (Solea pegusa). -- Smooth sole (Zoöl.), the megrim.

ay 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.

A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock. Spigot and faucet joint, a joint for uniting pipes, formed by the insertion of the end of one pipe, or pipe fitting, into a socket at the end of another.