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" To screw papal authority to the highest peg. Barrow. And took your grandess down a peg. Hudibras. Peg ladder, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces are inserted. -- Peg tankard, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions. "Drink down to your peg." Longfellow.…

Destruction; perdition. [Obs.] hudibras.

ey formed a united phalanx. Macaulay. The sheep recumbent, and the sheep that grazed, All huddling into phalanx, stood and gazed. Cowper.

Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." Hudibras.

To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

re; a longing. Though it have the pique, and long, 'Tis still for something in the wrong. Hudibras.

Height; stature. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Postulated. [Obs.] Hudibras.

A Presbyterian. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To render acid or pungent. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.

itical time. [Obs.] Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid. Hudibras.

To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.

tated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. Quaking for dread." Chaucer. She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. Sir P. Sidney.

To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. Shak. And left the limbs still quivering on the ground. Addison.

To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep. [Obs.] Causes and effects which I thus raff up together. Carew.

"[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. Hudibras. -- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. Addison.

Rule. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To rant. [R. & Obs.] Hudibras.

, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. Milton. 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. Hudibras.