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in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.

Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

es, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration. Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace. Byron.

One who fastens with pegs.

The act or process of fastening with pegs.

A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Graphic granite. See under Granite.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.

Resembling pegmatite; pegmatic.

Divination by fountains. [R.]

Same as Setterwort.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

Relating to the binding of books. [R.]

A bookbinder.

Pertaining to the art of binding books. [R.] Dibdin.

The art of binding books. [R.]

A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic, a.

An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.