peg 
peg (|><'g). [< ^"' : - /"'.'/.'/''' i"'oi>. < *>'. i>i<n/ 
= Dim. //"/. :i spike. :i secondary form of Sw. 
Dan. /"/.'. pike; nil., and in K. , ., 
lii'i'liaps directly, of Celtic origin: 
cf. \V. pig, 11 peak, point, f'orn. ///, 
a prick, \V. /".</"/', n pivot 
Shoemakers' 
pegs, glued to 
i I'.'|"T rib- 
txm for feeding 
., 
machine. 
:i pivot, pin, spindle, pole or axis: 
sei' /!//.', pike*.'] 1. A pointed 
pin of wood, metal, or other ma- 
terial. Specifically (a) Ineani., a point- 
ed piece of wuuil ilrivcn into a m>red hole 
tu fasten hum 1 1 - IT < it her uui.ilvMirk ; a tree- 
nail. (6) In*/i"'H"M //*;/, a M nail pin of tough 
\vi>uil it-i it in secilriiiK the uppers to the 
sule leal her r in building up the heel. 
Slim- ].ru u e II"U l.n -i U m:l'lr "I mi I it 
and in a variety of shapes, some being screws. See also 
cuts under peg-float, pegger, and peg-strip, (e) In musi> 
cid instruments of the stringed group, a pin of wood or 
metal to which one end of a string is fastened, and which 
may be turned round in its socket so as to tighten or 
loosen tho strinK'n tension, and thus alter Its tone. (Also 
called ninin'j i" ! m iimiin /"!.) In instruments of the 
viol family the pegs are In the head, while in the dulci- 
mer, harp, pianoforte, and similar Instruments they are 
set along one side of the frame. 
O, you are well tuned now ! 
But I'll set down the ;;/ that make this music, 
As honest as I am. Shak., Othello, II. 1. 208. 
What did he doe with her fingers so small ? . . . 
He made him peggs to his violl withttll. 
The Miller awl Yhr King's Daughter (Child's Ballads, 
III. 358). 
(d) A pin which serves to transmit power or perform any 
other function in machinery, etc. (e) A projecting pin on 
which to hang anything. (/) A small wedge-shaped pro- 
jecting piece of hard wood fixed to a jewelers' board, upon 
which the workman performs most of his operations, (a) 
A pin used in the game of cribbage to mark the points. (A) 
A pin thrust or driven into a hole, and generally left pro- 
jecting, as a tent-peg, used in fastening a tent to the 
ground, or a vent -///. used to stop the vent of a cask. 
2. A foot or leg. Compare pin 1 in like sense. 
[Colloq. and humorous.] 
The army-surgeons made him limbs ; 
Said he, " They're only pegs ; 
But there 's as wooden members quite 
As represent my legs ! " 
//"<'. Faithless Kelly Gray. 
3. A pin or point fastened to a pole or string, 
used to spear or harpoon turtles; a turtle-peg. 
4. The uag or wooden ball used in the game 
of shinty. [Scotland and north of Ireland.] 
5. A stroke; a blow. 
Many cross-buttocks did I sustain, and pegs on the 
stomach without number. 
Smollett, Roderick Random, xxvii. 
6. A drink made of soda-water poured upon 
spirit, usually whisky or brandy. The name 
originated with British officers in India. 
I saw Ohyrkin's servant enter his tent with bottles and 
Ice, and I suspected the old fellow was going to cool his 
wrath with a peg, and would be asleep most of the morn- 
Ing. F. M. Crair/ortl, Sir. Isaacs, x. 
Muzzle the pegt. Same as muinble-the-peg. To drink 
. 
to pegs, to drink the draught marked in a peg-tankard. 
To take a peg lower, to take down a peg, to lower: 
humiliate; degrade; take the conceit out of. 
We . . . took your grandees rfnicn a pea. 
S. Butler, Hudlbras, II. IL 522. 
peg (peg), t'.; pret. and pp. pegged, ppr. peg- 
.'/'".</ [< P e .ff l i "] I. trans. 1. To thrust or 
drive pegs into for tho purpose of fastening; 
fasten by means of pegs; furnish with pegs: 
as, to peg boots or shoes. 
If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, 
And peg thco in his knotty entrails till 
'I him hast howl'd away twelve winters. 
Shot., Tempest, i. 2. 295. 
If they [branches] do not comply well in the laying of 
them down, they must be peyg'd down with a hook or two. 
Miller, Hardener's Diet (under layer). 
2. To spear or harpoon (the green turtle) by 
means of the turtle-peg. 3. To fix (a market 
price), and prevent fluctuation, by buying all 
that is offered at that price, thus preventing 
any lower quotations from being made, or sell- 
ing all that the market will take at that price, 
thus preventing higher quotations, [istork- 
exchange slang.] 
II. iiilniHS. 1. To work or strive persistently: 
generally followed by away or alonij. [Colloq.] 
"He's been here ever so long," says Mr. Brice, who of- 
ficiated as butler, "pegging aicay at the olives and maca- 
roons." Thackeray, Philip, vii. 
President Lincoln, when asked what we should do if 
the war should last for years, replied, " We'll keep pegging 
""<!</.' C. Q. Lefand, Abraham Lincoln, XL 
The rain keeps pegging auviy, in a steady, unmistakable, 
business-like fashion. ' IK. Black, House-Boat, vii. 
We hare gradually worked and pegged along year by 
year, and by strict economy and hard work Increased our 
funds. American Hebrew, XXXIX. 52. 
2. To use tlu> turtle-pel;: us, to /"'/for a living. 
To peg out. () In rriWw.', t" win the game by mak- 
ing the last holes, durim: the course of the play, Before 
showing the hands, (ft) To depart ; die. (Slang. | 
4350 
pegador (pcg'a-dor). n. [< Sii. "pii/attor, < Jie- 
'/<"', stick, cling: see /""/"] The sucking-fish, 
l-'.i-ln in -i.i iiiniri'iiiix. and other oclu'iu'idids. 
peganite (pe'a-nit ), . [< Gr. mryavov, rue (see 
/'linn n nit, + -iii-.] A hydrous phosphate of 
aluminium occurring in crystalline crusts of a 
green color. 
Pegantha (pr-gan'tlift), . [NL., < Gr. in/y//, 
water, a fount, + diflof, flower.] The typical 
sreims of tho family Priimithida: llnrrkel, 1871). 
Peganthidae fpf-gan'ttii-dA). . pi. [NL., < 
I'rilHiitlui + -idie.\ A family of narcomedu- 
sans: synoiiynious with l'i>ii/j-i niidx. They 
are without radial canals, ami without gastral 
pouches in the siilnimbrella, but have otopor- 
pee. ll:ii i-li I. 
Peganum (peg'a-num), . [NL. (Linnaeus. 
1737), < li.}>eganon, < Gr. vf/yavm>, rue, so called 
from the appearance of the thick fleshy leaves, 
< irrryviivat, oe stiff or solid.] A genus of plant s 
of the order Rutacete and the tribe Rutest, dis- 
tinguished from related genera by the 12 to 15 
stamens. There are 4 species, one widely dispersed 
over the Mediterranean region and wanner parts of Asia, 
the others natives of central Asia and Mexico. They are 
branching round-stemmed odorous herbs, with alternate 
leaves, and large white solitary flowers opposite the leaves, 
followed by a globular :i to 4-celled fruit. See harmaline, 
harinel, and tutnnin. 
Pegasean (pe-ga'se-an), a. [< L. Pegaseus, per- 
taining to Pegasus, < Pegasus, Pegasus: see 
Pegasus.'] 1. Of or pertaining to Pegasus; 
swift; speedy. Feltham. 2. Relating to po- 
etry; poetic. Andrews. 
O ye Pegarian Nymphs, that, hating viler things, 
Delight in lofty Hills, and In delicious Springs. 
DrayUm, Polyolblon, v. 83. 
Pegasidae (pe-gas'i-de), w. pi. [NL., < Pegasus 
+ -ids?.] A family of fishes of strange forms, 
typified by the genus Pegasus. They have the body 
entirely covered with 
bony plates, ankylos- 
ed on the trunk, and 
movable on the tail ; 
the margin of the 
upper Jaw formed by 
the intemiaxillarles 
and their cutaneous 
extensions down- 
ward to the end of 
the maxillarles; the 
gill-cover formed by 
a large operculum, 
the Interoperculum 
befngalong flue bone 
hidden below the 
gill-plate ; one rudi- 
mentary branchioste- 
gal ; one short dorsal 
and one anal fin op- 
posite each other, 
pectorals horizontal, 
and ventral tins sub- 
abdominal and nar- 
row. The species are 
confined to the Indo- 
Chinese seas. They 
have been variously 
approximated to the lophobranchs, to the acanthoptery- 
glans and especially the mail-cheeked fishes, and to the 
hemlbranchs. They have been also regarded as repre- 
senting a peculiar suborder or even order (//(/porfomviw). 
They are known asyfytng sea-hornet. 
Pegasus (peg'a-sus), n. [= L. Pegnsus, Pega- 
sos, < Gr. n^yao-of, a fabled horse (see def.) 
whose name was traditionally derived from 
mirf, a spring, having come into existence at 
the fountains of Ocean.] 1. Inclass. w;/fA.,the 
winged horse of the Muses, sprung from the 
blood of Medusa when slain by Perseus. With a 
stroke of his hoof he was fabled to have caused to well 
forth, on Mount Helicon in Boeotla, the poetically inspir- 
ing fountain Hippocrene. He was ultimately changed Into 
a constellation. 
2. One of the ancient northern constellations. 
The figure represents the forward half of a winged horse. 
peggy 
3. [NL.] In ii-lilli., tlie typical gentix of /'<;/"- 
xi<l;i: containing lislies of stranov form. Migge*- 
tive of the winged horse of classic mythologx . 
peg-fiched (pcg'licht), H. A game played in the 
west of Knglaud, in which the players are fur- 
nished with 
sharp - poi ni 
eil sticks, one 
of which is 
stuck in the 
ground, and 
the attempt 
is made to 
dislodge it liy 
throwing the 
pthersticksat 
it crosswise. 
When a stick 
falls, the owner 
has to ran to a 
prescribed dis- 
i.i- .. - ii-.i '-i k 
while the rest, 
placing the stick 
upright, endea- 
vor to beat It 
into the ground 
up to the very 
top. IlaUiwell. 
peg-float 
(peg'flot), n. 
In shocmak- 
iiiii. a tool 
for rasping 
the project- 
Pen float. 
a, drive-wheel ; *, pinion bevel-wheel tjntein : 
J, crank ; f, pitman ; /, licU-crank ; f, connect, 
ing-rod ; A, float. Turning f causes'torectpnj- 
cate vertically and A to reciprocate horizon- 
tally. The boot or shoe it ilipped over t, K> 
that the float. A, enters the Interior to rasp away 
the projecting ends of pegs. 
Hying Sea-horse (PegasMS laternaritts). 
ing ends of pegs from the insides of shoes. 
pegger (peg'er), n. [< pegi + -*.] 1. Otic 
who fastens with 
pegs. 2. In shof- 
making, a machine 
fordrivingthe pegs 
in a shoe ; a snoe- 
pegging machine. 
Bhoe-peggers are made 
in a variety of forms, 
of which the essential 
parts are a feeding de- 
vice for delivering the 
pegs to the machine, a 
driving-mechanism re- 
sembling a nailer, and a 
contrivance for hold- 
ing up the last with 
the shoe upon It Some 
peggers have also ar- 
rangements for cut- 
ting oft the ends of 
pegs that may project 
through the shoe-sole. 
Peggers using wooden 
pegs in a continuous 
band, or pegs of wire, 
cut off the pegs auto- 
matically and feed the 
single pegs or screws 
to the driving-mecha- 
nism. The operation of 
placing the pegs In the 
shoe Is always under 
the control and guid- 
ance of the operator. 
See also cut under peg- 
ftrip. 
pegging (peg'ing), 
w. [Verbal n. of 
pegt, r.] 1. The 
act of fastening 
with a peg or pegs, 
or of furnishing 
with pegs. 2. 
Pegs collectively, 
material for 
Pegger, or 
a, f, and tf, peraintr-Jack and iu 
parts, pivoted at o to the foot-lever /. 
the latter being counterbalanced at t, 
to hold the last in position when at 
work as shown; A. standard which sup- 
ports the punnng machinery ; ' ami/ 
vertically reciprocating mechanism for 
inserting the pegs, actuated by gearim; 
m; /', treadle, which is connected with 
a vertical rod Dehind A for running the 
machine into gear : f , peg-strip, from 
which the pegs are automatically cut by 
mechanism in / when the strip is placed 
therein. 
or 
pegs. 3. A beating; a drubbing. 4. Thepro- 
cessor method of catching turtles with the peg. 
5. Dogged or plodding perseverance in work. 
[Colloq.] 
pegging-awl (peg'ing-al), n. In shoemaking, 
a short square-bladed awl for making holes 
into which pegs are to be driven. 
pegging-Jack (peg'ing-jak), n. An apparatus 
for holding a boot or shoe in various positions 
while it is being pegged, 
pegging-machine (peg'ing-ma-shen'), n. In 
shoemakinff, a pegger. 
pegging-rammer (peg'ing-ram'6r), n. In found- 
ing, a pointed rammer with which the sand i 
packed in making molds. 
peggy 1 (peg'i), a. [<i>tg l + -}/ 1 .] Likeapegor 
pegs ; of tne form of a peg. 
The lower incisors are peggy and pointed. 
Vuotn, Med. Diet., p. 1585. 
Die t instrll.ition Pegasus. 
tin- renter uf the constellation is about 20 degrees north 
of the equator, and four bright stars In it form a large 
square. 
Peggy- (peg'i), M.; pi. peggies (-iz). 
' nlii 
[Prob. in 
'both' senses a familiar use of the fern, name 
Peggy, dim. of Peg, a var. of Meg, Mag. abbr. 
of Margaret. Cf. mag 1 , madgel, et.] 1. Any 
