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."

Peerie
(Peer"ie, Peer"y) a. [See 1st Peer, 2.] Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] "Two peery gray eyes." Sir W. Scott.

Peerless
(Peer"less) a. Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative. "Her peerless feature." Shak.

Unvailed her peerless light.
Milton.

—Peer"less*ly, adv. — Peer"less*ness, n.

Peert
(Peert) a. Same as Peart.

Peerweet
(Peer"weet) n. Same as Pewit

Peevish
(Pee"vish) a. [OE. pevische; of uncertain origin, perh. from a word imitative of the noise made by fretful children + -ish.]

1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth.

She is peevish, sullen, froward.
Shak.

2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

3. Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.]

To send such peevish tokens to a king.
Shak.

Syn. — Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful.

Peevishly
(Pee"vish*ly), adv. In a peevish manner. Shak.

Peevishness
(Pee"vish*ness), n. The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.

Syn. — See Petulance.

Peevit
(Pee"vit Pee"wit) n. (Zoöl.) See Pewit.

Peg
(Peg) n. [OE. pegge; cf. Sw. pigg, Dan. pig a point, prickle, and E. peak.]

1. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

2. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

3. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained. Shak.

4. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

5. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."

To screw papal authority to the highest peg.
Barrow.

And took your grandess down a peg.
Hudibras.

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