PPage 161
- English Word Peerage Definition The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.
- English Word Peerdom Definition Peerage; also, a lordship.
- English Word Peered Definition of Peer
- English Word Peeress Definition The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
- English Word Peerie Definition Alt. of Peery
- English Word Peering Definition of Peer
- English Word Peerless Definition Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.
- English Word Peert Definition Same as Peart.
- English Word Peerweet Definition Same as Pewit (a & b).
- English Word Peery Definition Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.
- English Word Peevish Definition Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
- English Word Peevish Definition Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
- English Word Peevish Definition Silly; childish; trifling.
- English Word Peevishly Definition In a peevish manner.
- English Word Peevishness Definition The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
- English Word Peevit Definition Alt. of Peewit
- English Word Peewit Definition See Pewit.
- English Word Peg Definition A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
- English Word Peg Definition 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.
- English Word Peg Definition One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.