Jewelry worn on a lapel

June 2024 · 2 minute read
•To peen.•To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.•A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.•Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.•Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.•That which resembles a pin in its form or use•A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.•A linchpin.•A rolling-pin.•A clothespin.•A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.•The tenon of a dovetail joint.•One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.•The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.•Mood; humor.•Caligo. See Caligo.•An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.•The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.•To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

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