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Pegasus (iou) and trinkum (iou)


Pegasus (iou)



Pegasus noun. LME.
[Latin from Greek Pegasos, the winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of the slain Medusa and later represented as the favourite horse of the Muses, from pege spring, fount.]
(The name of) a conspicuous constellation of the northern hemisphere, joined by one star to Andromeda. LME.
Heraldry. A charge representing a winged horse. M16.
fig. A flight of (esp. poetic) inspiration or genius. E17.
Shaftesbury I will allow you the Pegasus of the poets.
Zoology. A fish of the genus Pegasus or the family Pegasidae; = sea-moth s.v. SEA noun. Now only as mod. Latin genus name. M19.
Pe'gasean adjective of, pertaining to, or resembling the mythological Pegasus; swift; fig. poetic: L16.

trinkum (iou)



trinkum noun. Now dial. & colloq. M17.
[App. alt. of TRINKET noun with Latinized ending.]
A trinket.
Also trinkum-trankum noun L17.