Words that rhyme with reg

v 1: report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money" [syn: allege, aver, say]

v 1: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" [syn: beg, implore, pray] 2: make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities" [syn: solicit, beg, tap] 3: ask to obtain free; "beg money and food" 4: dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted; "beg the question"; "beg the point in the discussion"

n 1: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn: scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat] v 1: take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: fink, scab, rat, blackleg]

adj 1: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled] n 1: whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash [syn: moonshine, bootleg, corn liquor] 2: the part of a boot above the instep v 1: sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol; "They were bootlegging whiskey" 2: produce or distribute illegally; "bootleg tapes of the diva's singing"

n 1: angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog 2: a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway

n 1: a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed v 1: cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it" 2: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost [syn: dredge, drag] 3: remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

n 1: a small amount of residue

n 1: the boundary of a surface [syn: edge, border] 2: a line determining the limits of an area [syn: boundary, edge, bound] 3: a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box" 4: the attribute of urgency in tone of voice; "his voice had an edge to it" [syn: edge, sharpness] 5: a slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition" 6: the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something; "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge" v 1: advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car" [syn: edge, inch] 2: provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery" [syn: border, edge] 3: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on] 4: provide with an edge; "edge a blade"

n 1: animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds 2: oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food [syn: egg, eggs] 3: one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away" [syn: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg] v 1: throw eggs at 2: coat with beaten egg; "egg a schnitzel"

v 1: feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight 2: decorate with feathers; "fledge an arrow" [syn: fledge, flight] 3: grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already" [syn: fledge, feather]

n 1: the forelimb of a quadruped

n 1: a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes [syn: hedge, hedgerow] 2: any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change [syn: hedge, hedging] 3: an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging" [syn: hedge, hedging] v 1: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep] 2: hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge; "The animals were hedged in" 3: enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property" [syn: hedge, hedge in] 4: minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"

n 1: the quantity contained in a keg [syn: keg, kegful] 2: small cask or barrel

n 1: a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water [syn: ledge, shelf]

n 1: a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle 2: a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion 3: one of the supports for a piece of furniture 4: a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches" [syn: branch, leg, ramification] 5: the limb of an animal used for food 6: a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg [syn: peg, wooden leg, leg, pegleg] 7: a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg 8: (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack 9: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise" [syn: stage, leg]

n 1: East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed; source of two spices: nutmeg and mace [syn: nutmeg, nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans] 2: hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground

n 1: a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface [syn: peg, nog] 2: small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. [syn: peg, pin] 3: informal terms for the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks" [syn: pin, peg, stick] 4: a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg [syn: peg, wooden leg, leg, pegleg] 5: regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument 6: a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing [syn: peg, pin, thole, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock] v 1: succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" [syn: nail down, nail, peg] 2: pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into 3: fasten or secure with a wooden pin; "peg a tent" [syn: peg, peg down] 4: stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"

n 1: a deposit of personal property as security for a debt; "his saxophone was in pledge" 2: someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group 3: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event [syn: pledge, toast] 4: a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something; "an assurance of help when needed"; "signed a pledge never to reveal the secret" [syn: assurance, pledge] v 1: promise solemnly and formally; "I pledge that I will honor my wife" [syn: pledge, plight] 2: pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station" [syn: pledge, subscribe] 3: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail] 4: give as a guarantee; "I pledge my honor" 5: bind or secure by a pledge; "I was pledged to silence"

n 1: grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers

n 1: the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another v 1: proceed without interruption; in music or talk; "He segued into another discourse"

n 1: a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow [syn: sled, sledge, sleigh] 2: a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges [syn: maul, sledge, sledgehammer] v 1: transport in a sleigh 2: ride in or travel with a sledge; "the antarctic expedition sledged along the coastline"; "The children sledged all day by the lake" 3: beat with a sledgehammer [syn: sledgehammer, sledge]

n 1: any shape that is triangular in cross section [syn: wedge, wedge shape, cuneus] 2: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep] 3: a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation [syn: hacek, wedge] 4: a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe [syn: wedge heel, wedge] 5: (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole 6: something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them 7: a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object [syn: chock, wedge] v 1: put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" [syn: lodge, wedge, stick, deposit] [ant: dislodge, free] 2: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" [syn: wedge, squeeze, force]

n 1: large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals [syn: horsefly, cleg, clegg, horse fly]

n 1: the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros [syn: million, 1000000, one thousand thousand, meg]

n 1: a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost

n 1: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant [syn: vegetable, veggie, veg]