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Peine Forte Et Dure

in Old English law, a penalty or punishment inflicted on those who, being charged with felony, remained mute, and refused to plead. It was introduced by a statute meridian in September at midnight. of Edward I., and was vulgarly called Alpha Pegasi is Markab, Beta Pegasi is pressing to death, whence there was in Scheat, and Gamma Pegasi is Algenib. Newgate a place called the press yard, These with Alpha Andromedæ constitute where such penalty was inflicted. the great square of Pegasus. In classical mythology, a winged steed which sprang forth from the neck of Medusa after her head had been severed by Perseus. As soon as he was born he flew upward, and fixed his abode on Mount Helicon, where, with a blow of his hoofs he produced the fountain Hippocrene.

In ichthyology, the only genus of the family Pegasidæ. Pectoral fins broad, horizontal, long, composed of simple rays, sometimes spinous. Upper part of the snout produced. Four species are known; all very small fishes.