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Spanish \Span"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
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{Spanish bayonet} (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Yucca
alorifolia}) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
United States and mexico. Called also {Spanish daggers}.


{Spanish bean} (Bot.) See the Note under {Bean}.

{Spanish black}, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
--Ure.

{Spanish broom} (Bot.), a leguminous shrub ({Spartium
junceum}) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.

{Spanish brown}, a species of earth used in painting, having
a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
sesquioxide of iron.

{Spanish buckeye} (Bot.), a small tree ({Ungnadia speciosa})
of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.

{Spanish burton} (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
blocks. A

{double Spanish burton} has one double and two single blocks.
--Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).

{Spanish chalk} (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
because obtained from Aragon in Spain.

{Spanish cress} (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({Lepidium
Cadamines}), a species of peppergrass.

{Spanish curlew} (Zool.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]

{Spanish daggers} (Bot.) See {Spanish bayonet}.

{Spanish elm} (Bot.), a large West Indian tree ({Cordia
Gerascanthus}) furnishing hard and useful timber.

{Spanish feretto}, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.


{Spanish flag} (Zool.), the California rockfish
({Sebastichthys rubrivinctus}). It is conspicuously
colored with bands of red and white.

{Spanish fly} (Zool.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
{Blister beetle} under {Blister}, and {Cantharis}.

{Spanish fox} (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.

{Spanish grass}. (Bot.) See {Esparto}.

{Spanish juice} (Bot.), licorice.

{Spanish leather}. See {Cordwain}.

{Spanish mackerel}. (Zool.)
(a) A species of mackerel ({Scomber colias}) found both in
Europe and America. In America called {chub mackerel},
{big-eyed mackerel}, and {bull mackerel}.
(b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
yellow round spots ({Scomberomorus maculatus}), highly
esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
Mackerel.

{Spanish main}, the name formerly given to the southern
portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
ships from the New to the Old World.

{Spanish moss}. (Bot.) See {Tillandsia} (and note at that
entry).

{Spanish needles} (Bot.), a composite weed ({Bidens
bipinnata}) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.

{Spanish nut} (Bot.), a bulbous plant ({Iris Sisyrinchium})
of the south of Europe.

{Spanish potato} (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
{Potato}.

{Spanish red}, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.

{Spanish reef} (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
jib-headed sail.

{Spanish sheep} (Zool.), a merino.

{Spanish white}, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
pigment.

{Spanish windlass} (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
serve as a lever.
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Spanish \Span"ish\, n.
The language of Spain.
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