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Aparejo :: Aparejo (n.) A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like..

Cob :: Cob (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d..

Spaniel :: Spaniel (n.) A cringing, fawning person..

Chica :: Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc..

Cantharidin :: Cantharidin (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms..

Maravedi :: Maravedi (n.) A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin..

Spanpiece :: Spanpiece (n.) The collar of a roof; sparpiece.

El Dorado :: El Dorado () A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America, reputed to abound in gold and precious stones..

Spank :: Spank (n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap.

Bejewel :: Bejewel (v. t.) To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle.

Spanaemic :: Spanaemic (a.) Of or pertaining to spanaemia; having impoverished blood.

Spangle :: Spangle (n.) A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress..

Filibuster :: Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855..

Outspan :: Outspan (v. t. & i.) To unyoke or disengage, as oxen from a wagon..

Spanned :: Spanned (imp. & p. p.) of Spa.

Garrote :: Garrote (n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted..

Romanic :: Romanic (n.) Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc..

Span :: Span (v. t.) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action..

Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents..

Esparto :: Esparto (n.) A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper..

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