Spanish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spanish \Span"ish\, a.
     Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spanish \Span"ish\, n.
     The language of Spain.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Spanish
       adj : of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people
             of Spain; "Spanish music"
       n 1: the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the
            countries colonized by Spain
       2: the people of Spain [syn: {Spanish people}]