the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain
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the people of Spain
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of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain
<adj.pert> Spanish music
Spanish \Span"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
{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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), the California rockfish ({Sebastichthys rubrivinctus}). It is conspicuously colored with bands of red and white.
{Spanish fly} (Zo["o]l.), 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}. (Zo["o]l.) (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} (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Spanish \Span"ish\, n. The language of Spain.
The KIO has earlier changed and stopped the flow of funds to Spanish assets. A spokesman for Grupo Torras, the KIO's holding company in Spain, said yesterday: 'We cannot make Prima viable in the present environment'.
But last year, Spanish sparkling wine sales in the U.S. sank 10%, to around 17 million bottles, according to agency data.
He vowed to his mother that he would sing at a Spanish song festival, and Iglesias kept his vow in 1968.
'Our dedication is now to our work, not to remembering the past.' High-level corruption and financial misdemeanours appear set to keep the centre-stage in Spanish politics.
The generals each headed the National Information Center, the disbanded secret police force known by its Spanish acronym CNI.
Gaviria was particularly critical of the country's largest guerrilla group, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, known by its Spanish acronym as the FARC.
Mr. Conde and another Spanish businessman together control about 3% of Montedison stock.
Five members of Congress asked President Reagan on Wednesday to pardon Conan Owen, the Annandale, Va., photographer freed from a Spanish prison after serving time for what U.S. officials say was a wrongful drug trafficking conviction.
Under Spanish tax laws, ownership in excess of 90 per cent allows the parent institution to consolidate results. The disposal of the Acerinox interests is the first Banesto divestment to be managed by JP Morgan.
Volkswagen and the Madrid government yesterday came close to an agreement in negotiations over state aid for Seat, the German vehicle group's crippled Spanish subsidiary.
A Belgian supermarket ordered 3,000 hectolitres of Rioja from a Spanish company.
A Majorca police spokesman, who would not give his name in keeping with Spanish custom, said it was expected the U.S. request for extradition would be made and acted upon within the legal limit of 80 days.
Spain has other demands that are more reasonable, such as an increase in its own voting weight to equal that of the other big countries, and a right for Spanish fishermen to fish in Norwegian waters when Norway joins.
And Arizona earlier this year formed a data base of craftsmen schooled in the art of restoring intricate Spanish facades on adobe structures, among other detail work.
He said an undetermined number of Spanish policemen would be sent to Havana to protect the embassy.
Correspondents from Spanish and West German television said state-owned television and telephone companies refused to transmit images of the violence overseas.
The Incas were the most powerful group in the area at the time of the Spanish conquest in the 1530s.
In the East room ceremony, Bush watched a group of children from Toledo, dressed in traditional Spanish colonial garb, dance to mariachi music.
For now, because of the Gibraltar government's rejection of anything smacking of a Spanish takeover, there is a lull in negotiations between Spain and Britain on the colony's future.
It would be one of his lasting regrets if he were not able to finish the modernisation of the Spanish economy with the same dispatch.
Lorenzo, then 32, a Harvard MBA and son of Spanish immigrants from Queens, N.Y., was the carrier's youngest president.
Although Spanish is the official language, Quechua and Aymara are widely spoken in rural areas and in major cities.
The legion was originally based there with the purpose of keeping an eye on King Hassan II of Morocco, who in the mid-1970s successfully and peacefully invaded Spanish Sahara and recovered the territory.
The Spanish newspapers were so convinced of a Labour victory that many of them claimed Mr Kinnock had won in their first edition stories.
He has learned Spanish in the past few years in his travels but still has an interpreter standing by for his appearances here.
Tabacalera, the Spanish national tobacco monopoly, announced it would give the Soviets 200,000 packs of Ducado cigarettes.
In July it agreed to pay around Dollars 250m for Tudor, a Spanish battery maker.
They blame international traffickers who are offering a high-quality product to capture a wider share of the Spanish market.
But earnings at Spanish banks have suffered from a war to lure depositors with high interest rates, and Banesto's decision to hold its dividend could lead competitors to do the same.
The bar in the poop deck (which takes its name from the early Spanish habit of lining the deck with puppet-like models of saints) has pictures of pirates and their flags.