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Machete :: Machete (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes..

Fandango :: Fandango (n.) A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced..

Mouille :: Mouille (a.) Applied to certain consonants having a liquid or softened sound; e.g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and –; in Portuguese, lh and nh..

Pataca :: Pataca (n.) The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.

Levy :: Levy (n.) A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d..

Guacho :: Guacho (n.) One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.

Congress :: Congress (n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years..

Ayuntamiento :: Ayuntamiento (n.) In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen..

Alcalde :: Alcalde (n.) A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc..

Arroba :: Arroba (n.) A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir..

Time :: Time (n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times..

League :: League (n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each..

Cid :: Cid (n.) An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish national hero, Ruy Diaz..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly..

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..

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

Signior :: Signior (n.) Sir; Mr. The English form and pronunciation for the Italian Signor and the Spanish Se–or.

Canyon :: Canyon (n.) The English form of the Spanish word Ca–on.

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..

Se–orita :: Se–orita (n.) A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also, a young lady..

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