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Shilling :: Shilling (n.) The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2..

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod..

Dispansion :: Dispansion (n.) Act of dispanding, or state of being dispanded..

Span :: Span (v. t.) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder..

Serape :: Serape (n.) A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico..

Spang :: Spang (n.) A bound or spring.

Real :: Real (n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system..

Overspan :: Overspan (v. t.) To reach or extend over.

Spangly :: Spangly (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light..

Peon :: Peon (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt..

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..

Arroba :: Arroba (n.) A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons..

Span :: Span (v. t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports..

Hispanicism :: Hispanicism (n.) A Spanish idiom or mode of speech.

Spangle :: Spangle (v. t.) To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate..

Spanworm :: Spanworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm..

Picaresque :: Picaresque (a.) Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer..

Quietist :: Quietist (n.) One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism..

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

Setter :: Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..

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