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
see also:
spanish bayonet yucca alorifolia spanish daggers spanish bean bean spanish black 
spanish broom spartium junceum spanish brown spanish buckeye ungnadia speciosa 
spanish burton double spanish burton spanish chalk spanish cress lepidium cadamines 
spanish curlew spanish elm cordia gerascanthus spanish feretto spanish flag 
sebastichthys rubrivinctus spanish fly blister beetle blister cantharis 
spanish fox spanish grass esparto spanish juice spanish leather 
cordwain spanish mackerel scomber colias chub mackerel big-eyed mackerel 
bull mackerel scomberomorus maculatus spanish main spanish moss tillandsia 
spanish needles bidens bipinnata spanish nut iris sisyrinchium spanish potato 
potato spanish red spanish reef spanish sheep spanish white 
spanish windlass