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Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards. Spanish bayonet(Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Yucca alorifolia) with rigid spine-tippedleaves. The name is also applied to other similar plants of theSouthwestern 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 darkreddish brown color, due to the presence of sesquioxide of iron.-- Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa) ofTexas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but having pinnateleaves 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 becauseobtained from Aragon in Spain.-- Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (lepidium Cadamines), aspecies of peppergrass.-- Spanish curiew (Zoöl.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.] -- Spanishdaggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.-- Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree (CordiaGerascanthus) furnishing hard and useful timber.-- Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained bycalcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.-- Spanish flag (Zoöl.), the California rockfish (Sebastichthysrubrivinctus). It is conspicuously colored with bands of red andwhite.-- Spanish fly (Zoöl.), a brilliant green beetle, common in thesouth of Europe, used for raising blisters. See Blister beetle underBlister, 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. (Zoöl.) (a) A species of mackerel (Scombercolias) found both in Europe and America. In America called chubmackerel, big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel. (b) In the UnitedStates, a handsome mackerel having bright yellow round spots(Scomberomorus maculatus), highly esteemed as a food fish. The nameis sometimes erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. underMackerel.-- Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern portion ofthe Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous coast, embracing theroute traversed by Spanish treasure ships from the New to the OldWorld.-- Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia.-- Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed (Bidens bipinnata)having achenia armed with needlelike awns.-- Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium) of thesouth of Europe.-- Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under Potato.-- Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian red, butslightly yellower and warmer. Fairholt.-- Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a jib-headedsail.-- Spanish sheep (Zoöl.), a merino.-- Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk bypulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment.-- Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope woundabout it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever.