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Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.

Space. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners. Wilhelm.

e trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained. And figs from standard and espalier join. Pope.

The common sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa), an Old World leguminous forage plant.

A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.

A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The…

Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.

See Feldspar.

See Feldspathic.

See Fluorite.

Capable of being grasped.

Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.

Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.

A Spanish idiom or mode of speech. Keightley.

To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.

An imagined space having more than three dimensions.

A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.

A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.