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On of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet. Shak.

The offspring of a Spaniard and an Indian; a Spanish-Indian mestizo. [Sp. Amer.]

A Spanish gypsy.

An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote (1561-1627), among others of his time, was noted.

Among Spanish Americans, a foreigner, esp. an Englishman or American; -- often used as a term of reproach.

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

inction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. 1.

A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.

A Spanish idiom or mode of speech. Keightley.

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

An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun. (b) pl.

A small Spanish horse; a genet.

- Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italians, who speak languages principally derived from Latin. Latin Union, an association of states, originally comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which, in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, pr…

80 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.

A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eight of a dollar (or 12

An extensive plain with or without vegetation. [Spanish America]

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. J. Stevens.

Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

e skin, and a peculiar bitterish flavor. Manzanillas are commonly pitted and stuffed with Spanish pimientos.