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A difficult dance in two-four time characterized by graceful posturing, frequent pointing positions, and a great variety of steps, including the cross step and turning steps. The dance is of Spanish origin, and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango.

The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]

Of or pertaining to the Spatangoidea. -- n.

An order of irregular sea urchins, usually having a more or less heart-shaped shell with four or five petal-like ambulacra above. The mouth is edentulous and situated anteriorly, on the under side.

the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

l or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.

lowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.

A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.

A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.

- usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.