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The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2]: Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the PeninsulaBorrow, George

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The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2]: Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula

Name: The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2]: Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
Author: Borrow, George

Borrow, George

Borrow, George, 1803-1881 -- Travel -- Spain; Spain -- Description and travel; Spain -- History -- 19th century

ERREGUIÑA.  _Basque._  Queen.  Borrow is mistaken in connecting this word
with Sanscrit.  It is simply the Lat. _regina_.

ERUDITO.  _Span._ and _Port._  Learned.

ESCAPADO.  _Span._ and _Port._  Escaped, a runaway.

ESCLIVITUD.  _Span._  Slavery.

ESCOCÉS.  _Span._  Scotch.

ESCONDIDO.  _Span._ and _Port._  _Adj._ hidden.

ESCOPETA.  _Span._ and _Port._  A gun.

ESCRIBANO.  _Span._  A notary, or his clerk.  Lit. a writer.

ESCUCHAR.  _Span._  To listen.  _Escuchad_!  “Listen!”

ESCUELA.  _Span._  A school.

ESO.  _Span._  That.  _Que es eso_?  “What’s that?”

ESPAÑA.  _Span._  Spain.  See i. 341.

ESPAÑOL.  Spanish.

ESPINAL, ESPINAR.  _Span._  A thorny thicket; place of thorns.

ESPINGARDA.  _Span._ and _Port._  A musket.

ESPINHEIRO.  _Port._  A thorn-tree.

ESTADEA.  _Port._  ESTADAIÑA.  _Gal._  Dimin. ESTADINHA.  (1) A skeleton,
or death’s-head; a nocturnal procession of the spirits of the dead.  (2)
A witches’ “sabbath;” for which last the Galician _compaña_ is also used.

ESTALAGEM.  _Port._  An inn.

ESTAR.  _Span._ and _Port._  To be.

ESTARIPEL.  _Rom._  A prison.  P. ii. 246; Pp. 146.  SC. 141.

ESTRANGERO.  _Span._  Strange, foreign.

ESTREMOU.  _Rom._  ESTREMEÑO.  _Span._  An inhabitant of the province of
Estremadura.

EUSCARRA.  Basque.  Used by Borrow (ch. xxxvii.) for the Basque name of
their own tongue; more commonly, _Escualdun_, _Escualdunac_; a word in
any case of very uncertain origin.  See Burke’s _Hist. of Spain_, vol. i.
App. I., THE BASQUES.

EXEMPLO.  _Span._ and _Port._  Example, pattern.  _Por exemplo_, for
instance.

EXTENDERSE.  _Span._  To extend, stretch.

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FABRICA.  _Span._ and _Port._  Manufactory.

FACCIOSO.  _Span._  As an adjective, factious; more often used by Borrow
as a substantive, with the special signification, in the years 1830–1840,
of a disaffected or factious person; a rebel; a Carlist.

FÁILTE.  _Irish_.  Welcomes.

FAJA, FAXA.  _Span._ and _Port._  A thick waist-band, usually of silk,
often red, and a characteristic portion of the dress of a great majority
of Spaniards.  The Indian _kamarband_.  From the Lat. _fascia_, a girth,
or band.

FANGO.  _Span._  Mire, mud.

FAROL.  _Span._ and _Port._  Strictly speaking, a lantern; used by Borrow
for FARO, a lighthouse.  They are, of course, equally the ancient Grk.
φάρος.

FATO.  _Port._  A herd; a multitude.  Span. _hato_.

FELOUK, FELOQUE.  _Eng._  A boat, felucca.  Arab. _faluka_, _falak_ =
ship.

FERIOUL.  _Arab._  A sort of shawl thrown over the shoulders.  Arab.
_farwāl_.

FIDALGO.  _Port._  A gentleman.  The Spanish hidalgo = _filius alicujus_,
the son of some one.

FILIMICHA.  _Rom._  The gallows.  Found in Borrow, and J.; Pott, ii. 394,
simply quotes it from the former.

FINO.  _Span._ and _Port._  Fine, excellent, sharp.

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