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ESCUCHAR. _Span._ To listen. _Escuchad_! "Listen!"
ESCUELA. _Span._ A school.
ESO. _Span._ That. _Que es eso_? "What's that?"
ESPAnA. _Span._ Spain. See i. 341.
ESPAnOL. Spanish.
ESPINAL, ESPINAR. _Span._ A th.o.r.n.y thicket; place of thorns.
ESPINGARDA. _Span._ and _Port._ A musket.
ESPINHEIRO. _Port._ A thorn-tree.
ESTADEA. _Port._ ESTADAInA. _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 _compana_ 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._ ESTREMEnO. _Span._ An inhabitant of the province of Estremadura.
EUSCARRA. Basque. Used by Borrow (ch. x.x.xvii.) 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.
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 18301840, of a disaffected or factious person; a rebel; a Carlist.
FaILTE. _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.
f????.
FATO. _Port._ A herd; a mult.i.tude. Span. _hato_.
FELOUK, FELOQUE. _Eng._ A boat, felucca. Arab. _faluka_, _falak_ = s.h.i.+p.
FERIOUL. _Arab._ A sort of shawl thrown over the shoulders. Arab.
_farwal_.
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.
FONDA. _Span._ Hotel. According to Diez, from Latin _funda_, a sling, or a purse, which has also given the French _bourse_ and Spanish _bolsa_, an a.s.sembly of paying persons. See POSADA.
FORA. _Port._ and _Gal._ Outside, without.
FORO, FOROS. _Rom._ City, or town. P. ii. 393; Pp. 234; M. vii. 53.
FORTE. _Port._ Strong.
FREGONA. _Span._ A scullery maid.
FRIOLERA. _Span._ A trifle. Lat. _futilitas_.
FUENTE. _Span._ A fount, spring.
FUERON. _Span._ They were. From _ser_.
FUEROS. _Span._ Local privileges.
FUNCION. _Span._ A solemnity; festival; public a.s.semblage of people to do or see some important act. In military language, an action; then colloquially, "a row." The barbarous English adaptation, _function_, is convenient, and is rapidly gaining ground.
GABARDINE. _O. Eng._ A long coat, or cloak, usually applied to the distinctive dress worn by the Jews under compulsion. Said to be from the Spanish and Old French _gaban_, a great coa.r.s.e cloak with a hood, a word itself supposed to be connected with _capa_.
GABICOTE. _Rom._ Book. Borrow seems the only authority for this word.
J. has _gascote_. P. ii. 145.
GABINe. _Rom._ A Frenchman. P. i. 54, ii. 145.
GACHAPLA. _Rom._ A couplet, in poetry. Span. _copla_. P. ii. 41.
GACHo. _Rom._ Any one who is not a gypsy; the same as Rom. _busno_. P.
ii. 129; Pp. 235; M. vii. 53; McR. 93.
GALERA. _Span._ A long cart without springs; the sides are lined with matting, while beneath hangs a loose open net, as under the _calesinas_ of Naples, in which lies and barks a horrid dog, who keeps a cerberus watch over iron pots and sieves, and suchlike gypsy utensils, and who is never to be conciliated.-Ford's _Spain_, Introd. p. 37.
