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Epidictic Epidictic Ep`i*dic"tic, Epidictical Ep`i*dic"tic*al, a. [L.
epidictius. See Epideictic.]
Serving to explain; demonstrative.
Epidictical Epidictic Ep`i*dic"tic, Epidictical Ep`i*dic"tic*al, a. [L.
epidictius. See Epideictic.]
Serving to explain; demonstrative.
Epididymitis Epididymitis Ep`i*did`y*mi"tis, n. [NL. See Epididymis, and
-itis.] (Med.)
Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of
gonorrhea.
lepidine Iridoline I*rid"o*line, n. [Iridescent + L. oleum oil.]
(Chem.)
A nitrogenous base C10H9N, extracted from coal-tar naphtha,
as an oily liquid. It is a member of the quinoline series,
and is probably identical with lepidine.
Lepidine Lepidine Lep"i*dine (l[e^]p"[i^]*d[i^]n or *d[=e]n), n.
(Chem.)
An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine, and
obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.
lepidium Cadamines Spanish Span"ish, a.
Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
Spanish bayonet (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Yucca
alorifolia) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is
also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern
United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.
Spanish bean (Bot.) See the Note under Bean.
Spanish black, a black pigment obtained by charring cork.
--Ure.
Spanish broom (Bot.), a leguminous shrub (Spartium
junceum) having many green flexible rushlike twigs.
Spanish brown, a species of earth used in painting, having
a dark reddish brown color, due to the presence of
sesquioxide of iron.
Spanish buckeye (Bot.), a small tree (Ungnadia speciosa)
of Texas, New Mexico, etc., related to the buckeye, but
having pinnate leaves and a three-seeded fruit.
Spanish burton (Naut.), a purchase composed of two single
blocks. A double Spanish burton has one double and two
single blocks. --Luce (Textbook of Seamanship).
Spanish chalk (Min.), a kind of steatite; -- so called
because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
Spanish cress (Bot.), a cruciferous plant (lepidium
Cadamines), a species of peppergrass.
Spanish curiew (Zo["o]l.), the long-billed curlew. [U.S.]
Spanish daggers (Bot.) See Spanish bayonet.
Spanish elm (Bot.), a large West Indian tree (Cordia
Gerascanthus) furnishing hard and useful timber.
Spanish feretto, a rich reddish brown pigment obtained by
calcining copper and sulphur together in closed crucibles.
Spanish flag (Zo["o]l.), the California rockfish
(Sebastichthys rubrivinctus). It is conspicuously
colored with bands of red and white.
Spanish fly (Zo["o]l.), a brilliant green beetle, common in
the south of Europe, used for raising blisters. See
Blister beetle under Blister, and Cantharis.
Spanish fox (Naut.), a yarn twisted against its lay.
Spanish grass. (Bot.) See Esparto.
Spanish juice (Bot.), licorice.
Spanish leather. See Cordwain.
Spanish mackerel. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A species of mackerel (Scomber colias) found both in
Europe and America. In America called chub mackerel,
big-eyed mackerel, and bull mackerel.
(b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright
yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly
esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes
erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under
Mackerel.
Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern
portion of the Caribbean Sea, together with the contiguous
coast, embracing the route traversed by Spanish treasure
ships from the New to the Old World.
Spanish moss. (Bot.) See Tillandsia.
Spanish needles (Bot.), a composite weed (Bidens
bipinnata) having achenia armed with needlelike awns.
Spanish nut (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Iris Sisyrinchium)
of the south of Europe.
Spanish potato (Bot.), the sweet potato. See under
Potato.
Spanish red, an ocherous red pigment resembling Venetian
red, but slightly yellower and warmer. --Fairholt.
Spanish reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a
jib-headed sail.
Spanish sheep (Zo["o]l.), a merino.
Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by
pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white
pigment.
Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope
wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to
serve as a lever.
Lepidium campestre Yellowseed Yel"low*seed`, n. (Bot.)
A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).
Lepidium latifolium Dittander Dit*tan"der, n. [See Dittany.] (Bot.)
A kind of peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium).
Lepidium sativum Peppergrass Pep"per*grass`, n. (Bot.)
(a) Any herb of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially
the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium
sativum; -- called also pepperwort. All the species
have a pungent flavor.
(b) The common pillwort of Europe (Pilularia globulifera).
See Pillwort.
Lepidium sativum Cress Cress (kr[e^]s), n.; pl. Cresses (kr[e^]s"[e^]z). [OE.
ces, cresse, kers, kerse, AS. cresse, cerse; akin to D. kers,
G. kresse, Dan. karse, Sw. krasse, and possibly also to OHG.
chresan to creep.] (Bot.)
A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves
have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and
antiscorbutic.
Note: The garden cress, called also peppergrass, is the
Lepidium sativum; the water cress is the Nasturtium
officinale. Various other plants are sometimes called
cresses.
To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.
--Goldsmith.
Bitter cress. See under Bitter.
Not worth a cress, or ``not worth a kers.' a common old
proverb, now turned into the meaningless ``not worth a
curse.' --Skeat.
Parepididymis Parepididymis Par*ep`i*did"y*mis, n. [NL. See Para-, and
Epididymis.] (Anat.)
A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the
epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be
a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.
Trepidity Trepidity Tre*pid"i*ty, n.
Trepidation. [R.]
