{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ Mex. Sp., fr. Sp. alfiler pin. ] Same as Alfilaria. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

/mhw>, a. [ Cf. NL. arillatus, F. arillé. ] Having an aril. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., dim. of bandera banner. See Banner, and cf. Banderole. ] A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Sp. barrilla. ] 1. (Bot.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) (a) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. (b) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copper barilla (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also Barilla de cobre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Brilliancy. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Brilliant. ] The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ It. See Brilliant, a. ] (Mus.) In a gay, showy, and sparkling style. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., prawn. ] (Zool) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., a small room. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The private audience chamber of a king. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., small thin bark, Peruvian bark, dim. of cáscara bark. ] (Bot.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cascarilla bark (or
Cascarilla) (Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Man.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ex- + arillate. ] (Bot.) Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. fibrillæ [ NL. See Fibril. ] A minute thread or fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of of pertaining to fibrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with fibrils; fringed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being reduced to fibers. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ An African word; found in a Greek translation of a treatise in Punic by Hanno, a Carthaginian. ] (Zool.) A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.

n. [ F. See Grill, v. t. ] The act of grilling; also, that which is grilled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Hydraulic Eagin.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Guerrilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., lit., a little war, skirmish, dim. of guerra war, fr. OHG. werra discord, strife. See War. ] 1. An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term guerrilla is the diminutive of the Spanish word guerra, war, and means petty war, that is, war carried on by detached parties; generally in the mountains. . . . A guerrilla party means, an irregular band of armed men, carrying on an irregular war, not being able, according to their character as a guerrilla party, to carry on what the law terms a regular war. F. Lieder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Bot.) A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or Perilla Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of muslin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. zarzaparrilla; zarza a bramble (perhaps fr. Bisc. zartzia) + parra a vine, or Parillo, a physician said to have discovered it. ] (Bot.) (a) Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax. (b) The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to many other plants and their roots, especially to the Aralia nudicaulis, the wild sarsaparilla of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Piercing; sharp; thrilling. [ Obs. ] “His thrillant spear.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The oyster catcher. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. zorilla, zorillo, dim. of zorra, zorro, a fox: cf. F. zorille. ] (Zool.) Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks. [ Written also zoril, and zorille. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The best-known species (Ictonyx zorilla) has black shiny fur with white bands and spots. It has anal glands which produce a very offensive secretion, similar to that of the skunk. It feeds upon birds and their eggs and upon small mammals, and is often very destructive to poultry. It is sometimes tamed by the natives, and kept to destroy rats and mice. Called also mariput, Cape polecat, and African polecat. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to the American skunk. [ 1913 Webster ]