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triaca magna
  39

Also teriaca, from the Greek therion theriou, fierce, was a composite of many ingredients of animal, vegetable and mineral 40 MDR; in some cases they reached 70 ) among those who stood out opium and honey, originally attributed to Andrómaco, doctor of Nero, who replaced lizard meat with the Viper. This preparation was used at the beginning as an antidote against poison, to be considered later in medieval medicine a panacea against all diseases with many discussions about its real value to very entrance modernity. The presence of the opium given somniferous, narcotic and analgesic properties. In some cases it was used as a completing element.

  
quinquilaire
  21

Quinquilaire: Aragon, Burgos and some areas of Castilla, quinquillero, quincallero, street vendor. Also cantamañanas, individual of low credibility and consideration social. Not me to be a quinquilaire.

  
penseque
  64

Sustantivación of the expressive beginning " thought to " which is usually disculpatorio of a mistake, negligence or carelessness in the performance of an action, that is the saying goes in Castile: worth more a posiacaso than a hundred penseques.

  
ñora
  46

Variety of not very large pepper and flattened a special taste, normally not spicy, from the region of Alicante and more exactly of Guardamar del Segura. It is usually dry in the Sun in the abundant sand dunes of this area and sold in riestras to spice up the paella or other dishes.

  
inania
  32

Inane is an adjective that means vain, empty, futile, fruitless, vacuous, vain, from the latin inane inanis. Inania is the neutral plural ( 41 useless things; Verba inania, empty words. Substantive inania or inania not the Academy recognizes it.

  
planta endémica
  25

It is the own and exclusive of a place or region, i.e. that can be found only in a natural way in that area. The word has Greek etymology:, inside and demos demou, village, place: that is within a place. Endemism is a term used not only Botany. Also the social sciences use it when they speak about endemic diseases or other endemic problems from somewhere.

  
ok en la guerra
  22

Anglicism which expresses conformity: Yes, vale, of agreement, I think either. In Madrid some young castellanizan it in okis so that it is not so dry. Seems to have origin military and 19th century, as the U.S. military ended its reports after some battles with these acronyms: or K. I.e., 0 killed, zero dead.

  
akelarre
  28

Word of Basque origin with varied etymology. I tend towards aker ( male goat ) and larre ( prado ) the meadow of the goat next to the cave of Zugarramurdi in Baztan ( Navarre ) where a car of faith against witches who allegedly met in the cave was held at the beginning of the 17TH century. Since then a coven is a gathering of witches with the goat, in popular belief encouraged by religious power. Also a collusion, conspiracy, conspiracy or meeting of conspirators or evil people live with evil intentions or go you know.

  
aberia
  28

aberia is incorrectly written, and should be written as "abelia" being its meaning:
Ornamental family of the Caprifoliaceae of abundant flowering shrub, very used in the gardens of Madrid, originating from Mexico and China where the British naturalist Clarke Abel brought it to Europe in the 19th century. The most widely used species is abelia grandiflora

  
coito a tergo
  34

Latinism which means in the back, sex from behind, way dog, to the pecorina, say the Italians. Latinos said coitus more ferarum, as on all fours or two animals, but from behind.

  
poner mirando para cuenca
  61

Have sex a tergo, behind. It seems that the origin of the expression is in the 15th century, when Philip the fair, the womanizing husband of Juana la Loca, went up to the tower with one of palace ladies who used to be basin to see far cities of the Kingdom. The Queen told him: go the tower with this lady to wear it facing basin. The guards knew to what went and extended the expression with that sense.

  
abrir la caja de pandora
  20

Pandora, ( which has all the 41 gifts; the Greek pas passa bread, everything and doron dorou, gift, gift, according to Greek mythology, was the first woman, created by Hephaestus by order of Zeus for giving it to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, as a punishment for having stolen fire from the gods to give it to the men to this. In love with Epimetheus married her, ignoring the advice of his brother not to accept any present of Zeus. The gods gave Pandora a mysterious jar ( then box ) as a wedding gift with the warning to never open it. Overcome by curiosity, Pandora opened it out all evils. Only hope remained closed. That hope is the last thing is lost. Open Pandora's box was for posterity as a symbol of the catastrophic consequences that can bring in a project or activity a seemingly insignificant but imprudent action.

  
guatines
  56

Plural of guatin, rodent histricomorfo ( similar to the Porcupine ) who lives near the water currents, from 2 to 5 kg in weight, of the family of the dasiproctidos, abundant in Central and South America, also called agouti, neque, picure, jochi, sereque, cherenga, internal, guatuza, cotuza, ( Dasyprocta guamara and ten species more ).

  
almud
  58

Measure of capacity unused for liquid and dry, from Hispanic Arabic ( 41 almudd; equivalent to 10 or 11 cubic decimetres, i.e. 10 or 11 litres, although not in all sites had the same value either as a measure of seeding. For example, in Albacete it was equivalent to half bushel, about 28 liters of capacity. Brought to America by the Spaniards, is it still in rural areas of Central America, Chile or Mexico.

  
swinger
  42

International movement of sexual exchange of couples, of the English to swing, change, based on the absence of taboos and full freedom, sincerity and mutual respect, seeking the satisfaction of sexual fantasies. Some consider this behavior as perverted and obsessed sex. Others consider it a normal without deception or moral taboos, that it does not hurt anyone and is therefore fully legitimate.

  
verguera
  27

Derived from the latin virga, virgae, Rod, branch, whip, Dick. In areas of Ávila and Castilla, willow, mimbrero or salguera, shrub or small of the Salicaceae 40 family tree; salix cinerea, salix purpurea, salix salviifolia )

  
cayado y callado,htm
  31

In Madrid and elsewhere in Spain have enough difficulty to distinguish the ll and the and. This is because the mispronunciation. The ll is pronounced by raising the tongue to touch in the sky of the mouth before finishing his vocalization. The countrymen Miguel Delibes, the vallisoletanos, do not have any difficulty to distinguish them. A crook is a walking stick normally wood and with a curve in the handle used by the shepherds and farmers and also bishops and Christian authorities for what are the pastors of the Church. However silent is the passive participle of the verb shut which means silence.

  
hipno
  67

Also hipñ-, hipnot - Hypnotherapy Hypnos is one deity lesser of Greek mythology which personifies the dream Greek prefixes derived from hypnos sleep, drowsiness, hypnou, dream of death which form words mostly from the field of psychology as hypnosis, hypnotic, hypnotic, hypnotize,

  
por fas o por nefas
  59

adverbial phrase cult originated in European universities of the 16th century humanist environments based on the expression Latin per omne fas ac nefas meaning for good or evil, for good or for bad, fair or unfair means, anyway, also by one thing for another, colloquially "h" or by be. FAS in latin is a neutral indeclinable noun which means the lawful and nefas as illicit. Here the fastos and ominous days of the Roman calendar. On the nefarious marked by the high priest could not held public events, neither religious nor legal nor political nor of any kind.

  
tabernazo
  24

Localism of Castilla. Balls of twigs and leaves abnormally accumulated at the end of the branches of some trees such as pine. You can see in the pinares de Arevalo in Ávila

  






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