weet potato.

_capitan_: "Captain," a title used in addressing or referring to the
gobernadorcillo or a former occupant of that office.

_carambas_: A Spanish exclamation denoting surprise or displeasure.

_carbineer_: Internal-revenue guard.

_cedula_: Certificate of registration and receipt for poll-tax.

_chico_: The sapodilla plum.

_Civil Guard_: Internal quasi-military police force of Spanish officers
and native soldiers.

_cochero_: Carriage driver: coachman.

_Consul_: A wealthy merchant; originally, a member of the _Consulado_,
the tribunal, or corporation, controlling the galleon trade.

_cuadrillero_: Municipal guard.

_cuarto_: A copper coin, one hundred and sixty of which were equal
in value to a silver peso.

_cuidao_: "Take care!" "Look out!" A common exclamation, from the
Spanish _cuidado_.

_dalag_: The Philippine _Ophiocephalus_, the curious walking mudfish
that abounds in the paddy-fields during the rainy season.

_dalaga_: Maiden, woman of marriageable age.

_dinding_: House-wall or partition of plaited bamboo wattle.

_director, directorcillo_: The town secretary and clerk of the
gobernadorcillo.

_distinguido_: A person of rank serving as a private soldier but
exempted from menial duties and in promotions preferred to others of
equal merit.

_escribano_: Clerk of court and official notary.

_filibuster_: A native of the Philippines who was accused of advocating
their separation from Spain.

_gobernadorcillo_: "Petty governor," the principal municipal official.

_gogo_: A climbing, woody vine whose macerated stems are used as soap;
"soap-vine."

_guingon_: Dungaree, a coarse blue cotton cloth.

_hermano mayor_: The manager of a fiesta.

_husi_: A fine cloth made of silk interwoven with cotton, abaka,
or pineapple-leaf fibers.

_ilang-ilang_: The Malay "flower of flowers," from which the well-known
essence is obtained.

_Indian_: The Spanish designation for the Christianized Malay of the
Philippines was _indio_ (Indian), a term used rather contemptuously,
the name _Filipino_ being generally applied in a restricted sense to
the children of Spaniards born in the Islands.

_kaingin_: A woodland clearing made by burning off the trees and
underbrush, for planting upland rice or camotes.

_kalan_: The small, portable, open, clay fireplace commonly used
in cooking.

_kalao_: The Philippine hornbill. As in all Malay countries, this bird
is the object of curious superstit