acmason_: Freemason, the _bete noire_ of the Philippine friar.

_peseta_: A silver coin, in value one-fifth of a peso or thirty-two
cuartos.

_peso_: A silver coin, either the Spanish peso or the Mexican dollar,
about the size of an American dollar and of approximately half
its value.

_pina_: Fine cloth made from pineapple-leaf fibers.

_proper names_: The author has given a simple and sympathetic touch
to his story throughout by using the familiar names commonly employed
among the Filipinos in their home-life. Some of these are nicknames
or pet names, such as Andong, Andoy, Choy, Neneng ("Baby"), Pute,
Tinchang, and Yeyeng. Others are abbreviations or corruptions of
the Christian names, often with the particle ng or ay added, which
is a common practice: Andeng, Andrea; Doray, Teodora; Iday, Brigida
(Bridget); Sinang, Lucinda (Lucy); Sipa, Josefa; Sisa, Narcisa; Teo,
Teodoro (Theodore); Tiago, Santiago (James); Tasio, Anastasio; Tika,
Escolastica; Tinay, Quintina; Tinong, Saturnino.

_Provincial_: Head of a religious order in the Philippines.

_querida_: Paramour, mistress: from the Spanish, "beloved."

_real_: One-eighth of a peso, twenty cuartos.

_sala_: The principal room in the more pretentious Philippine houses.

_salabat_: An infusion of ginger.

_salakot_: Wide hat of palm or bamboo and rattan, distinctively
Filipino.

_sampaguita_: The Arabian jasmine: a small, white, very fragrant
flower, extensively cultivated, and worn in chaplets and rosaries by
the women and girls--the typical Philippine flower.

_santol_: The Philippine sandal-tree.

_sawali_: Plaited bamboo wattle.

_sinamay_: A transparent cloth woven from abaka fibers.

_sinigang_: Water with vegetables or some acid fruit, in which fish
are boiled; "fish soup."

_Susmariosep_: A common exclamation: contraction of the Spanish,
_Jesus, Maria, y Jose_, the Holy Family.

_tabi_: The cry of carriage drivers to warn pedestrians.

_talibon_: A short sword, the "war bolo."

_tapa_: Jerked meat.

_tapis_: A piece of dark cloth or lace, often richly worked or
embroidered, worn at the waist somewhat in the fashion of an apron:
a distinctive portion of the native women's attire, especially among
the Tagalogs.

_tarambulo_: A low weed whose leaves and fruit pedicles are covered
with short, sharp spines.

_teniente-mayor_: Senior lieutenant, the senior member of the town
council and substitute for the gobernadorcillo.

_tikas-tikas_: