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 Index.

Seduction (the truth about it).

Serpent does not sting or bite, but

strike .....

Seven Sleepers ....

Shahadatani (A1-) = the two Testi-

monies .....

Shahriman not Shah Zeman. 7

Shaibal-Inghdz=: gray beard, shaking

with disapproval

Shakespearean • ' topothesia " out

Shakespeared

Shakhs = a person, a black spot

Shampooer (rubber) ^ Mukayyit or

bagman ....

Shanak ■=. hanging.

Shanfara (poet)

Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion)

Shaytan (Satan) term of abuse

(his wife and nine sons)

Shop (Arab, a " but " and a " ben

Shovel-iron stirrup = spar

Signs (of a Shaykh's tent)

•— (lucky in a horse).

Sinnaur = cat ; prince.

Siwak =: tooth-stick ; Siwa-ka =

other than thou.

Slaves (O Camphor)

(set free for the benefit of the

dead)

-(dealer in = Jallab)

Sleeping (with covered head and face)

Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus)

Solomon (his carpet)

Sodomites (angels appear to) 301

Sodomy with women

Son of Persian Kings (not Prince but

descendant)

Spindle (thinner than a).

St. George (posture)

Stages (ten, of love-sickness).

•' Stone-bow " not " Cross-bow "

Subhdna'llah pronounced to keep off

the evil eye

Sudan := our Soudan

Suf (wool), Sufi (Gnostic)

Suha (Soha) star in the Ursa Major

Sulaymd, dim. of Salmd=: any beau

tiful woman

Superiority of man above womaa

Sutures of the skull

Sycomore fig (for anns). ,

26

119

104

tiS

40

345

128

267

ib.

123

302

Tagi5t (idol) 217

Ta'i (A1-) li 'llah (Caliph). 51, 307

Takhil = adorning with Kohl. . 57

Talak bi'1-Salasah = triple divorce. 292

Tamar al- Hindi (Tamarind) = the

Indian date .... 297

Tasbfh = saying Subhan Allah ;

Rosary 125

Tayf = ghost, phantom. . . 252

Tayrab (A1-) a city .... 259

Tears (pouring blood like red wine). 169

Ten stages of love-sickness. . 36

Tent (signs of a Shaykh's). . 104

Testicles (beating and bruising of,

female mode of killing a man) . 3

Thamud (pre-historic Arab tribe). 294

Thorn of lance = eye-lash. •331

Tin =: fig, simile for a woman's parts 302

Tiryak = theriack, treacle (antidote) 65

Torrens quoted. 218 ; 235 ; 249 ; 289

Tossing upon coals of fire. • 61

Tughrdi (A1-), poet. . . .143

Turk (provoked to hunger by beauties

of nature) 33

(appears under the Abbasides) 81

Ubi aves ibi angeli. ..

Ukhuwan = camomile.

Urine (pollutes)

Urining (vnping after)

Ushari = camel travelling ten days

Wa ba'ad (see Amma ba'ad, vol. ii

) =: and afterwards

Waddle of *' Arab ladies"

Wady = valley ; slayer.

Waist (slender, hips large)

Walahan (Lakab of a poet = The

distracted) ....

Walgh = lapping of a dog

Walid (A1-) Caliph.

Walidati = my mother, speaking to

one not of the family

Wdrid = resorting to the water

Wasif = servant ; fern, wasifah

concubine ....

Wasik (A1-), Caliph

Waters flowing in Heaven.

Wayl-ak = Woe to thee.

Week-days (only two names for)

Weeping (not for form and face

alone) .....