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Frame (crescent-like by reason of leanness), 300

Friend (feminine, does not hesitate to prescribe a fib), 37

Front-teeth wide apart (a beauty amongst the Egyptians, not the Arabs), 147

Funduk = Fondaco, 184

Funeral oration on an Arabian Achilles (after Hariri), 348

Full (Fill) = Arabian jessamine, 273

“Gallery” (Speaking to the), 128

Ghadr = cheating, 217

GhÁliyah (Al-) = older English “Algallia”, 220

GharÁmah = avanie, 151

GhayÚr = jealous (applied to Time), 67

GhÁzÍ = one who fights for the faith (Zealot), 211

GhurÁb = galleon (grab), 323

Gloria (in, Italian term for the venereal finish), 329

Gold-pieces (stuck on the cheeks of singing-girls, etc.), 275

Green gown (Anglo-India = white ball-dress with blades of grass behind), 32

Groom (falling in love with), 345

“Guebre” (introduced by Lord Byron), 8

Gull-fairs, 90

Habitations (names given to them by the Arabs), 229

Habl = cord; cause, 100

HÁfiz quoted, 120

Hakk = right (HakkÍ = mine), 335

HalÁwat al-SalÁmah = sweetmeat for the returning of a friend, 325

Haling by the hair (reminiscence of “marriage by capture”), 40

Hamzah (uncle of the Prophet), 172

HanabÁt = “hanap”, 202

Hand (cut off in penalty for theft), 164

—— (cut off for striking a father), 287

HÁrÚn al-RashÍd (described by Al-SiyÚti), 160

HashÍsh (said to him = his mind, under its influence, suggested to him), 155

HÁsil, HÁsilah = cell in a Khan for storing goods, 184; 196

HassÚn (diminutive of Hasan), 81

Haudaj (Hind. Howda) = camel-litter for women, 235

HÁwiyah (name of a Hell), 346

Hazrat = our mediÆval “prÆsentia vostra”, 254

“Hearer” not “Reader” addressed, 316

Heavens (names of the seven), 111

Hells (names of the seven and intended inhabitants), ib.

Heroism of a doubtful character, 27

Hesperides (apples of, probably golden nuggets), 272

HimÀ = guarded side, demesne, 102; 225

“His” for “her”, 50

HizÁm = girdle, 160

“Holy Writ” punned upon, 348

“House of Sadness”, 64

Housewife (looks to the main chance), 144

HubÚb (Pr. N.) = awaking, blowing hard, 180

Marriage (“by capture”), 40

—— (one of the institutions of the Apostles), 137

Married never once (emphasizes poverty), 145

Marseille (probably alluded to), 315

Maryam (a Christian name), 306

MasÚkah = stick used for driving cattle, 147

Maryam al-Husn = place of the white doe (RÍm) of beauty, 321

MawwÁl (for MawÁlÍyah) = short poem, 94; 151

Menses (coition during and leprosy), 24

Mikhaddah = cheek-pillow, 273

Mine (idioms for expressing it), 335

Minshafah (pl. ManÁshif) = drying towel, 92

Moharram = first month of the Moslem year, 71

Mohtasib = Inspector of weights and measures, 293

Money (carried round the waist), 288

—— (weighed = paid down), 290

Monkery (none in Al-IslÁm), 137

Monoculars (famed for mischief), 318

Moons (for cup-bearers), 227

Mortal (one better in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), 5; 44

Moslem (dignity contrasting with Christian abasement), 5; 44

—— (can circumcise, marry and bury himself), 22

Moslems (their number preordained), 154

Mother (in Arab. tales = ma mÈre), 27

MuÁkhÁt = entering in a formal agreement of partnership, 232

Mu’allim = teacher, master (addressing a Jew or Christian), 150

Muhabbat (Al-) al-gharizÍyah = natural affection, 110

Munkati’ = cut off, 24

MusÁhikah = Tribade, 130

Mushayyad = lofty, high-built, 23

Mystification explained by extraordinary likeness, 40

NabbÚt = quarterstaff, 186

Nafs AmmÁrah = the Flesh, 31

—— al-NÁtikah = intellectual soul, ib.

—— al-Ghazabiyah = animal function, ib.

—— al-Shahwaniyah = vegetative property, ib.

Najm al-SabÁh (Pr. N.) = Star o’ Morn, 107

NÁkhÚzah Zulayt = Skipper Rapscallion, 175

NÁr = fire (fem. like the names of the other elements), 16

Narjis = Narcissus (name of a slave girl), 176

NasÍm = Zephyr (emendation for NadÍm = cup-bearer), 62

Navel (largeness of much appreciated), 33

NawÁtÍyah = crew (nauta, navita), 17

NafÍsah (Pr. N.) = The Precious one, 328

Najm al-Munkazzi = shooting star, 329

Nakat = to spot; to handsel, 266

NÁkÚs = wooden gong, 328

Nau (pl. AnwÁ) setting of one star simultaneous with another’s rising, Transcriber's Note:

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