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Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
Bárid (cold = silly, contemptible, foolish) 7
Báshik (small sparrow-hawk) 61
Bath (first after sickness) 266
Bází (Pers. Báz) = F. peregrinator, hawk, falcon 138
Beard (long, and short wits) 247
—— (forked, characteristic of a Persian) 325
Beast-stories (oldest matter in The Nights) 114
Beauties of nature provoke hunger in Orientals 32
Bhang (properties of the drug) 91
Bilád al-Súdán = Land of the blacks (our Soudan) 75
Bilál (benefits), name of Mohammed's Muazzin 106
Bint 'arús = daughter of the bridegroom (Ichneumon) 147
Birds denote the neighbourhood of a village 280
Bismilláh (Bi 'Smi 'lláh = in the name of God, etc.) 182
Blaze (see Ghurrah) 118
Boasting of one's tribe (see Renowning it) 80
Bostán (female Pr. N.) = flower-garden 345
Braying of the ass 117
Brothers of Purity 150
——— of ignorance = Ignoramus 163
Brotherhood (forms of making) 151
Bruising the testicles a feminine mode of murdering men 3
Budúr (Badoura) = full moons 228
Bukhti (two-humped camel) 67
Caliphs Tái li 'llah 51; 307
——— Walíd (Al-) 69
——— Mu'atasim bi 'llah 81
——— Wásik (Al-) ib.
——— Abd al-Malik bin Marwan 319
——— Ali ib.
——— Mu'áwiyah ib.
Camels (breeds of) 67; 110
——— (names) 110
——— (haltered, nose-ring used for dromedaries) 120
——— (Mehari, Mahríyah) 277
Camphor (simile for a fair face) 174
Carat = Kirát 239
Carnelion stone bitten with pearls = lips with teeth in sign of anger 179
Cat (puss, etc.) 149
Cervantes and Arab Romance 66
Chaff 23
Chameleon (father of coolness) 165
Cheese a styptic 3
Clapping hands to call servants 173
Clogs = Kubkáb 92
Coition (postures of) 93
Cold-of-countenance = a fool 7
Cold speech = a silly or abusive tirade ib.
Comrades of the Cave 128
Constipation (La) rend rigoreux 242
Copulation (postures of) 93
Cowardice equally divided 173
Criss 'cross Row 236
Dalhamah (Romance of) 112
Dara' (dira) = habergeon, coat of ring-mail, etc. 109
Daughters of Sa'adah = zebras 65
———— of the bier = Ursa major 28; 221
Day of Doom (mutual retaliation) 128
———— (length of) 299
"Death in a crowd as good as a feast" (Persian proverb) 141
Divorce (triple) 292
Doors (usually shut with a wooden bolt) 198
Double entendre 234
Dreams (true at later night) 258
Drinking at dawn 20
———— their death agony = suffering similar pain 315
Dromedary (see Camel)
———— (guided by a nose-ring) 120
Dunyá (P. N.) = world 7; 319
Durrah (vulg. for Zarrat q.v.).
Easterns sleep with covered heads 345
Eating together makes friends 71
Egyptian (= archi-) polissonnerie 243
Euphemy 68; 102; 209; 267; 338
Evacuation (and Constipation) 242
Eve (the true seducer) 166
Eye (darkening from wine or passion) 224
—— (orbits slit up and down the face of a hideous Jinn) 235