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[FN#121] Kafir means "black" as well as "infidel."
[FN#122] One of the Mohammedan legends represents Moses as seeking the water of life.
[FN#123] The allusion here is to the face of a beloved one, which is likened to a moon rising out of her dress.
[FN#124] An ornamental hand, said to be so called from the resemblance of the pen with which it is written to the leaf of the sweet basil.
[FN#125] lit. "the love of the Beni Udhra," an Arabian tribe, famous for the pa.s.sion and devotion with which love was practiced among them.
[FN#126] Syn. eye (n.a.z.ir).
[FN#127] Syn. eyebrow (hajib).
[FN#128] i.e. including the two days that had already elapsed.
[FN#129] i.e. a graceful youth of the province in which Mecca is situate.
[FN#130] A small piece of wood used in a children's out-door game called tab.
[FN#131] The stone of the beleh or "green" date, not allowed to ripen.
[FN#132] Or drachm-weight.
[FN#133] An audacious parody of the consecrated expression used to describe the ceremonious circ.u.mambulation of the Kaabeh at Mecca.
[FN#134] Subaudiantur autem utriusque s.e.xus pudenda.
[FN#135] Subaudiantur autem utriusque s.e.xus pudenda.
[FN#136] Subaudiatur vas muliebre.
[FN#137] The word sac (leg), when used in the oblique case, as it would necessarily be here, makes saki, i.e. cup-bearer. A play upon the double meaning is evidently intended.
[FN#138] In the East, bathers pay on leaving the bath.
[FN#139] As a styptic.
[FN#140] Dunya.
[FN#141] s.e.m.e.n hominis.
[FN#142] i.e. the rolls of dirt that come off under the bathman's hands.
[FN#143] Paradise.
[FN#144] The cold room of the bath.
[FN#145] The hot room.
[FN#146] The door-keeper of h.e.l.l.
[FN#147] The door-keeper of Paradise.
[FN#148] i.e. Crown of Kings.
[FN#149] An obscure star in the Great Bear.
[FN#150] Zibl means "dung" or "sweepings." Can (Khan) means "chief."
[FN#151] i.e., Him who fights for the Faith.
[FN#152] A town on the Euphrates, on the borders of Syria and Mesopotamia.
[FN#153] i.e. recognized him as king by naming him in the public prayers.
[FN#154] i.e. the silky whiskers, which it is common, in poetry, to call green likening them to newly-sprouted herbage.
[FN#155] i.e. the Day of Judgment.
[FN#156] Ironical.
[FN#157] i.e. Kanmakan.
[FN#158] Meaning, apparently, poisoned.
[FN#159] i.e. with a blow worthy of the members of the family of Thaalebeb to which (see post, p. 368 {see ...Said he, 'I am Ibad ben Temin ben Thaalebh, and indeed...}) he belonged.
[FN#160] i.e. his sister.
[FN#161] i.e. benefits.
[FN#162] i.e. new moon.
