Index.
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Eye (man of the = pupil)
(white = blind)
323
Fables proper (oldest part of The
Nights) 114
Fairer to-day than fair of yesterday
= ever increasing in beauty . 331
Falak (clearing) = breaking forth of
light from darkness ... 22
Falcon {see Hawk, Bazi) . . .154
Falling on the back with laughter . 306
Farting for fear . . . .118
Fatin =: tempter, seducer . . 82
Firdausi. the Persian Homer, quoted %},
Fire and sickness cannot cohabit {see
Kayy 59
worshippers slandered . . 326
First at the feast and last at the fray 81
Fist (putting into fist z=x putting one-
self at another's mercy) ■. . 155
Flying for delight .... 26
Foot, sn>allness of, sign of " blood " 227
Formula of praise pronounced to
avert the evil eye . . . 224
Fortune makes kneel her camel by
some other one = encamps with
a favourite 141
Foster-brother (dearer than kith and
kin) . . . . , i 256
Fox, cunning man (j« Wolf) . .132
Freeing slaves for the benefit of the
souls of the departed . . 211
Fulan (fulano in Span, and Port.) =
a certain person . , , 191
Futuh =r openings, victories, benefit 304
Gamin (faire le) , , .
Gates (two to port towns).
Geography in its bearings on Morality
Geomantic process .
Gharam (Pr. N.) = eagerness, de
sire, love-longing . ,
Ghaza (Artemisia-shrub) .
Ghost (phantom = Tayf)
Ghurrah = blaze on a horse's fore
head
Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health
Give a man luck and throw him into
the sea
Goad (of the donkey-boy)
Gossamer (names for)
Grave (levelling slave and sovereign)
a.
241
269
220
252
116
217
323
Hair-strings (of black silk) . , 311
■■ (significance of) . . . 313
Hajib = groom, chamberlain , . 233
Hajin (tall camel) . ... .67
Hamah (soul of a murdered man in
form of a bird sprung from his
head) 293
Hammam-bath a luxuiy as well as a
necessity ..... 19
Hands behind the back (posture of
submission) . , . .218
■ stained in stripes like ring-
rows of a chain-armour . .176
Harut and Marut (sorcerer-angels) . 217
Harwalah = pas gymnastique . . 121
Hkshshashun := assassins . , 91
Hashish, see Bhang . , . , ib.
orgie in London . . . ib,
Hawar = intensity of black and
white in the eyes . , . 233
Hawi = juggler playing tricks with
snakes ..... 145
Hawk, see Bashik, Bazi , . 61 ; 138
Haydt al-Nufus = Life of Souls . 283
Hazir and Badi =: townsman and
nomad 234
Head (must always be kept covered) 275
Headsman delaying execution . » 42
Hemistichs divided . . , .166
Hermaphrodites (Khunis^) . • 306
Heroine of Eastern Romance eats
well 168
Hijl = partridge . . .' , 138
" Him " for " her '♦ ... 78
Hinges (of ancient doors) , . 41
Hips, leanness of, "anti-pathetic " to
Easterns 226
Hoof (of the wild ass) . . . 235
Horripilation cr gooseflesh . . 2
Horse (names of the) ... 72
' stealing honourable . . 73
Host (enters first as safe-guafd
against guet-apens) . . . 208
Houris ..... 233
Hudhud = hoopoe .... 128
Hut, see Houris .... 233
Hurr = free, noble, independent
opp. to 'Abd = servile . . 44
iBLfs = the Despairer
Ibn Abdun a]-Ajidalusi (poet) .
319
