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) .....
