[FN#378] Arab. "kallб," a Koranic term possibly from Kull (all) and lб (not) =prorsus non-altogether not!
[FN#379] "Habбb" or "Habб," the fine particles of dust, which we call motes. The Cossid (Arab. "Kбsid") is the Anglo-Indian term for a running courier (mostly under Government), the Persian "Shбtir" and the Guebre Rбvand.
[FN#380] Arab. "Sambari" a very long thin lance so called after Samhar, the maker, or the place of making. See vol. ii. p. 1. It is supposed to cast, when planted in the ground, a longer shadow in proportion to its height, than any other thing of the kind.
[FN#381] Arab. "Sulбfah ;" properly prisane which flows from the grapes before pressure. The plur. "Sawбlif" also means tresses of hair and past events: thus there is a "triple entendre." And again "he" is used for "she."
[FN#382] There is a pun in the last line, "Khбlun (a mole) khallauni" (rid me), etc.
[FN#383] Of old Fustбt, afterwards part of Southern Cairo, a proverbially miserable quarter hence the saying, "They quoted Misr to Kбhirah (Cairo), whereon Bab al-Luk rose with its grass," in derision of nobodies who push themselves forward. Burckhardt, Prov. 276.
[FN#384] Its fruits are the heads of devils; a true Dantesque fancy. Koran, chaps. xvii. 62, "the tree cursed in the Koran" and in chaps. xxxvii., 60, "is this better entertainment, or the tree of Al-Zakkъm?" Commentators say that it is a thorn bearing a bitter almond which grows in the Tehamah and was therefore promoted to Hell.
[FN#385] Arab. "Lasm" (lathm) as opposed to Bausah or boseh (a buss) and Kublah (a kiss,
[FN#386] Arab. "Jufъn" (plur. of Jafn) which may mean eyebrows or eyelashes and only the context can determine which. [FN#387] Very characteristic of Egyptian manners is the man who loves six girls equally well, who lends them, as it were, to the Caliph; and who takes back the goods as if in no wise damaged by the loan.
[FN#388] The moon is masculine possibly by connection with the
Assyrian Lune-god "Sin"; but I can find no cause for the Sun
(Shams) being feminine.