557 ([return])
[ Arab. "Bunúd," plur. of Persian "band" = hypocrisy, deceit.]
558 ([return])
[ Arab. "Burúj" pl. of Burj. lit. = towers, an astrological term equivalent to our "houses" or constellations which form the Zodiacal signs surrounding the heavens as towers gird a city; and applied also to the 28 lunar Mansions. So in Al-Hariri (Ass. of Damascus) "I swear by the sky with its towers," the incept of Koran chapt. lxxxv.; see also chapts. xv. 26 and xxv. 62. "Burj" is a word with a long history: {pýrgos} burg, burgh, etc.]
559 ([return])
[ Arab. "Bundukah"=a little bunduk, nut, filbert, pellet, rule, musket bullet.]
560 ([return])
[ See John Raister's "Booke of the Seven Planets; or, Seven Wandering Motives," London, 1598.]
561 ([return])
[ i.e. for the king whom I love as my own soul.]