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[ For this Anglo-Indian term, = a running courier, see vol. vii. 340. It is the gist of the venerable Joe Miller in which the father asks a friend to name his seven-months child. "Call him 'Cossid' for verily he hath accomplished a march of nine months in seven months.">[
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[ Arab. "Madáfi al-Salámah," a custom showing the date of the tale to be more modern than any in the ten vols. of The Nights proper.]
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[ Master, captain, skipper (not owner): see vols. i. 127; vi. 112.]
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[ Zahr al-Bahr = the surface which affords a passage to man.]
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[ Arab. "Batiyah," gen. = a black jack, a leathern flagon.]