[FN#22] Three stars so called in the Great Bear.
[FN#23] or recite.
[FN#24] There are three orders of Jinn: the upper or inhabitants
of the air, the lower or inhabitants of the earth and the divers
or inhabitants of the waters.
[FN#25] Lit. lean and fat.
[FN#26] Syn. eye (nazir).
[FN#27] Syn. eyebrow (hajib).
[FN#28] A play upon words turning upon the literal meaning
("auspicious full moons") of the two names of women Budour and
Suad.
[FN#29] Ring-mail.
[FN#30] i.e. Orvietan or Venice treacle, the well-known universal
remedy of the middle ages, alluded to by Chaucer in the words,
"And Christ that is unto all ills triacle."
[FN#31] Names of women.
[FN#32] Women's name.
[FN#33] Women's name.
[FN#34] i.e. a woman.
[FN#35] Women's names.
[FN#36] Wine.
[FN#37] i.e. by way of ornament.
[FN#38] The well-known semi-legendary sage and fabulist.
[FN#39] Playing upon his own name, Kemerezzeman, which means,
"Moon of the time or of fortune." Budour means "Full moons."
[FN#40] Siwaka, a toothstick, (acc.) means also "other than
thee."
[FN#41] Araka, a capparis-tree, (acc.) means also, "I see thee."
Toothsticks are made of
the wood of this tree.
[FN#42] A treasury of money is a thousand purses or about ?5,000.
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