Shaykh (after the type of Abú Nowás), 251
Shaykhah Rájihah = the excellent Religious, 347
Shop (front-shelf of, a seat for visitors), 262
Shujá’ al-Dín (Pr. N.) = the Brave of the Faith, 18
Silah = conjunctive sentence; coition, 272
Sin (permitted that man might repent), 83
Singing (not harám = sinful, but makrúh = objectionable), 245
Skin (free from exudation sounds louder under the clapping of the hand), 150
Slave-girl (free, not forward in her address), 268
—— (to be sent as a spy into the Harims), 292
Sons (brought as servants unto Kings), 43
Spider-web frailest of houses (Koranic), 59
Spiritualism (the religion of the nineteenth century), 86
Steward (pendent to the parable of the unjust), 66
Style (intended to be worthy of a statesman), 42
Submission (Ar. Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wings), 74
Sufrah = cloth or leather upon which food is placed, 141
Sunan (used for Rasm = usage, customs), 74
Suways (Suez) = little weevil, or “little Sús”, 10
Tail (wagging of, a sign of anger with felidæ), 72
Tájir Alfí = a merchant worth a thousand (left indefinite), 313
Takhmísh = tearing the face in grief, 190
Tanwín al-Izáfah = the nunnation in construction, 272
Taubah (Bi al-) = by means or on account of penitence, 83
Thongs (of the waterskins cut, preparatory to departure), 302
Three hundred and three score rooms = one for each day of the Moslem year, 61
Three things (not to be praised before death), 39
Threshold (marble one in sign of honour), 238
Timbák (Tumbák) = stronger variety of Tobacco, 136
Title (used by a Sovereign in addressing a person confers the rank), 119
Tobacco (its mention inserted by some scribe), 136
Too much for him (to come by lawfully), 174
Trafalgar = Taraf al-Gharb (edge of the West), 50
Treasure (resembling one from which the talismans have been loosed), 287
Tribe (the misfortune of one fortuneth another), 342
Truth (told so as to be more deceptive than a lie), 223
Tuning (peculiar fashion of Arab musicians with regard to it), 27
Turbands (inclining from the head-tops), 221
Turks (forming the body-guard of the Abbasides), 245
Tuwuffiya = he was received (into the grace of God), 54
Ubullah (canal leading from Bassorah to Ubullah-town), 31
Umm al-banát wa’l-banín = mother of daughters and sons, 175