Blood moved between them (a “pathetic fallacy”) i. 77.
—— revenge religiously laudable, iii. 180.
“—— speaking to blood,” popular superstition, excusing unwarrantable liberties in Royal personages, iii. 531.
Book of Bakhtyár (Persian Bakhtyár Námeh) “The ten Wazirs, etc.,” i. 55.
Bostán al-Nuzhah = the Garden of Pleasance, i. 29.
Brain-pans (good old classical English) v. 219.
Branchlet = a youth’s bending form, ii. 162.
Breslau Edition quoted, i. 1, 4, 15, 25, 39, 42, 47, 51, 55, 58, 60, 121, 131, 134, 159, 165, 171, 175, 179, 185, 191, 266, 334, 359; ii. 3, 54, 55, 63, 67, 151, 183, 191, 259, 263, 275; iii. 51; v. 117, 118, 419.
Bridegroom offers coffee and Halwá to friends after a “happy night,” ii. 142.
Bridge at Baghdah made of the ribs of Og bin ’Unk (=Og of the Neck) iii. 19.
—— of Sanjia in Northern Syria is one of the four Wonders of the Moslem world, iv. 36.
Brow white as day and hair black as night (common conceit) iii. 96.
Buk’ah (=“a piece of low ground”) and Bak’ah (=“a hollow where water collects”) compared, vi. 12.
Bukhári = a place for steaming, iii. 355.
Bakhtí = The Bactrian or double-humped dromedary, ii. 235.
Buksumah (_Arab._) = “hard bread” (_tr._ “biscuit”) iv. 169.
Bulaybul (Al-) = the little nightingale, Philomelet, iv. 245.
Bulbul-i-hazár-dástán (_Arab._), usually shortened to “Hazár” = bird of a thousand tales = the Thousand, in Arab. called ’Andalíb, iii. 506.
“Bull- (Taur for Thaur or Saur)—numbered-and-for-battle-day-lengthened” (_tr. The Bull-aye-ready-and-for Battle-aye-steady_) v. 160.
Bull used in the East to turn the mill and water-wheel, iv. 294.
Bundukáni (Al-) = the cross-bow or pellet-bow man, vi. 53.
Bunduki (adj. of Bunbuk) = Venetian, ii. 204.
Bunúd (pl. of Pers. “band”) = hypocrisy, deceit (_tr._ “quiddities”) i. 353.
Burd (_pl._ of Burdah) = mantle or woollen plaid of striped stuff, v. 42.
Burka’ = the face veil of Egypt, etc., ii. 172.
Burúj (pl. of Burj) = _lit._ towers (_tr._ “mansions”) i. 353.
Búsah (doubtful meaning), possibly reed used as a case or sheath (ST.) v. 108.
But-Khánah = idol house, _syn._ with But-Kadah = image cuddy (_tr._ “Pagodas”) iii. 427.
Búyúrdi, Al- (_cler. error_ for “Buyúruldi”) = the written order of a Governor, vi. 180.