Hæmorrhage stopped by plunging the stump into burning oil, 168. Hájib = eyebrow or chamberlain, 252. Haláwah = Sweetmeat, 127. Haláwat al-Miftáh = Sweetmeat of the Key-money (_tr._ “_douceur_ of the Key”), 20. Halfah grass, 46. Hamd (Al-) = Allah-lauds, 221. Hamzah, uncle of Mahommed, 164. Hárát (or quarters) closed at night with strong wooden doors, 9. Harísah = meat pudding, 277. Hatif = an ally, 234. Hauráni = (native of Hauran), Job’s country, 50. Haykal (Ar. and Heb.) = a large space, a temple (_tr._ “hallowed fane”), 175. He is of the lords of houses = folk of good family, 169. “Hell-flame but not shame,” _proverb_, 148. Hibá = dust. Hijáz (Al-) = The Moslem’s Holy Land, (Cap. Meccah), 193. Himà = the tribal domain (_tr._ “tribe-land”), 215. Hirfah = a trade, a guild, a corporation (_here_ the officers of police), 54. “His eyes turned in his head” (to show the whites, as happens to the mesmerised), 242. Horse-thief chained to four pickets of iron, 224. House of the Elephant (at chess) = the Castle’s square, 205. Hujjat = a legal deed (may also mean “an excuse”), 27. Husn tadbir = _lit._ “beauty of his contrivance” (_tr._ “Seemliness of his stratagem”), 29. I cannot fill my eye with the twain = cannot look at them long, 88. “I commit him to thy charge under God,” 184. “If his friend the Devil be overstrong for thee, flee him rather than be slain,” 202. If my hand were changed = if my hand had lost its cunning, 78. “I have not any eye that can look at him” = “I cannot bear to see him,” 110. Ihramat li al-Salát = she pronounced the formula of Intention (Hiyat) (_tr._ “the Prohibition”), 94. Iklím = clime, 3. ’Iláj (Al-) = insertion (_tr._ “horizontal refreshment”), 185. Imam = Antistes or fugleman at prayer who leads off the orisons, 101. Inscriptions on metal trays sold to Europeans (also on table-cloths), 87. Iraks (two) = Irák Arabí (Chaldæa) and ’Ajami (Western Persia), 191. ’Irk = vein (of our eye) _equiv. to_ “the apple of the eye,” 144. Irregular use of inn, perpetuated in some monster hotels throughout Europe, 20. Irtiyád = a place where the urine spray may not defile the dress (_tr._ “a place to make water”), 13. Isaac of Mosul, the greatest of Arab Musicians, 70. I smell the scent of the Jinn, 125. “I think not otherwise” = “I am quite sure,” 119. I will lay down my life to save thee from sorrow—a common-place hyperbole of love, 181. ’Iyál-hu = _lit._ his family (_tr._ wives), 8. Jabal (Al-) al-Mukawwar = the Crescent Mountain (from Kaur = a park), 119. Jabhat = the lintel, opposed to the threshold (_tr. here_ “‘forehead’ of his shop”), 137. Jamal fálij = the palsy-camel, 235. Jamrah = a bit of burning charcoal, 122. —— = a live coal, 87. Jazírah = insula, Island, used in the sense of “peninsula,” 220. Jinns of Northern Europe, 86. Job (traditions of), 50.