Arab. “Katl.” I have noticed the Hibernian “kilt” which is not a bull but, like most provincialisms and Americanisms, a survival, an archaism. In the old Frisian dialect, which agrees with English in more words than “bread, butter and cheese,” we find the primary meaning of terms which with us have survived only in their secondary senses, _e.g._ killen = to beat and slagen = to strike. Here is its great value to the English philologist. When the Irishman complains that he is “kilt” we know through the Frisian what he really means. Footnote 334: The decency of this description is highly commendable and I may note that the Bresl. Edit. is comparatively free from erotic pictures. Footnote 335: _i.e._ “I commit him to thy charge under God.” Footnote 336: This is an Americanism, but it translates passing well “Al-’iláj” = insertion. Footnote 337: Arab. (and Heb.) “Tarjumán” = a dragoman, for which see vol. i. 100. In the next tale it will occur with the sense of polyglottic. Footnote 338: See vol. 1 p. 35. Footnote 339: After putting to death the unjust Prefect. Footnote 340: Arab. “Lajlaj.” See vol. ix. 322. Footnote 341: Arab. “Mawálid” lit. = nativity festivals (plur. of Maulid). See vol. ix. 289. Footnote 342: Bresl. Edit., vol. xii. pp. 116–237, Nights dcccclxvi-dcccclxxix. Mr. Payne entitles it “El Abbas and the King’s Daughter of Baghdad.” Footnote 343: “Of the Shaybán tribe.” I have noticed (vol. ii. 1) how loosely the title Malik (King) is applied in Arabic and in mediæval Europe. But it is ultra-Shakespearian to place a Badawi King in Baghdad, the capital founded by the Abbasides and ruled by those Caliphs till their downfall. Footnote 344: _i.e._ Irák Arabí (Chaldæa) and ’Ajami (Western Persia.) For the meaning of Al-Irak, which always, except in verse, takes the article, see vol. ii. 132. Footnote 345: See supra, p. 185. Mr. Payne suspects a clerical error for “Turkumániyah” = Turcomanish; but this is hardly acceptable. Footnote 346: As fabulous a personage as “King Kays.” Footnote 347: Possibly a clerical error for Zabíd, the famous capital of the Tahámah or lowlands of Al-Yaman. Footnote 348: The Moslem’s Holy Land whose capital is Meccah. Footnote 349: A hinted protest against making a picture or a statue which the artist cannot quicken; as this process will be demanded of him on Doomsday. Hence also the Princess is called Máriyah (Maria, Mary) a non-Moslem name. Footnote 350: _i.e._ day and night, for ever. Footnote 351: