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Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night choose

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[UK] R.F. Burton Book of Thousand Nights I 15: Hath this gallows-bird aught remaining wherewith to buy slave-girls?
at gallows-bird, n.
[UK] R.F. Burton Book of Thousand Nights I 14: Fed thy famisht maw with his boiled and roast.
at boiled, n.
[UK] R.F. Burton Book of Thousand Nights II 332: Eating and drinking and futtering for a year of full twelve months.
at futter, v.
[UK] R.F. Burton Book of Thousand Nights I 323: The Panel-dodge is common throughout the East – a man found in the house of another is helpless.
at panel game (n.) under panel, n.1
[UK] R.F. Burton Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Sept. V 167: This is a sore insult in Arabia, where they have not dreamt of a ‘Jawáb-club,’ like that of Calcutta in the old days, to which only men who had been half-a-dozen times ‘jawab’d’ ( = refused in Anglo-Indian jargon) could belong.
at Juwab Club (n.) under juwab, n.
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