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. 560 ff.).

[2] _Bibi Sahiba_. 'On the principle of the degradation of titles which is general, this word in application to European ladies has been superseded by the hybrid _Mem Sahib_ or Madam Sahib, though it is often applied to European maid-servants or other Englishwomen of that rank of life' (Yule, _Hobson-Jobson_[2], 78).

[3] It is one of the flowers which produce pollen catarrh. Pope's suggestion that a man with a hypersensitive nervous system might 'die of a rose in aromatic pain', is not an impossible contingency.

[4] Goulard water, named after Thomas Goulard, a French surgeon: a solution of sub-acetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation (_New English Dictionary, s.v._).

[5] P. 235.

[6] Not in Platts' _Hindustani Dictionary_: probably _barhan_, increasing.

[7] _Ritha_, the berry of the soap-nut tree, _Sapindus trifoliatus_ or _mukorossi_. (Watt, _Economic Dict_., vol. vi,