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nd worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer.

ntaining the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible. Fig.)

An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans. [Written also Bizmillah.]

The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [Written also kaaba.]

An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey, [Writting also calif.]

evails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. Byron.

powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.

us sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria. The Druses separated from the Mohammedan Arabs in the 9th century. Their characteristic dogma is the unity of God. Am. Cyc.

nt chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials.

Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope.

eligion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church. Which to believe of her, Must be a faith that reason without miracle Coul…

adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed.

city, the aldermen. -- Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. -- Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. -- Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans…

Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.

ically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.

an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Mohammedans. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah is also used adjectively; as, Fulah empire, tribes, language.

A Christian in general; -- used as a term of reproach by Mohammedans and Pagans. Byron.

Among Mohammedans, a warrior champion or veteran, esp. in the destruction of infidels.