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A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

A silk fabric, with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers. [Written also jamdanee.] Balfour (Cyc. of India).

A pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists. [Obs.] Halliwell.

See Ladanum.

pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters, and for fumigation. [Written also labdanum.]

A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.

Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.

Stupid; blockish. [Obs.]

See Mohammedan.

In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.

Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidæ. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.

One of a family of birds (Meropidæ), including the bee-eaters.

A bird of the Thrush family.

Wrong guidance.

med, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed. [Written also Mahometan, Mahomedan, Muhammadan, etc.]

ving 355 days; the others are common, having 354 days. By the following tables any Mohammedan date may be changed into the Christian date, or vice versa, for the years 1900-1935 a. d.

The era in use in Mohammedan countries. See Mohammedan year, below.

The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 begin Nov. 30, 1913, acording to the Gregorian calendar.…

The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism.

To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism. [Written also Mahometanize.]