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their beauty. “ One blunt of heart,” kaham: the opposite of mddi y cutting, keen, 
going straight to his end. 
y. 18. “Days,” Ayydm, is the word used in Arab legend for battles : one says— 
“the Day of el-Kulab,” “the Day of Shi‘b Jebeleh,” &c., although the fight may 
(as it did at el-Kulab) have lasted longer than one day. The second hemistich cannot 
be literally rendered into English. Lalid yhurarun ma l lumatun iva hojula means 
“ They (*. c. our days) have wellknown ghurar and hojul .” Ghurar is the plural of gliur - 
rah , a white blaze on the forehead of a horse ; and hojul is the plural of hijl, the origi¬ 
nal meaning of which is an anklet: then, of a horse, a white ring on the leg in the 
place of an anklet; as horses bearing such marks are conspicuous among a troop, so 
are the Days of his tribe glorious among days. So says ‘Amr son of Kulthum, using 
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