Note 170 — A CYCLOPÆDIA OF PRACTICAL RECEIPTS, PROCESSES, AND COLLATERAL INFORMATION (continued 15)
Reading edition
Some authorities derive this word from badzahr or pazahar, Persian compounds implying ‘antidote to poison,’ others, from paseng, or pasahr, the name of the goat in Persia. Mayne’s notation—bez oar, is unusual; and several of his analogues, synonymes, &c., are incorrectly given (? misprinted).