Note 397 — ABU AL-HUSN AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL TAWADDUD.[281]

Arab. “Usus,” our os sacrum because, being incorruptible, the body will be built up thereon for Resurrection-time. Hence Hudibras sings (iii. 2).

The learned Rabbis of the Jews

Write there’s a bone which they call leuz,

I’ the rump of man, etc.

It is the Heb. “Uz,” whence older scholars derived os. Sale (sect. iv.) called it “El Ajb, os coccygis or rump-bone.”