Note 303 — JUDAR[257] AND HIS BRETHREN.

Arab. “Dabbús.” The Eastern mace is well known to English collectors; it is always of metal, and mostly of steel, with a short handle like our facetiously called “life-preserver.” The head is in various forms, the simplest a ball, smooth and round, or broken into sundry high and angular ridges like a melon, and in select weapons shaped like the head of some animal, bull, etc. See Night dcxlvi.