DAPHNIS MYRBILE. Wu-yoli, CHIN.
A shrub of several Chinese provinces, resembling the tea shrub. Root used tnedicinally.—Smilli.
DAR. PEits., HIND. In the Persian, from Dash tan, to bold, a possessor, a place of abode ; also from the Chaldee and Ilebrew, meaning to encircle, to dwell. Used as a prefix and postfix to tnany compound nouns,---as Dia-ul-fana, the perishable abode, i.e. the world ; Dar-ul-baka, the permanent abode, i.e. eternity; Amil-dar, a tax-gatherer ; Ab-dar, watery, awater-eooler; Zamin-dar, a land holder ; Na-dar, a pauper (bolder of nothing) ; Killa-dar, Chob-dar, Jawab-dar, etc. ; Dar-us shafa, a, hospital ; Dar-ul-khilafat, the khalif's residence ; Dar-ns-sultanat, the residence of a king, a capital ; Dar-ul-barb, a country under a non-Mahomedan government, the seat of constant hostility or war, non-Mahomedans at all times being legitimate objects of attack.
Dar-ul-karar, a rhythmical addition to Kanda har. The words mean the abode of quiet, or city of stability. Throughout the East, Mahomedans
often employ this kind of alliteration. After Choki, a chair, they will add choki-oki ; to Bachali, a child, is added bach-kaeh ; Ilyderabad is farkh undah baniad, of happy foundation.
Dar-ul-karar, or city of permanence, is allegori cally applied to the future world, as opposed to this, the Dunya-i-fani, the transitory world.
Dar-ul-khilafat, at Baghdad, the palace built by Al Mansur, tbe second khalif of the Abbas dynasty, and which his successors enlarged and furnished in the most costly manner. A piece of the Ilajar-us-siah, or black stone of Mecca, was let into the threshold of the principal gateway, and a large curtain, made of the hangings of the temple, was suspended from a window of the gateway, to about the height of a man from the ground. Every person entering had to rub his eyes with the curtain, and to crawl over tbe black stone to avoid touching it with his feet.