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Having a large belly; pursy. ish domination in Spain, He died A. D. 961. Abd-er-Rahman, sultan of Fez and Morocco, b. 1778, ascended the throne 1823. Threatened by the refusal of Austria to pay the tribute for safety against pirates, he wisely adjusted the dispute by relinquishing this sort of "black-mail" formerly levied by Morocco on European ships in the Mediterranean. The religious war under Abd-el-Kader against the French in Algeria involved the sultan in its movements, but was concluded by the battle of Isly, 1844, and the subsequent mediation of England. D. 1855, and was succeeded by his eldest son, SidiMohammed. Ab'dest, a Persian word, properly signifying the water placed in a basin for washing the hands; but it is used to imply the legal purification practised by the Mahometans before prayer, entering the mosque, or reading the IMG:content-0014.png:[blocks in formation]