Piece-meal.—Naṣîf al Yazaji, in his letter to De Sacy, says that the original form is not but ; and that the first half is indeclinable as being part of a word, and the second as containing the meaning of the elided conjunction. Compare Alfîyeh, verse 15.

Cared not.—For the form see Lane’s Lexicon, Book I., p. 255.