subs. phr. (literary).—See quot. (R. BURTON).
1885. BURTON, The Thousand Nights and a Night, i. 168. Note 3.—In other copies of these verses the fourth couplet SWEARS ‘BY THE SCORPIONS OF HIS BROW,’ i.e., the accroche-cœurs, the beau-catchers, bell-ropes or ‘aggravators.’
