re Bayle (1647-1706).

=Schacabac=, "the hare-lipped," a man reduced to the point of starvation,
invited to a feast by the rich Barmecide. Instead of victuals and drink,
the rich man set before his guest empty dishes and empty glasses,
pretending to enjoy the imaginary foods and drinks. Schacabac entered
into the spirit of the joke, and did the same. He washed in imaginary
water, ate of the imaginary delicacies, and praised the imaginary wine.
Barmecide was so delighted with his guest, that he ordered in a
substantial meal, of which he made Schacabac a most welcome
partaker.--_Arabian Nights_ ("The Barber's Sixth Brother"). (See
SHACCABAC.)

=Schah'riah=, sultan of Persia. His wife being unfaithful, and his
brother's wife too, Schahriah imagined that no woman was virtuous. He
resolved, therefore, to marry a fresh wife every night, and to have her
strangled at daybreak. Scheheraz[=a]d[^e], the vizier's daughter,
married him notwithstanding, and contrived, an hour before daybreak, to
begin a story to her sister, in the sultan's hearing, always breaking
off before the story was finished. The sultan got interested in these
tales; and, after a thousand and one nights, revoked his decree, and
found in Scheherazad[^e] a faithful, intelligent, and loving
wife.--_Arabian Nights' Entertainments._

=Schah'zaman=, sultan of the "Island of the children of Khal'edan,"
situated in the open sea, some twenty day's sail from the coast of
Persia. The sultan had a son, an only child, named Camaral'zaman, the
most beautiful of mortals. Camaralzaman married Badoura, the most
beautiful of women, the only daughter of Gaiour (2 _syl._), emperor of
China.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Camaralzaman and Badoura").

=Schaibar= (2 _syl._), brother of the fairy Pari-Banou. He was only
eighteen inches in height, and had a huge hump both before and behind.
His beard, though thirty feet long, never touched the ground, but
projected forwards. His moustaches went back to his ears, and his little
pig's eyes were buried in his enormous head. He wore a conical hat, and
carried for quarterstaff an iron bar of 500 lbs. weight at
least.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Ahmed and Pari-Banou").

=Schamir= (_The_) that instrument or agent with which Solomon wrought the
stones of the Temple, being forbidden to use any metal instrument for
the purpose. Some say the Schamir' was a worm; some that it was a stone;
some that it was "a creature no bigger than a barleycorn, which