to concoct a potion

—What think you, my lord, of... love? —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.

The Transjordanian highlands north of Bilad al-Sharat—the Balqa and the Sawad—remained part of the Burid atabegate of Damascus.

My mother was a tailor / She sewed my new blue jeans / My father was a gamblin' man / Down in New Orleans