Crossword-Solution: ZAKK 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Aroynt thee, O copper-worth of jaundiced sorrel, O rust of brass-pot, O face of owl in gloom, and fruit of the Hell-tree Zakkъm;[FN#384] whose bedfellow, for heart-break, is buried in the tomb.

The Zakkûm or balsam-tree (Balanites) is equally thorny, and beneath these grow poisonous nightshades, and other noxious plants.

Hatim’s attention was wholly occupied by the man who lay on the ground sighing and weeping, and at intervals exclaiming, “_I have not done aught that can benefit me this night._” The latter, too, had a table, but instead of nectar and ambrosia his cup was filled with the juice of the zakkūm,[b2.08] and the food of the condemned, and the most loathsome dregs mingled with blood.