_Meaning of "Assassin"_ (Vol. vii., p. 181.).--We owe this word to the
Crusaders, no doubt; but MUHAMMED will find a very interesting account of
the word in the Rev. C. Trench's admirable little work _On the Study of
Words_. See also Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, chap. lxiv.; to which, if I
remember rightly, Mr. Trench also refers.