Wabsanti

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  • absent
  • It santi: saints
  • zenith: the point in the heavens directly above the observer and diametrically opposite to the nadir → nabir
  • absinthe: a bitter, green liqueur containing extract of wormwood
    • Ulysses 042.25, 043.02, 043.10, 404.02, 405.26, 549.27
  • Arab wabi: infected
  • wab: northern form of web (OED) → the legend that Mohammed once hid from his enemies in a cave; as he slept a spider spun its web across the entrance, leading the Prophet's enemies to believe that no one had entered the cave for days (James Atherton, Books at the Wake p.207)
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