freak - a sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a capricious humour, notion, or whim.
mousey - rel. to mouse; colorless, timid, quiet; mousy - a playful diminutive of mouse.
bigamy - marriage with a second wife or husband during the lifetime of the first.
SHAN VAN VOCHT - Ireland as the "Poor Old Woman," Sean Bhean Bhocht, who has seen all its troubles.
blackfriar - a dominican friar (so called from the colour of their dress)
treacle - tricky, treacherous
liddle = little belittled Henry George Liddell - compiler of Liddell and Scott's Greek - English Lexicon.
therewith - with that (word, act, or occurrence), that being said or done, thereupon.
kingrick* - kingdom; Richard III (1452-85) - English king of the House of York, crookbacked like HCE, called The Boar or The Hog, from the device on his crest. In Shakespeare's Richard III, he is a villain, brothen-slayer.
Numidia* - "country of the nomads": ancient North African kingdom and Roman province, in modern Algeria.
poisoning - poisonous
barrage - concentrated delivery or outpouring
redeliver - to deliver (a message, etc.) again, to repeat, report
vergobret* - the chief magistrate among the ancient Ædui of Gaul
Caractacus (l) - king of Silures in Britain who fought the Roman invasion
Zouave - one of a body of light infantry in the French army, originally recruited from the Algerian Kabyle tribe of Zouaoua, but afterwards composed of French soldiers distinguished for their physique and dash, and formerly retaining the original Oriental uniform.
mime - a mimic, jester, buffoon, a pantomimist
mum - to silence, to put to silence
mick = mike - Irishman; a Roman Catholic
Nick - the devil
miming - pres. par. of mime (to act or play a part without words; to imitate, mimic).
maggie - a girl; Their Majesties, when more then one royal person is meant.
St Austell, Ivan, and Hilton St Just* - Ulysses (648) mentions them as Dublin tenors.
Colman (kuluman) (gael) - Young Dove
Leamhcan (loukan) (gael) - producing marshmallows
O'Daly* - according to Mr O Hehir, a family of hereditary Irish poets.
O'Dubhghaill (o'dugel) (gael) - descendant of Dubhghall ("dark-foreigner," i.e., Dane).
feerie - a fairy
Loch nEachach (lokh nakhokh) (gael) - Eachach's ("horse-man") Lake; anglic. Lough Neagh.
galloper - one who gallops on horseback, esp. of hunters; fig. One who proceeds at great speed.
harlequin* - in English pantomime a mute character supposed to be invisible to the clown and pantaloon; he has many attributes of the clown (his rival in the affections of Columbine) with the addition of mischievous intrigue.
zither - to play the zither
merryman - jester
saga - any of the narrative compositions in prose that were written in Iceland or Norway during the middle ages; a story, popularly believed to be matter of fact, which has been developed by gradual accretions in the course of ages, and has been handed down by oral tradition.
readable - capable of being read with pleasure or interest. Usually of literary work: Easy or pleasant to read, agreeable or attractive in style.
facetious* - characterized by, or addicted to, pleasantry; jocose, jocular, waggish.
libellous - containing or constituting a libel, of the nature of a libel
actionable - subject to or affording ground for an action or suit at law (slander is actionable).
volume* - a collection of written or printed sheets bound together so as to form a book; a tome.
niced - made foolish or delicate
tenorist - one who sings tenor
meritory* - serving to earn reward; productive of merit to the agent
Tennysonian* - an admirer, imitator, disciple, or student of Tennyson
to work one's passage - to pay for one's passage on board ship by working during the voyage (also fig.)
animando - becoming animated (used as direction in music)