Oakley, Annie - female sharpshooter; term for a seat given free at a theater.
deadliness - dead accuracy
consumatory - concluding, completing, finishing; perfect
provocative - something that provokes, aphrodisiac
fall for - to yield to the attractions of, to be captivated or carried away by
empty - something that is empty
reid - red + Reid's Family Stout, drunk in British Isles.
ruadh (rue) (gael) - red + read
demd = damned + goddamned
bloodthirst - thirst for blood, eagerness for bloodshed
stout - a strong variety of porter + ..."stout. One sad circumstance the narrator mentioned which goes at once to the heart of things. Having reprimed"... (Joyce left the original sad circumstance out, when he fair-copied his first draft).
reprime - to prime again (to supply a firearm with gunpowder)
repeater - a repeating firearm
resite - To place on another site; to relocate + room - trans. To accommodate or lodge (guests).
timepiece - an instrument for measuring and registering the passage of time; in a general sense, any kind of chronometer, including clocks and watches.
occupancy - the condition of being an occupant; the fact of occupying + FDV: He rose to his feet and told of it in to tell [this group of little precocious caremakers] in the simplest of intensive language to the [of the great now mythical figure in the widewinged hat, the four-in-hand cravat and the gauntlet [upon the hand which [for ever] had struck down Destrelle]].
commonplace - a common ordinary place
Whittington, Dick (d. 1423) - thrice Lord Mayor of London. He has been confused with the folk-figure Dick Whittington, who was recalled to London by the prophetic peal of Bow bells: "Turn again, Whittington." The story of Dick's cat, who rid a ship of rats, is told in many languages. Also a pantomime.
intensive - intense, vehement, zealous
vocality - state of being voiced or vocalic + locality
dear brothers + dearbhbhrathair (drihar) (gael) - brother (lit. "true-brother," as distinct from brathair, brother-in-religion).
supper - one that sups (to take into the mouth in sips), sucker
sipper - one that sips, toper
spake - arhaic past of speak
compassionate - sympathetic, marked by compassion, pitiable
call up - to call to mind, recall, to bring into the mind by memory or imagination.
triad - group of three, trinity
precocious - prematurely developed in some faculty or proclivity
scaremonger - alarmist, one who spreads alarming reports
Spegulo ne helpas al malbelulo. Mi kredas ke vi estas prava, Via doto, la vizago, respondas fraulino (Esperanto) - A mirror doesn't help an ugly person. I believe you're right, Your dowry is your face, replies a young lady
habiliments - the apparel, vestments, or garments appropriate to any office or occasion; abilities, faculties, powers (of mind) (obs.)
Our Father - used as a name of the 'Lord's Prayer': = paternoster + farfar (Danish) - grandfather.
doyne - do; done; dozen + song Arthur of This Town [air: Irish].
broil - a confused disturbance, tumult, or turmoil; a quarrel
balefire - a great fire kindled as a signal; a beacon-fire
to blaze the trail - to mark (trees) with white by chipping off a piece of bark. Also to indicate (a spot or path) by such marks.
phrase airy nothing (William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream V.1.16)
burst- (ger) - brush
buckshee - something extra, free, or to spare; an allowance above the usual amount; alteration of baksheesh (Oriental term for: A gratuity, present of money, 'tip.')
to warm to - to become interested in, acquire zest for
soor ka batcha (Hindustani, slang) - son of a pig
tum (Hindustani, familiar) - you + hum (Hindustani, familiar) - me.
latitudinous - having latitude or breadth
beaver - a hat of beaver's fur
puggaree - a scarf of thin muslin falling down behind the hat as a shade
calaboose (U.S. Slang) = calaboosh (Beche-la-Mar) - common prison, jail
blong (Beche-la-Mar) - of
four in hand - a kind of necktie tied in a loose knot with hanging ends
bow - a necktie, ribbon
elbowroom - freedom of movement
surtout - a man's great-coat or overcoat
reface - to supply with a new front
unmentionables - trousers, underwear
ginger - a strong brown color + Tangerine - a deep orange colour.
state - regular, official; definitely recognizable
slate - a dark purplish gray color
gruff - coarse, coarse-grained; containing coarse or rough particles
linsey woolsey - a coarse sturdy cotton and woolen fabric, a garment of this material.
findrinny - white bronze, silver-bronze
Knopf (ger) - button
gauntlet - a stout glove, covering part of the arm as well as the hand
John Milton: Paradise Lost IX.780-781: (of Eve) 'So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat'.
D'Esterre - gunman sent by the Orange Corporation of Dublin to shoot O'Connell in a duel. O'Connell killed him + dester (obs) - the right hand.
to steal one's thunder - to appropriate or adopt for one's own ends something effective (as an idea or plan) deviced or thought out by another.
befitting - fitting, suitable, becoming, due + FDV: In befiting words a bit duskish flavoured with a smile [seeing that his thoughts consist of the cheery,] he aptly described the scene, among other things of passing interest the monolith rising stark from the twilight pinebarren, the bellwether angelus hour, the ditchers bent upon their implements, the fallow doe belling softly her milky approach as the hour was quite late and how brightly he outed his wallet and gives him a topping swank cheroot and says he was to suck that one brown boyo and spend a whole half hour in Havana.
Antilegomena - the word is used by Eusebius of Caesarea of those Scriptural books of which the claim to be considered a part of the NT canon was disputed; ...He has given us abridged accounts of all the canonical Scriptures, not even omitting those that are disputed (The Antilegomenoi) + legomena (gr) - sayings.
gleaming = a gleam - fig. A bright or vivid manifestation (of some quality, etc.)
duskish - rader dark or black, partially obscured
flavoured - mixed with some ingredient used to impart a flavour (smell, odour, piquancy, zest).
cheerio - a parting exclamation of encouragement; 'goodbye'; a salutation before drinking; = 'cheers'.
aptly - fitly, suitably, appropriately; readily
our first parents - Adam and Eve
suchen Sie [das] Weib (ger) - search for the woman
seene - synod, senate + scene
solance - solace
stilling - the action of making still, quietening; distillation, illicit distillation of spirits; trickling or falling in drops + stilling (Danish) - situation, pose.