visualize - to form a mental vision, image, or picture of (something not visible or present to the sight, or of an abstraction)
hidebound - fig. Of persons, their minds, etc.: Restricted in view or scope, narrow, cramped; hence, bigoted, obstinately set in opinion.
homely - having a feeling of home, cozy and comfortable; plain, unadorned, commonplace; unpolished, rough, rude + homily - a sermon.
creed - an accepted or professed system of religious belief
crux = cross, in heraldic and other expressions; fig. a difficulty which it torments or troubles one greatly to interpret or explain, a thing that puzzles the ingenuity; the chief problem + Ku Klux Klan + HCE.
watch + wash.
morning + mørkning (Danish) - nightfall.
breac (brak) (gael) - speckled; trout; any fish caught by hook + brack (Anglo-Irish) - speck (from Irish: breac).
toilet - dress, costume, 'get-up' + twilight.
testificate - a writing wherein a fact is attested, a certificate
rutty - lustful + Rutty, Dr - eccentric 18th-century' Dubliner, who extolled virtues of mineral waters.
subjugation - fig. Intellectual or moral subjection; reduction to a state of subserviency or submission.
congenital - existing or dating from one's birth, belonging to one from birth, born with one + cunnus (l) - cunt + cunnilingus - stimulation of the female genitals using the tongue or lips + subjugation of congenital lust → cold baths to distract boys' attention from sex, as used (alongside compulsory sport games) in English public schools.
toll → "so tolloll Mr Hunker you're too dada for me to dance" [065.17] + (good-bye).
Barbados - name of an island (formerly a British colony) in the West Indies. When Cromwell dispatched the "mere Irish" "to hell or Connaught" after 1652, thousands were also deported into virtual slavery in Barbados.
wi' - Sc. and dial. abbrev. f. with + (notebook 1924): 'to hell with ye'.
Eireann (erun) (gael) - g. [of] Ireland + herring.
copulation + kopros (gr) - dung + SDV: — To holl wi' ye & yer coprulation coprulating! Pelagiarist! You're obsexed, man! So ye are!
pelage (gr) - sea + pelage (l) - hairy covering of a mammal + (notebook 1924): 'plagiarise' + (notebook 1924): 'Pelagianism' → Kinane: St. Patrick 70: 'The Pope now sent St. Germanus as legate, accompanied by St. Lupus of Troyes, and Patrick, to extinguish... the Pelagian heresy'.
remonstrant - inclined or tending to remonstrate, urging reasons in opposition to something; of or belonging to the Arminian party in the Dutch Reformed Church
Montgomery, Henry - 19th century theologian and professed Arian (i.e. denied consubstantiality of Father and Son), founder of Remonstrant (Calvinist sect) Synod of Ulster + Montgomery Street, Dublin (in Nighttown).
ab- - from, away, off + (notebook 1924): '*V* obsexed about it' + obsessed.
macroglossia - a progressive enlargement of the tongue, with protrusion from the mouth
microcephalic - having an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain + syphilis.
Leixlip - village and salmon-leap on Liffey + SDV: — Wait now, Leixlip. I don't follow you so far. Now, You are taking us into the future or are you not? - the fisheries question? / — The gubbernator! Gubbernator! - and he was nothing short of it! Spawning all over this the seven parishes! / — J.
scent - fig. To perceive as if by smell; to find out instinctively; to detect.
egoism - Ethics. The theory which regards self-interest as the foundation of morality; Also, in practical sense: Regard to one's own interest, as the supreme guiding principle of action + archaicism - ancient style or quality + egoarchikismos (gr) - doctrine of putting the self first + "anarch, egoarch, hiresiarch, you have reared your disunited kingdom" [188.16]
esox - the name of a large fish mentioned by Pliny (app. identified with the Sturgeon); the Corpus Glossary (a 800) renders the name by lax, i.e. salmon. In mod. Ichthyology used as the generic name of the Pike.
lucius - obs. form of luscious + lucius (l) - the pike + (notebook 1924): 'Esox Lucius (pike)' → Irish Times 29 Mar 1924, 9/6: 'Esox Lucius': 'It was Esox lucius, fresh-water shark, commonly known as pike, angry at being disturbed'.
salmo (l) - salmon + Salmo ferox - great lake trout (lives in deep lakes).
ferax (l) - fertile, prolific + (notebook 1924): 'Salmo Ferox' → Freeman's Journal 18 Jun 1924, 8/5: 'By the Way': (of a salmon that fought a fisherman for more than 7 hours before being tricked into a navigation canal) 'The upper lock was immediately closed, the water let off at the lower - and Salmo ferox was left high and dry'.
taxi - to ride in a taxicab + (notebook 1924): 'you are taking me into the future'.
driven - urged onward, impelled, etc.
ready-made + Rutty.
fishery - collect. Fish of different kinds (nonce-use) + Joyce's note: 'salmon fishery pastime'.
lalia (gr) - speech, chatter; talkative, babbling
Laelia (l) - Crassus' mother-in-law
lilia (pl.) (l) - lilies + "a lone a last a loved a long the" [628.15-16]
Lola Montez - (b. 1818, Limerick, Ire.--d. Jan. 17, 1861, New York City), Irish adventuress and "Spanish" dancer who achieved international notoriety through her liaison with King Louis I of Bavaria.
gubernator - a ruler, governor + (notebook 1924): 'gubernator' → Czarnowski: Le Culte des Héros, Saint Patrick 37n: (quoting Saint Patrick's Confession) 'Et alio die coepit gubernator mihi dicere' (French 'And on another day the helmsman began to say to me') + gubernator (l) - helmsman (the person who steers a ship), navigator.
Fenian - one of an organization or 'brotherhood' formed among the Irish in the United States of America for promoting and assisting revolutionary movements, and for the overthrow of the English government in Ireland.
parasol - a light portable screen or canopy carried as a defence from the sun + Persse O'Reilly.
spawn - Of fish, etc.: To cast spawn.
ova - plural of ovum (an egg in the widest sense, including the eggs of birds, but more commonly applied to the extremely small germs of female mammals, or to the eggs of oviparous animals when of small size, as in fishes, insects, etc.)
fry - young fishes just produced from the spawn
monach - an affected substitute for 'monk' + monach (Irish) - guileful + Merry Monarch - Charles II.
around + merry go round - fig. A 'whirl' + SDV: — The gubbernator! Gubbernator! - and he was nothing short of it! Spawning all over this the seven parishes!
ribald - offensively abusive, scurrilous, wantonly irreverent or impious
barony - the domain of a baron; In Ireland: A division of a county.
Daniel O Connell + óg (Irish) - young + Conal - son of Niall of the Nine Hostages.
(notebook 1924): '*V* = Hosty'
mark - a character made with a pen, usually a cross, used by illiterate persons in place of a signature
RUNNYMEDE - The meadow on the bank of the Thames River near Egham, Surrey, England, where king John signed the Magna Carta in 1215 + ready-made.
dondervisch (Dutch) - thunder fish
Magna Carta - The Great Charter of English personal and political liberty, obtained from King John in 1215, repeatedly confirmed, and appealed to in all disputes between the sovereign and his subjects, till the establishment of constitutional government + (great carp).
is het niet zoo? (Dutch) - is that not so? isn't that so?
SDV: — Have you heard of the psalmsinging psalmsobbing salmoner / Fogeyborn Herren Plunderowath Plunderus Humpalout. / How he went floundering & sploundering all his adowltherers adowtherated spunk about / Floundering Racing mad Leaping frek freck after every longtom & Lizzy between here Howth & Humbermouth / the The Our Human Conger Eel / Have you heard / There's an old psalmsobbing salmoner / Fogeyborn Herring Plunderus / Who went floundering & sploundering his boatloads of spunk about / Leaping freck after every longtom & wet lizzy from Howth to Humbermouth / The Human Conger Eel
psalmsinger - one who sings psalms; spec. one who maintains the singing of (biblical) psalms (as opposed to hymns) in public worship
herring + Herr (ger) - Mr + hooggeboren heer (Dutch) - (form of address).
Pluderhose (ger) - wide trousers + SDV: Fogeyborn Herring Plunderus
flounder - to move on with clumsy or rolling gait, to struggle along with difficulty
boatload - a boat's full load
spunk - seminal fluid (coarse slang.) + SDV: How he went floundering & sploundering all his adowltherers adowtherated spunk about
freck - desirous, eager, lusty + fresh + SDV: Floundering Racing mad Leaping frek freck after every longtom & Lizzy between here Howth & Humbermouth
Long Tom - Austral. A marine fish of the family Belonidæ + Joyce's note: 'long Tom' + tom (Slang) - penis.
Humber mouth (notebook 1924) + Humber river, England.
conger eel - a large species of eel living in salt water and attaining a length of from six to ten feet; it is caught for food, being common on the coasts of Britain and other European countries, but rare along the American coast of the Atlantic; Applied in abuse to a man + eel (Slang) - penis.
hep - Usu. hep, hep! The cry of those who persecuted Jews in the 19th century + {Speaker: Matthew}
noo = now + fishnet + Vishnu - second god of Vedic triad, reincarnated on earth as half-man, half-fish for some time during and after flood + Blavatsky: The Secret Doctrine II.307-313: 'Vaivasvata Manu is the Indian Noah connected with the Matsya (or the fish) Avatar of Vishnu... Vishnu is shown in the allegory as guiding, under the form of a fish, the ark of Vaivasvata Manu' [.32].
whippy - resembling a whip; esp. bending like a whip, flexible, springy + (notebook 1924): 'whippy (lenza)' (Italian lenza: fishing-line).
play - Angling. To give play to (a fish); to allow (it) to exhaust itself by pulling against the line + SDV: — Hep! Hold that lad! Hep! Play him! Hep.
bullhead - a small freshwater fish with a large head (Aspidophorus cataphractes); any of various North American fresh-water fish of the genus Amiurus.
quill - the float of a fishing-line, made of a quill + (notebook 1924): 'olive quill black' → Connacht Tribune 7 Jun 1924, 4/8: 'THE RISE OF THE FLY': (of types of fishing-flies) 'The green drake fly has already risen, and has been followed by the olive quill, the yellow hawk, and the black quill'.
Malin - Gael. Malainn (molin): Hill-brow, Co. Donegal; the northernmost point of Ireland.
way - a call to a horse to stop
lungfish - a fish having lungs as well as gills, a dipnoan
cumulus (l) - heap + Finn MacCool is, by name and thumb, connected with the finny tribe. As Fintan, he was a salmon; as Finn, he got his thumb of wisdom from touching a mythical salmon - hence the steady connection of salmon-Solomon. + "He [Joyce] once asked me to paint for him a salmon (an avatar of HCE) A salmon is a wonderful thing," he said to me." (Frank Budgen).
manoeuvre - an action aimed at evading an enemy; a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill + Vaivasvata Manu + SDV: — Whoop! Pull, you, sir! A One moment now. Did we land him he rise then?
dee - name of the letter D + Dee river + Saint Patrick landed at the mouth of the Vartry river, previously the Dea river + "the" (at the end of the book).
Romulus + homunculus - a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal; a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell.
Remus (l) - brother of Romulus
play the ape - to imitate, esp. in an inferior or spurious manner, to counterfeit, mimic the reality
bompresso (Italian) - bowsprit (Of a sailing vessel: A pole or spar extending forward from the vessel's prow) + "till with his runagate bowmpriss he roade and borst her bar." [197.34-35]
pull one's leg - to deceive someone
bunk - to sleep in a bunk; hence, to occupy rough sleeping quarters, camp out
butt - a buttock
skid - to slide without control, as of a car that does not grip the road
berth - to moor or place (a ship) in a suitable position; to allot a berth or sleeping-place to (a person)
byrnie - armour for the body, a cuirass, corslet, coat of mail + burnie (Scottish) - little brook.