land - Angling. To bring (a fish) to land, esp. by means of a gaff, hook, or net.
slithery - slippery + scale - a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection + SDV: — Never a fear but ye'll they'll land him yet, slipperslide slipperyskin on liffeybank.
halve - to divide into two halves or equal parts + Revelation 12:14: 'her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent'.
bolster - to prop up, support, uphold + Polster (ger) - pillow.
sedge - grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers (PICTURE)
weedy - full of, abounding or overgrown with, weeds; of the nature of or resembling a weed + SDV: Do you think they will? I think 'm sure they will want to. Among the quivering shivering reeds sedges or? Flag Weedywaving Shivering Sedges or ___ where? The Or tulipfields of Rush above below?
Ros-eo (rusho) (gael) - Yew-tree peninsula; seaside resort, N. Co. Dublin + (notebook 1924): 'tulipfield Rush' → in 1895, Hogg and Robertson acquired forty acres at the town of Rush, County Dublin, for the cultivation of tulips and other flowers (bacame known as 'Holland in Ireland').
mug - any (large) earthenware vessel or bowl; also, a pot, jug, or ewer
Tommy, Lad! (song) + "Are you not gone ahome? What Thom Malone?" [215.32-33]
bubbly - full of bubbles + bubbly water - champagne (slang.)
babbly - full of babble, chattering, prating, garrulous + "Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night!" [216.04-05]
grenadier - a pomegranate tree; the fish Macrurus fabricii; Originally, a soldier who threw grenades. At first four or five were attached to each company, but, later, each battalion or regiment had a company of them. Though grenades went out of general use in the eighteenth century, the name of 'grenadiers' was retained for a company of the tallest and finest men in the regiment + {moving on to the three soldiers and the two maids - the voice of *I* emerges through Yawn, talking to her reflection}
Pope Gregory I, seeing English captives at Rome, called them 'not Angles but angels'
coexistent - existing together or in conjunction; coexisting; contemporaneous
compresent - present together + SDV: — Sh? Tell us & God bless you! Were they fusiliers or the duke of Cromwall's ___ who how many were they to at all that seen him? — Three in one. One and in three / Shem and Shaun & the shame that sunders them / Wise son. Folly's brother.
tertium quid - something (indefinite or left undefined) related in some way to two (definite or known) things, but distinct from both + tertium quid (l) - a third part.
Ulysses.9.850: 'They are sundered by a bodily shame so steadfast that the criminal annals of the world, stained with all other incests and bestialities, hardly record its breach' + (notebook 1924): '3 in 1 1 in 3 Shem & Shaun & the shame that sunders them Sham the rock & Shame the devil'.
ginger - high spirits, liveliness
wigglewaggle - the act of 'wiggle-waggling', a tremulous undulating motion, quivering, vibrating
slot - the track or trail of an animal, esp. a deer, as shown by the marks of the foot + slot (Danish) - castle.
burner - that part of an illuminating apparatus from which the flame comes + Dublin coat of arms has three flaming castles.
jinnyjos (Irish) - airborne seeds (e.g. dandelion's), thistledown + jo - joy, pleasure (obs.); As a term of endearment: A sweetheart, darling, beloved one + jinnies [008.31]
fay - fairy
Walker, John - bachelor of divinity, in 1804 he "separated himself from the Episcopal church of Ireland, and founded a sect called... by the profane, The Walkerites." He was a forebear of William Archer.
Patmos (gr) - island in Aegean used by Romans for banishment, scene of Saint John's Apocalypse. John wrote Revelation there; Revelation 1:9: 'I, John... was in the isle that is called Patmos' + utmost
apocalypse + apokalypsis (gr) - discovery, revelation; Greek title of John's Revelation.
naif - natural, artless, naïve + Naomh (Irish) - saint.
Cruachan (krukhan) (gael) - Little Hill; frequent place-name; ancient royal seat of Connacht, home of Queen Maedhbh ("Maeve") in Red Branch sagas + cruachan (gael) - diminutive of cruach ("symmetrical heap"): little porpoise-shaped fish found in tidal rock pools.
Ulysses.18.1220: 'worse and worse says Warden Daly'
valley + Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies: song: Go Where Glory Waits Thee [air: Maid of the Valley].
larking - the action of lark; fun, frolic + lurking + (Joyce's note): 'larking with a girl'.
trefoil - a plant of the genus Trifolium, having triple or trifoliate leaves; a clover
furry - resembling fur, fur-like, soft
glan (Cornish) = glan (Welsh) - riverbank, the side or brink of a river + glans - a small rounded gland-like structure, especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris + The Furry Glen, Phoenix Park.
stripping - that strips (to divest of clothing, to undress) + strapping - muscular and heavily built.
barmaids + SDV: — Ah, God, sure I thought he was larking with two fine young girls somewhere. I was given to understand there was a pair of them mad gone on him. Sure she was near drowned herself admiring herself in her admiration making faces at her likeness in the stream after, so all tossed as she was.
stilla (l) - drop + Stella Underwood - heroine of Charlotte M. Yong's The Pillars of the House (1873).
underwood - small trees or shrubs, coppice-wood or brush-wood, growing beneath higher timber trees + underwear.
Vanessa - genus of moths → Swift's Stella and Vanessa.
Mac Fhearadhaigh (mokari) (gael) - son of Fearadhach ("manly, virile")
rawnie (Gipsy) - lady + raw-kneed + Putzfrau (ger) - charwoman (a woman hired by the day to do odd jobs of household work) + pudsy - plump + frowzy - untidy, dirty.
superfluous hair - bodily hair considered to be unattractive in women, esp. on the face
begum - a queen, princess, or lady of high rank in Hindustan
clove - the dried flower-bud of Caryophyllus aromaticus, much used as a pungent aromatic spice. (Usually in pl.) + Clovis (466-511) - king of the Salian Franks, husband of Clotilda + clubs.
Carrick on Shannon + SHARON - The fertile plain of Palestine between Joppa and Mount Carmel. The "Rose of Sharon" of Song of Solomon 2:1 has been identified with various flowers, such as the crocus and narcissus + Cora Droma Ruisc (kore drume rushk) (gael) - Weir of Tree-bark Ridge; town, Co. Roscommon, irrationally anglic. Carric-on-Shannon.
Roscommon - Gael. Roscomain (roskuman): Coman's (diminutive of cam, "bent") Wood; county in Connacht, central Ireland, on Shannon.
She was drowned (notebook 1924) + drowned in a pond (as Narcissus did, in some versions, when falling in love with his reflection).
Tarpeian - denoting a rock-face on the Capitoline Hill at Rome over which persons convicted of treason to the state were thrown headlong
Tilley, Vesta (b. 1864) - stage name of Matilda Alice, Lady de Frece, who was a popular male impersonator in the music-halls
"I feel like a fish in a tank and am consumed with a great wish to make faces at them" + (notebook 1924): 'Were you making faces'.
Bach (ger) - brook, rivulet + back + spelled backwards; mirror image (*J*).
cooling myself in the element (notebook 1931) → Connelly: The Green Pastures 40: 'CAIN:... What was you doin' in dat tree? CAIN'S GIRL: Jest coolin' myself in de element'.
salices (pl.) (l) - willows + Alices.
Weide (ger) - willow; pasture + weido - obs. Sc. form of widow + Wehl (ger) - bay (water) + Weh (ger) - sorrow, pain + wehl - obs. form of wail (obs.) + widow's weeds (veils).
tossed - disordered; disturbed, troubled
playactress - a female actor of plays
lough - a lake, pool; a lake or arm of the sea + SHEELIN, LOUGH - Lake at junction of Cos Cavan, Meath, and Westmeath, South of Cavan Town. "Lough Sheeling" is the air to Thomas Moore's "Come, Rest In This Bosom".
shieling - a piece of pasture to which cattle may be driven for grazing; a hut of rough construction erected on or near such a piece of pasture
sælsom (Danish) - odd
brudlille (Danish) - little bride
narcissus - a bulbous plant, flowering in spring and bearing a heavily scented single white flower with an undivided corona edged with crimson and yellow
doater - one who dotes on, one foolishly fond + daughters + doors.
inversion - a turning outside in, introversion; In full, 'sexual inversion': Homosexuality + Necessity is the mother of invention (proverb).
Alice in 'Through the Looking-Glass' by Lewis Carroll
Dorothy Joy Lane Poole - child friend of Lewis Carroll + parlourmaids in later life.