eirenarch - an officer charged with preserving the public peace
custos - a keeper, guardian, warden, custodian
Meg - a pet form of the female name Margaret, used dial. to indicate a hoyden, coarse woman, etc. + megas (gr) - big.
garrison + Sir Edward Carson - Ulster loyalist and opponent of Wilde.
old gang - a group or clique of friends or colleagues, esp. politicians, accustomed to supporting each other in matters of business or policy (colloq.)
off with = take or put off + off with you! = be off!
persians - outside window-shutters or blinds, made of light laths horizontally fastened in a frame, so as to be movable, like those of Venetian blinds + Persian slippers.
sinder = cinder (obs.) - an ember or piece of glowing coal, or similar substance, which has ceased to flame; pl. The 'ashes' of a dead body after cremation or decomposition + Sunder (ger) - sinner + synder (Danish) - sinner + sender's.
shrive - to confess one's sins, go to confession + shrouding sheet - a winding sheet (a sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial).
ho - an exclamation to attract attention
croak - to speak with a hoarse, hollow utterance; fig. to speak in dismal accents, talk despondingly, forebode evil (like the raven)
evildoer - one who does evil, a malefactor
doff - to take off or 'raise' (the head-gear) by way of a salutation or token of respect
Amsterdam + FDV: — Sir, to you? I am known throughout the world as a cleanliving man & I think our public at large appreciates it very highly that I am clean living and I have the sweetest wife on earth. As a matter of fact My clergyman can speak in high terms of my private life morals with the help of my wife I mean to say.
eterne - to make eternal, to eternize (obs. rare.) + Civitas Aeterna (l) - the Eternal City: Rome.
città (it) - city + SDV: — Sir, to you! I am brought up under an old act of Edward the First, but I am known throughout the world wherever good English is spoken as a cleanliving man and I think my our public at large appreciates it most highly of me that I am cleanliving & as a matter of fact I possess the sweetest little wife on the globe who won the consolation prize in the dreams of fair women competition handicap by 2 breasts.
heil - Used in the expression Heil Hitler! by the Germans during the Nazi regime.
bring up - to bring into the presence of authority; to bring before a tribunal, or for examination; to rear from childhood, to educate, breed
gammel (Danish) - old + (notebook 1924): 'I am brought up under an old act of Edw III' → Connacht Tribune 8 Mar 1924, 7/5: 'Publicans and Guard': (plaintiff's solicitor and defendant in a trial of abusive and threatening language) 'Mr. Colohan: I will put the husband up to give evidence of the abuse, your worship. Defendant: I object, as I don't think you can examine the husband in this case (laughter). I am brought up under an old Act of Edward III, which is defunct (renewed laughter)'.
out of print - Of a book: no longer available from the publisher; also used with reference to gramophone records.
Sitric Silkenbeard led the Danes to an ignominious defeat at the battle of Clontarf in 1014 + (notebook 1924): 'Dublin Mint Sitric Silkenbeard 1000' → Walsh: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period 19: 'In Dublin coins were minted for the first time in Ireland during the reign of Sihtric Silken Beard (c. 989-1042)'.
Amhlaoibh (oulev) (gael) - masc. personal name (Norse Olafr, in Irish since 9th c.); anglic. Humphrey + several Sitrics and Olafs were kings of Viking Dublin.
Ausculph Mac Torcall - king of Dublin in whose time Dublin became subject to England
pontifex - Rom. Antiq. A member of the principal college of priests in ancient Rome, the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus or chief priest + point of fact.
massimo (it) - greatest
Englisches (ger) - English + (notebook 1924): 'good E spoken'.
lachen (ger) - laugh + Lachs (ger) - salmon + Anglo-Saxon.
sall - shall + soll und will (ger) - should and will.
Augustan - connected with the reign of Augustus Cæsar, the palmy period of Latin literature + augustanus (l) - imperial + Saint Augustine.
ergastulum - a prison-like building on a large estate, used for housing slave workers + ergastulus (l) - convict.
rath - Irish Antiq. An enclosure (usually of a circular form) made by a strong earthen wall, and serving as a fort and place of residence for the chief of a tribe; a hill-fort + RATHFARNHAM - Former village, now South Dublin district + (notebook 1930): 'Farnham's rath'.
Drom Conaire (drum kunire) (gael) - Conaire's ("high-care") Ridge; N. Dublin district; anglic. Drumcondra + (notebook 1930): 'Condra's ridge " dram' (double inverted commas ditto 'Condra's'; the entry is preceded by a cancelled 'Counro').
Cluain Dealgain (klun d'algan) (gael) - Meadow of a Bodkin (masc. personal name ?); Dublin suburb; anglic. Clondalkin + (notebook 1930): 'Meadow of Dalken'.
monkish - of or belonging to monks; monastic + Monkstown - district of Dublin (between Blackrock and Dún Laoghaire) + (notebook 1930): 'Monkishtown' → Collins: Life in Old Dublin 2: (of Saint Patrick prophesying Dublin's future greatness) 'Harris, in his "History of Dublin," published in the year 1766, alludes to it, but only to sneer at "the monkish story"'.
fict - fiction + fact
by my life! (phrase)
at large - in general
average - some kind of service due by tenants to the feudal superior; Maritime use: orig. A duty, tax, or impost charged upon goods (obs.); Any charge or expense over and above the freight incurred in the shipment of goods, and payable by their owner.
perpetually - everlastingly, for all time
Ouija - a proprietary name for a board having the letters of the alphabet and other signs used for obtaining messages and answers in spiritualistic séances and in the practice of telepathy; Also (with lower-case initial) applied generally to spiritualistic spelling devices + (notebook 1924): 'ouidja board' → Travers Smith: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde 87: 'CHAPTER III. The Ouija Board'.
keep one's wicket up - (Cricket): to remain in, to continue one's innings (innings - that portion of the game played by either side while 'in' or at the bat: In Cricket also used of the play of, or score of runs made by, any one batsman during his turn) + "He kept up his wicket until the finish" + (notebook 1923): 'keep my wicket up'.
vera (it) - true
crim. con. - abbreviation of criminal conversation, i.e. adultery + Krim-Krieg (ger) - Crimean War.
malfeasance - wrongdoing, misconduct
trespass - a transgression; a breach of law or duty; an offence, sin, wrong
parson - a chaplain, a curate, any clergyman
chirp - to make a sound imitative of, or similar to, the chirp of a bird + (notebook 1924): 'Youthful girl friend 'Apples''.
cousines (fr) - female cousins
Kisilev Park, on the North side of Bucharest, is continuous with the Calea Victoriei.
Schlossgarten (ger) - palace garden + Lustgarten (ger) - pleasure garden + Joyce's note: 'Slotspark' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VI, 'Christiania', 280a: 'the beautiful Slotspark, a wooded elevation crowned with the royal palace (slot)'.
giglotte - Originally, a lewd, wanton woman (obs.); a giddy, laughing, romping girl + Giglottes-Hill, Dublin (now Saint Michael's Hill).
greenly - in an inexperienced or unskilful manner; unskilfully (arch.)
unripe - immature; not arrived at full development
annoyance - anything annoying or causing trouble
paha (Finnish) - bad + (notebook 1930): 'Baahaa' → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 248: (of Bahaism) 'nine is the sacred number of Bahaism. In fact the figure nine is actually formed... of the word Baha, the Glory, because in Arabic, letters are numerical symbols also. B is 2, A is 1, H is 5, and A is 1 again'.
"I then had a niece and a cat to comfort me---now I am nieceless and catless" + Needless to say, the shoulder f is thereby raised.
Babbyl (notebook 1930) + Babylonian market + Bab el Ma'la - gate of upper quarter of Mecca.
the trade (Slang) - prostitution
acquaint - to make oneself known, introduce oneself, become known (to any one) (obs.)
complaisance - desire and care to please; compliance with, or deference to, the wishes of others; obligingness, courtesy, politeness
apprise - to impart knowledge or information to; inform, acquaint
arrest - to stop, stay, remain, rest + have her arrested.
whipper - one who or that which whips, in various senses
Joyce's note: 'Tombs (city prison)' → 'Tombs': New York City prison.
D.M.P. - Dublin Metropolitan Police
lag man - the last man, the one who brings up the rear + lag (Slang) - convict + lagmen - judges in Dublin Thingmote + (notebook 1930): 'Lagman (Police)' → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 129: 'Gille the Lagman [or Law maker] of the Faroe Islands' (Norwegian lagmann: judge).
fact + (notebook 1922-23): 'as a matter of fact'.
popò (it) - shit + (stuttering).
little woman - one's wife
globelet - a small globe or globule + globes (Slang) - breasts.
romp - to play, sport, or frolic in a very lively, merry, or boisterous manner; to move easily and rapidly
flos mundi (l) - the flower of the world + Floss (ger) - raft + (notebook 1930): 'Flos Mundi' → Hardiman: The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway 238n: 'In May, 1519, the celebrated Maurice de Portu, alias O'Fihely, a native of Cork, who in 1506 was appointed archbishop of Tuam by Pope Julius II. landed in Galway from Italy... He was a man highly esteemed by his contemporaries for his virtues and learning, and was called "Flos mundi," or "Flower of the world," for his many excellent endowments'.
haram - the part of a Muslim dwelling-house appropriated to the women, constructed so as to secure the utmost seclusion and privacy + out of harm's way - out of the way of doing or of sustaining injury.
skinner - one that removes skins, pelts, etc. + Skinner's Alley, Dublin → "an oblate father from Skinner's Alley," [043.03]
consolation prize - now usually, a prize given to a competitor who has not won one of the stipulated prizes; also fig. + (beauty competition).
serial dreams' (notebook 1923) + Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Dream of Fair Women.
mannequin - a woman (or occas. a man) employed in the showrooms of dress-makers, costumiers, etc., to wear and show off garments
passe - past, past the prime; esp. of a woman: past the period of greatest beauty + pass - a way by which to pass or get through; a passage, road, route + passe (French Slang) - vulva + Manneken-Pis - statue in Brussels of a child urinating.
subsection - a division of a section
handicap - to place any one at a disadvantage by the imposition of any embarrassment, impediment, or disability + (notebook 1924): 'W won by 2 breasts if you know what I mean'.
endowment - a 'gift', power, capacity, or other advantage with which a person is endowed by nature or fortune + Werner: Brigham Young 285: (of the Mormon Endowment ceremony) 'When they received their endowments of celestial, eternal happiness, Mormons received a garment which was always to be worn next to the skin. It resembled very much the type of undergarment known as a combination, and was fastened with strings at various places'.
spurt - a sudden outbreak or outburst of feeling, action, etc. + sport - pleasant pastime; entertainment or amusement; recreation, diversion.
keenly - acutely, intensely, deeply + (notebook 1924): 'I love such'.