seven hilled - standing on seven hills: epithet of the city of Rome + EDINBURGH - the Caledoniam metropolis, is ringed by 7 hills: Braid Hills, SW; Blackford Hill, SW; Calton Hill, E; Liberton Hill, SE; Craiglockhart Hills, SW; Corstorphine Hill, W; Arthur's Seat, SE.
barely - nakedly, without covering, nudely
centri- - center + punt (Dutch) - point.
[ge]habt (ger) - had
seaven = seven (obs.) + (notebook 1930): 'circumference 7 ½' → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1746: 'The circumference of Dublin ascertained to be seven miles and a quarter'.
circumference - measure or distance round
inceptive - relating to or of the nature of a beginning, initial; Geom. Used of a locus deficient in some particular dimension, but generating by its motion another which has that dimension.
prospect - a spectacle, a scene; the visible scene or landscape; a long, wide, straight street; an avenue of houses + Prospect Hill, Galway.
Blackrock - coastal urban district five miles south of Dublin city center
Thursitt, R. - probably not a person but Arthur's Seat, a hill in Edinburgh + (notebook 1930): 'Calton Hill Liberton Blackford Braid Craiglockhart Corstorphena Arthur's Seat' (the first two words are connected by line to the rest, bypassing an uncrayoned entry) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 937b: 'To the east rises Calton Hill... On the south-east... stands the hill of Arthur's Seat... to the south, Liberton Hill, Blackford Hill, Braid Hills and Craiglockhart Hills roughly mark the city bounds, as Corstorphine Hill and the Water of Leith do the western limits'
chart + chert (Russian) - devil + D.A. Chart - author of The Story of Dublin + Churt of Saint Nicholas Within, Dublin (mentioned in 'The Story of Dublin').
Nicholas - early Christian saint (died 326 a.d.), bishop of Myra in Lycia, regarded as the patron of scholars, esp. of schoolboys
within - that which is within or inside (esp. fig.)
dome - a house, a home; a stately building, a mansion; a cupola + Dome - a well-known Parisian café (108 boulevard du Montparnasse) [.07]
"Thou light, wherewithout all things are deepe darcknesse" + whereabouts.
Michan - St Michan's church in Dublin has a vault full of well-preserved corpses which are shown to tourists (described in The Story of Dublin)
tor - a craggy hill; a high rock; a pile of rocks, gen. on the top of a hill; a rocky peak + (notebook 1930): 'awful tors' → Eiffel Tower, Paris [004.36]
well worth buildings (notebook 1930) → Woolworth Building, New York City [004.35]
spring - to attain to a certain height or point by growth
spear - to rise up like a spear
spire - a tall structure rising from a tower, roof, etc., and terminating in a slender point; esp. the tapering portion of the steeple of a cathedral or church, usually carried to a great height and constituting one of the chief architectural features of the building.
cupola - to furnish or construct with a cupola + William Shakespeare: The Tempest IV.1.152: 'cloud-capp'd towers' + La Coupole - a well-known Parisian brasserie (102 boulevard du Montparnasse) [.05]
campanile - a bell-tower; esp. applied to the lofty detached bell-towers of Italy; a steeple generally + The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin (bell-tower).
finance + fine ounce - unit of troy measure (gold).
impost - a tax or similar compulsory payment; spec. a customs-duty levied on merchandise + imports.
scruple - a thought or circumstance that troubles the mind or conscience
gat - a revolver or other gun; pa. tense of get (v.)
outrageously - to an immoderate degree, excessively, extravagantly + out of reach.
murage - a toll or tax levied for the building or repairing of the walls of a town
lestage = lastage - a toll payable by traders attending fairs and markets (Obs. exc. Hist.) + (notebook 1930): 'lestage murage' → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 34: (of Henry II) 'In 1174... Henry granted to his burgesses of Dublin 'freedom from toll, passage, portage, lestage, pavage, murage, quayage, carriage and all custom, for themselves and their goods throughout his entire land of England, Normandy, Wales and Ireland''.
main - the most important part of some business, subject, argument, or the like; a principal channel, duct, or conductor for conveying water, sewage, gas, or electricity, e.g. along the street of a town. The pl. mains is freq. used, esp. attrib. and in Comb., in a collective sense: the public supply, esp. the electricity supply + means + (notebook 1930): 'mains' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXII, 'Rangoon', 891d: 'In 1892 was introduced the sewage system, which now includes 6 m. of mains'.
tithing - payment of tithes (tenth part of the annual produce of agriculture, etc., being a due or payment (orig. in kind) for the support of the priesthood, religious establishments, etc.) + (notebook 1930): 'tithing of our lord' → Hine: The History of Hitchin I.24: 'at Michaelmas or Candlemas Day, perhaps, the Steward will arrive to hold the Manor Court... Woe betide those who fail to answer to their names when the roll of inhabitants is called for the tithing of our lord the King'.
drain - a channel by which liquid is drained or gradually carried off; esp. an artificial conduit or channel for carrying off water, sewage, etc.
render - a return in money or kind, or in some service, made by a tenant to the superior
prender - the power or right of taking a thing without its being offered + (notebook 1930): 'Render and Prender' → Hine: The History of Hitchin I.54: (quoting Sir Edward Coke in 1650) 'The favourable hand of time... hath so enfranchised these copyholders, that whereas in Saxon times their services did consist wholly in Feasance, now they consist in Render, in User, and in Prender'.
dole - a gift of food or money made in charity
tribute - a tax or impost paid by one prince or state to another in acknowledgement of submission or as the price of peace, security, and protection; rent or homage paid in money or an equivalent by a subject to his sovereign or a vassal to his lord + (notebook 1930): 'Tributary' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 938d: 'tributary streams have been covered in and built over'.
mint - a place where money is coined; usually, a place where lawful money is coined under the authority and direction of the state; a piece of money, a coin, money (obs.) + nearly out of my mind.
percussor - a small instrument for medical percussion, a percussion-hammer + percussor (l) - one who hits, a murderer + (notebook 1930): 'percussor monetae' → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 99: (of Dublin Castle) 'A Mint was more than once established in the Castle, and the Master of the Mint, percussor monetae, resided therein'.
braincup - the upper part of the skull
much - to make much of; to pet, fondle, caress
Morley (John, first Viscount Morley of Blackburn): The Life of Gladstone + more by token - still more, the more so (dial.)
ready money - coined money, cash, as being immediately available for use; also, immediate payment in coin for anything bought
Mont-de-Piété is French "pawnshop" + (notebook 1930): 'mont-de-piété' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 810d: (of municipal departments) 'pawnbroking (the mont-de-piété)'.
payback - the fact or action of paying back; reward or return, spec. the net return in profits from an investment project equal to the initial capital outlay + Pays-Bas (fr) - Netherlands.
florin - an English gold coin of the value of six shillings or six and eightpence, issued by Edward III (Obs. exc. Hist.); an English silver coin of the value of two shillings, first minted in 1849 + foreigners
hughe = huge (obs.) + Huguenot - a member of the Calvinistic or Reformed communion of France in the 16th and 17th c.; a French Protestant (settled in Ireland in 17th century via Netherlands).
matt (ger) - defeated, exhausted + met + Matthew.
pepst - 'Apparently a term for intoxicated' + chest + Papst (ger) - pope.
Bartholomew - name of one of the twelve apostles, the festival in whose honour is held on the 24th of August; on this day, in 1572, took place the great massacre of the Protestants (Huguenots) in France.
milreis - formerly, a Portuguese gold coin and money of account equal to 1,000 reis; also, a Brazilian silver coin
onfall - an attack, assault, onset. (lit. and fig.); a fall of rain or snow + Anfall (ger) - attack, seizure + lit. auffall- (ger) - are noticeable, remarkable.
look + Luke.
arose - pa. tense of arise
Daniel - Hebrew prophet captive in Babylon (famous for his interpretation of Nebuchadenazzar's dreams) + Daniel in lion's den.
Belfast + Budapest - capital of Hungary.
Cork city + Calcutta, India.
attaboy - an exclamation expressive of encouragement or admiration + ata (Turkish) - father, ancestor + bey (Turkish) - sir, Mr (after name) + Place Atabeh, Cairo.
brave - to meet or face (danger) with bravery; to encounter, defy
Brian Boroimhe (brien borivi) (gael) - Brian of the Tribute; anglic. Brian Boru.
berow - to row round + boramha (borue) (gael) - "cow-counting": tribute.
Lochlainn (lokhlin) (gael) - Scandinavia, Norway + Lochlainnigh (lokhlini) (gael) - Scandinavians.
Tolca (tulke) (gael) - Flood, Torrent; N.E. Dublin river, site of battle of Clontarf; anlglic. Tolka.
Fag an bealach! (fag a' byalokh) (gael) - Leave the way! Clear the way! + fag-an-bealach (gael) - worthless person + bolg (bulug) (gael) - belly + Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies, song: To Ladies' Eyes [air: Fague a Ballagh] + Firbolgs - legendary Irish colonisers.
jusqu'au bout (fr) - to the end, all the way through + usquebaugh (Anglo-Irish) - whiskey + Lusk - village, County Dublin (Leinster).
ire - wrath, anger; obs. or dial. f. iron + Matthew 5:38: 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth' + Ireland.
damage + Dane + (notebook 1930): '*M* *A* front tooth' (both sigla not crayoned) → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 11: (of Sitric, the Danish king of Dublin, and his Irish wife, the daughter of Brian Boru, watching the battle of Clontarf) 'as the Danish forces were driven into the sea, she remarked sarcastically to her husband, 'It appears to me the foreigners have gained their inheritance,' a remark which is said to have cost the lady one of her front teeth'.
revelry - the act of revelling, merry-making; boisterous gaiety or mirth
ridotto - an entertainment or social assembly consisting of music and dancing; Introduced into England 'in the year 1722, at the Opera House in the Haymarket' (Busby Dict. Music), and a marked feature of London social life during the eighteenth century.
redoubt - dread, fear; a species of out-work or field-work, usually of a square or polygonal shape, and with little or no means of flanking defence; a keep or stronghold into which a garrison may retire when the outworks are taken, and so prolong the defence of the place.
Weg (ger) - way + schicken (ger) - to send + wegschick- (ger) - to send away.
reshockle + reshackle (notebook 1930).
roi Napoleon
Walhalla - var. Valhalla + V. Hugo: "Waterloo, Waterloo, morne plaine!"
plein = plain (obs.)
Warschau (ger) - Warsaw + waarschuwen (Dutch) - to warn + schouw (Dutch) - inspection.
thole - to endure without resistance or complaint; to submit with patience to
plumbate - Of or pertaining to a type of glazed and usu. lead-coloured pottery made in pre-Columbian central America + legate + plumbum (l) - lead (for bullets).
relief - release from some occupation or post of duty
Praha (Czech) - Prague + (notebook 1930): 'prahars'.
Acropolis - the elevated part of the town, or the citadel, in a Grecian city; esp. that of Athens + corpus (l) - body.
fast (ger) - almost + breakfast.
needer - one who needs + nieder (ger) - lower + thorpe - village, hamlet + The old town of Zurich is the Niederdorf (literally German 'lower village').
Fairview - district of Dublin (NORTH)
Joyce's note (notebook 1930): 'sloboda' + sloboda (Serbian) - freedom + sloboda (Russian) - suburb + James Joyce: A Portrait V: 'sloblands of Fairview'.
rank - to arrange or draw up (persons, esp. soldiers) in a rank or in ranks
Rath Garbh (ra gorev) (gael) - Rough Fort; S. Dublin district; anglic. Rathgar + (notebook 1930): 'I let faireviews in on Slobodens but ranked rothgarders round wrathminesers' (the 'e' of 'dens' overwrites a cancelled 'a'; 'but' replaces a cancelled 'and'; 'rothgarders' replaces a cancelled 'rothgartenders'; the 'es' of 'esers' overwrites a cancelled 'd'; the entry is marked 'p 14 last bottom line', referring to the typescript of Haveth Childers Everywhere).
Westminster - The Palace of Westminster; hence, Parliament, of which the Palace is the seat + Rath Maoinis (ra mwenish) (gael) - Magnus' Fort; S. Dublin district; anglic. Rathmines.
BADEN - (1) Spa in Lower Austria, 14 miles South-West of Vienna; known as spa since Roman times. (2) Baden-Baden, 18 miles South-West of Karlsruhe, Germany; known as spa since Roman times + badend (ger) - bathing.
mendicity - the state or condition of a mendicant or beggar, beggary; the practice or habit of begging + (notebook 1930): 'I bathand baddened on mendicity and I cowcured off the onoculated' ('on' and 'the' are interpolated into the entry).
coro- - pupil of the eye
unocular - one-eyed + inoculated - Path. Of a person, etc.: Having undergone inoculation (the introduction into the body, by puncture of the skin, or through a wound, of the virus or germs of an infectious disease) + inoculatus (l) - eyelass, unseeing + unoculatus (l) - one-eyed (cf. Cyclops).
ad libitum - at one's pleasure; to the full extent of one's wishes, as much as one desires
Salisbury Plain, site of army exercises
hunker - to squat, with the haunches, knees, and ankles acutely bent, so as to bring the hams near the heels, and throw the whole weight upon the fore part of the feet; transf. To cower or squat in a lowly manner.
peeper - one who peeps or peers; esp. one who looks or pries furtively, a prier + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1807: 'The Prince of Wales Parkgate packet. and Rochdale transport, with 300 passengers, wrecked at Dunleary; all souls on board lost, except the captain and the crews'.
twa - OE. and Sc. form of two + 'Wi' a Hundred Pipers and A' and A'' (song).
sleek - to make (the skin, hair, etc.) smooth and glossy + sleeping
nightingales + (nightdresses) + spin one's wheels (U.S. colloq.) - to mark time, to do nothing productive.
slumbered - wrapt in slumber; unconscious (rare.)
tum - an imitation of the sound made by plucking a tense string, as in a musical instrument, or by striking a drum, or the like; also as vb. trans. and intr. to produce this sound + turn a deaf ear - to refuse to listen.
murmell - murmuring (obs.) + Murmel (ger) - murmur, whisper.
mews - a set of stabling grouped round an open space, yard, or alley, and serving for the accommodation of carriage-horses and carriages + muses + (notebook 1930): 'mews'.
belua (l) - monster, huge wild beast
zoom - to make a continuous low-pitched humming or buzzing sound
Tenducci - 18th-century castrato who made his reputation singing "Water Parted from the Sea." In 1766 he married an Irish girl in Cork and their union was blessed with offspring + dulcis (l) - sweet.
water parted (notebook 1930) → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 253: (of 18th century castrato tenor Tenducci) 'the great aria of an Italian named Tenducci in Dr. Arne's opera of Artaxerxes... was ridiculed by the Dublin gamins in the street song - 'Tenducci was a Piper's son, And he was in love when he was young, And all the tunes that he could play Was "Water parted from the say!"'
flute - to whistle or sing in flute-like tones + Flut (ger) - flood + Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 253: (of 18th century Dublin) 'The craze for opera is probably hinted at by Goldsmith in She Stoops to Conquer, when the bear-leader says his bear 'will only dance to the very genteelest of tunes, the minuet in Ariadne, or "Water Parted".''
West Indies
gorge - the internal throat; A narrow opening between hills; Fortif. The neck of a bastion or other outwork + ST GEORGE'S-IN-THE-FAST - London church. In 1860, "No Popery" protesters filled the church Sunday after Sunday, interrupting the services by singing "Rule Britannia," throwing orange peel and walnut shells during services.
strife - a contest or conflict, a quarrel or dispute + Psalms 31:20: 'strife of tongues'.
ourangoutang - an anthropoid ape, Simia satyrus, of arboreal habits, inhabiting Borneo, Sumatra, and formerly Java + Rangoon.
Sackville Street, Dublin
The Inner City of Pest (part of Budapest on the left bank of Danube) is Belvaros, containing the square Esku-Ter.
Ofen (ger) - oven + Ofen - German name of Buda, the western half of Budapest, Hungary + often.
burgh - Originally = borough; now restricted to denote a town in Scotland possessing a charter + MECKLENBURG - Former German state, a duchy since 14th century.
varos (Hungarian) - town, city + Belváros - inner city of Budapest, Hungary.
forbed = furbished - brushed, polished + forbedre (Danish) - improve + sight forbid.
tuberculosis + (notebook 1930): 'tubercolrosis' (the entry is preceded by a cancelled 'tubercolsis') → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354d: 'for the five years 1900-1905... Among the deaths 2789 were from tuberculosis'.