megalopolitan - of or pertaining to a megalopolis or the way of life characteristic of large cities [(notebook 1930): 'megalopolitan'].

politeness + Dublin Metropolitan Police.

I Corinthians 13:13: 'but the greatest of these is charity' + (notebook 1930): 'charities' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 622a: 'The Roman Catholic Church has charge of a number of special charities'.

devalorize - to lower the value of + De Valera + devalorised base money.

base - low in the moral scale; reprehensibly cowardly or selfish, despicably mean + (notebook 1930): 'the base fellow' → Collins: Life in Old Dublin 78: (of two ladies' encounter with Billy in the Bowl) 'watching his opportunity, the base fellow attacked them'. 

curtailment - the reduction of expenditures in order to become financial stable + (notebook 1930): 'his curtailment' → Collins: Life in Old Dublin 77: (of Billy in the Bowl) 'Nature had compensated for his curtailment by giving him fine dark eyes, an aquiline nose, and a well-formed mouth, with dark curling locks, and a body and arms of herculean power'.

Inner, outer, lower man are jocularly used to denote parts of the physical frame of a person + (notebook 1930): 'defect of his lower man' → Collins: Life in Old Dublin 79: (of two ladies' encounter with Billy in the Bowl) 'yet with all his strength, the defect of his lower man gave the unfortunate ladies an advantage'.

slog - a vigorous blow; a hard hit at cricket + "Heavenly weather really. If life was always like that. Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades. Over after over. Out. They can’t play it here. Duck for six wickets. Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg' (Ulysses.5.561).

square leg - the position in the cricket-field to the left of the batsman and nearly in a line with the wicket; the fielder stationed at this point

Botany Bay - proper name of a place in New South Wales, formerly a convict settlement + Botany Bay - quadrangle in Trinity College, Dublin.

mes - proper distance or range for shooting + (notebook 1930): '24 Dublins' → Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 29n: 'there are twenty-four Dublins in the United States'.

Yank - colloq. abbreviation of Yankee

huckle - to haggle in bargaining + Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn.

recipe - Med. A formula for a medical prescription + recipiens (l) - taking back, getting back; regaining + receiving

ominous - marked or attended by evil omens, disastrous; of doubtful or menacing aspect or appearance + omomi (gr) - Persian plant used in offerings to Ahriman (identified with moly) + anonymous.

petition - a written supplication from an individual or body of inferiors to a superior, soliciting some favour, privilege, right, or mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance + (notebook 1930): 'widelysigned petition' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 309: (of magistrates and licenses for public-houses) 'Their action in refusing further demands for new licences has been usually supported by widely-signed petitions from the local inhabitants'.

pottery - the products of the potter's art collectively; pottery-ware, earthenware + poetry

thingumbob - Used (in undignified speech) to indicate vaguely a thing (or person) of which the speaker cannot at the moment recall the name, or which he is at a loss or does not care to specify precisely.

inchant = enchant - to exert magical influence upon; to bewitch, lay under a spell.

causerie - informal talk or discussion, esp. on literary topics; also, a chatty article or paragraph

feschest (German Colloquial) - smartest

choirboy - a boy who sings in a choir, a chorister + Feis Cheoil (fesh khyol) (gael) - Festival of Music: annual competitive musical convention. Joyce sang in the Feis Ceoil in Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin, in 1904.

Palast (ger) - palace + plastered - covered with, treated with, or formed of plaster + pilaster - a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached.

attent - variant of attempt (obs. rare.) + attends! (fr) - wait!

couch - to cause to lie down, to lay down (a person, oneself, one's head, etc.) + couche! (fr) - lay to bed!

becket - to fasten or secure by beckets; a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other, used to secure loose items on a ship + bygget (Danish) - built.

Vanderbilt - rich Americans + wonder built.

hutch - a small confined place or compartment occupied by a human being; applied contemptuously to a hut or cabin, or humorously to a small house

Morningside (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 939d: 'In the south side are the Grange, Newington or Echobank, and Morningside cemeteries'.

encompass - to surround entirely

mushroom - any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium + Ulysses.8.491: 'Kerwan's mushroom houses'.

Rest & Be Thankful (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 940b: 'Corstorphine Hill — from one point of which ("Rest and be Thankful") is to be had one of the best views of Edinburgh'.

lily - fig. Applied to persons or things of exceptional whiteness, fairness, or purity; e.g. a fair lady; the white of a beautiful complexion + Matthew 6:28-29: 'Consider the lilies of the field... That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these'.

veldt - in South Africa, the unenclosed country or open pasture-land + field

Balkis - Queen of Sheba

disclose - to open up to the knowledge of others; to make openly known, reveal, declare (secrets, purposes, beliefs, etc.)

missy - an affectionate or playful appellation for a young girl: used chiefly by servants and the like; occas. contemptuous

fief - Feudal Law. An estate in land (in England always a heritable estate), held on condition of homage and service to a superior lord, by whom it is granted and in whom the ownership remains.

villa - Orig., a country mansion or residence, together with a farm, farm-buildings, or other houses attached, built or occupied by a person of some position and wealth; a country seat or estate; in later and more general use, a residence in the country, or in the neighbourhood of a town, usually of some size and architectural elegance and standing in its own grounds.

Ostmanorum (Gen. pl.) (l) - of the Ostmans (Turks'); of the Ostmen (Vikings')

recte - correctly: used to indicate that the word or phrase following it within a parenthesis is the correct version of that which immediately precedes the insertion

Sraid Thomais (srad' humash) (gael) - Thomas Street: One of Dublin's most ancient streets (formerly Drom Coll-Choille, "Hazelwood ridge"), in the Liberties West of Christchurch Cathedral.

huggin - the hip-bone, esp. of a horse or cow + Hogan Place, Dublin.

pleaze - obs. irreg. f. place

Inglis - usual 14-16th c. Sc. and north. form of English (a. and n.) + form of riding the franchises in White Book of Christ Church, Dublin, gives 'southward as far as William English his house' (mentioned in Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh: A History of the City of Dublin).

de - The French preposition de, d', meaning 'of, from', occurring in names of places, as Ashby de la Zouch, in territorial titles, as Earl Grey de Wilton, Lord Talbot de Malahide...

THE CASTLE - Dublin Castle, was first built on the site of an early Danish fortress by Henry de Londres, ca 1220; Originally a rectangular fortress, with 4 towers and a moat fed by the Poddie River, it was extensively rebuilt, esp in the 18th century + (notebook 1930): 'de Loundres' → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 38: 'To John Comyn, who died in 1212, succeeded as Archbishop of Dublin Henry de Loundres, or the Londoner, who became Viceroy in the following year'.

barony - the domain of a baron

saltus - a break of continuity + saltus (l) - (1) leap, bound; (2) forest-pasture, woodland; mountain-valley; female pudenda + (notebook 1930): 'Barony of Saltus' → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 55n: 'Confey, in the county of Kildare, near Leixlip, (the Danish Lax-lep, Salmon Leap), in the barony of Salt (Saltus Salmonis)'.

bonder - a Norwegian peasant farmer or petty freeholder [(notebook 1930): 'bonder' → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 160: 'the godi sat with his "lagmen," the armed "bonders," and freemen standing around'].

(notebook 1930): 'foeburghs' (the entry is preceded by a cancelled 'fau', where the 'a' further overwrites an 'e') → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 805c: 'Outside the Grands Boulevards lie the faubourgs or old suburbs'.

helot - Gr. Antiq. One of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between the ordinary slaves and the free Spartan citizens; transf. A serf, a bondsman + (notebook 1930): 'helot zelots' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book V, ch. VII: 'A pale bilious orator took the floor... He was one of those furious zealots who blow the bellows of faction until the whole furnace of politics is red-hot with sparks and cinders'.

zelot - one who is zealous or full of zeal; an immoderate partisan, a fanatical enthusiast; a member of a Jewish sect which aimed at a Jewish theocracy over the earth and fiercely resisted the Romans till the fall of Jerusalem in a.d. 70.

strutting - fig. Swelling with pride or importance.

og (og) (gael) - young + o (o) (gael) - descendant, grandson.

Mack - Used contemptuously for: A Celtic Irishman + (notebook 1930): 'Strutting O & Swaggering Mac' → "Neither 'O' nor 'Mac' shall strutte ne swagger thro' the streets of Galway" - the native Irish were excluded from Galway by an ancient English ordinance [Hardiman: The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway 20n: (quoting from a 16th century Anglo-Norman by-law intended to keep native Irishmen out of Galway) 'That neither O, ne Mac, shoulde strutte ne swagger, throughe the streetes of Gallway'].

D'Arcys - one of the fourteen 'tribes of Galway'

Jeames - obs. form of the personal name James

drury - a beloved person, 'love', sweetheart + Drury Jones - Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Jones - one of the commonest British family names, used esp. in the plural to designate one's neighbours or social equals + John

(notebook 1930): 'redmaids bluecoats' (one of two entries inspired by Madrid [553.36]).

blue coat - one who wears a blue coat; a blue-coated soldier or sailor; a policeman; a scholar of a charity school wearing the almoner's blue coat + cott - obs. f. coat + (notebook 1930): 'Blue Coat School' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 621d: 'The hospital and Free School of King Charles I., commonly called the Blue Coat hospital, was founded in 1670. It is devoted to the education and maintenance of the sons of citizens in poor circumstances'.

hommage - obs. f. homage (reverence, dutiful respect, or honour shown; In Feudal Law, Formal and public acknowledgement of allegiance, wherein a tenant or vassal declared himself the man of the king or the lord of whom he held, and bound himself to his service).

felony - villany, wickedness (obs.); (Feudal Law.) An act on the part of a vassal which involved the forfeiture of his fee + (notebook 1930): 'homage & felony' → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1488: 'Sir Richard Edgecombe arrives in Dublin to take the homage and oaths of fealty of the great men of Ireland'.

Brigham Young's account of Noah admitting people to Ark: 'all who have received tickets are aboard'.

overcrowded - crowded too much + Joyce's note: 'Fair home overcrowded' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 21: 'Fair home, but overcrowded'.

tidy - Of things, esp. of a house, room, receptacle, etc.: Neatly arranged, with nothing in disorder or out of place + Joyce's note: 'Tidy but overcrowded' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 21: 'Tidy but overcrowded'.

bread and butter - a slice of bread and butter (dial.) + Joyce's note: 'dead sick of bread and butter' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 281: 'She... complains of being "dead sick of bread and butter - nothing but bread and butter, until I hate the sight of it"'.

militia - Orig., the distinctive name of a branch of the British military service, forming, together with the volunteers, what are known as 'the auxiliary forces' as distinguished from the regular army.

mental strain from reading work on German physics (Joyce's note) → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 255: (quoting from Hutchinson's Food and the Principles of Dietetics) 'A man was confined in a respiration calorimeter for a number of days, and on certain of them he engaged in the severe mental work of reading a German treatise on physics... It was found that on the working days bodily waste was not greater than during rest'.

dwelling - a place of residence; a dwelling-place, habitation, house + Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 35: 'This house shares one closet and one water-tap with eight other houses'.

comfortable - satisfactory; also colloq. 'tolerable', 'fair' (obs.)

relief - assistance in time of difficulty; aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped + Joyce's note: 'gets parish relief' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 17: 'Gets parish relief'.

"Darling, you're not going to turn me into a rabbity little wage-earner, are you?"

shaven - shaved; Chiefly of the head, crown, or of a person; often = tonsured + Joyce's note: 'just out of prison' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 17: 'Young son wants situation, just out of prison'.

Montgomery Street, Dublin

Joyce's note: 'planning new departure in cyclefinishing' ('cyclefinishing' is preceded by a cancelled 'bi'; fourth word not crayoned).

eldest - firstborn, oldest + Joyce's note: 'eldest son will not serve' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 37: 'Man... will not work; dirty' + James Joyce: A Portrait V: 'I will not serve, answered Stephen'.

peruse - to read through or over; to read thoroughly or carefully; hence (loosely) to read.

Big-Man-Up-in-the-Sky stuff (Joyce's note) → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 430: (of Hopgood of the Atheist movement) 'He calls the Bible a cesspool of Asiatic superstition, says that in three hundred years there won't be a church in America, and is hell-bent to rid the land of the Big-Man-up-in-the-Sky stuff'.

scrap - a small picture, cutting, etc. to be put in a scrap-book or used for ornamenting a screen, box, or the like + scrap book - a blank book in which pictures, newspaper cuttings, and the like are pasted for preservation. Hence occas. as the title of a printed book of miscellaneous contents.

up and down - having an uneven or irregular surface, consisting of ups and downs; fig. Alternately rising and falling + Joyce's note: 'an oop-an'-a-doon' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 152: 'a two-roomed house (usually called "an oop-an'-a-doon")'.

lacking - Of things: not at hand, missing.

backway - a way at the back, or leading to the back, of any place + Joyce's note: 'no backway' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 151: 'Occasionally there is no back way, and all ashes and refuse from the midden privy have to be removed through the living-room. Under existing bye-laws, however, a back entrance to every house is insisted upon'.

quasi - seemingly, or in appearance, but not really

ragman - a rag-gatherer, rag-dealer + Joyce's note: 'paid ragman in bones for faded window curtain' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 55: 'Old garments, cast off by some wealthier family, are sometimes bought from the ragman for a few coppers; or perhaps they are not paid for in cash, but some older rags and a few bones are given in exchange for them... she once bought a pair of old curtains from the ragman for 3d'.

light up - to furnish or fill with abundance of light; to bring into prominence by means of light + Joyce's note: 'stairs incessantly lit up with guests' ('incessantly' replaces a cancelled 'always').

refuse - rubbish or worthless matter of any kind + Joyce's note: 'house lost in dirt blocked with refuse' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 49: '"house lost in dirt"... The closets in this yard are blocked with refuse'.

Roe's Distillery, James Street, Dublin + like a house on fire - as fast as a house would burn, very fast or vigorously.

slovenly - slipshod, habitually or naturally careless in dress or personal appearance; untidy + Joyce's note: 'slovenly wife' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 50: 'Slovenly wife'.

adults going in with jugs (Joyce's note) → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 322: (of a public-house) 'The whole of the drink sold for "off" consumption was fetched by the children; no adults went in with jugs during the three days'.

in business for himself (Joyce's note) → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 48: 'Butcher... Formerly in business for himself, but trade was not good'.

illegitimate - a bastard + Joyce's note: 'relief stopped for illegitimacy' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 23: 'Nine young children. Had parish relief stopped for illegitimate child'.

correspondence - intercourse or communication by letters

chuck - to give up, get rid of

row - a noisy quarrel + Joyce's note: 'Chucked work over row' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 33: 'Chucked his work over a row'.