semidetached - a semi-detached house; spec. Designating either of a pair of houses joined together and forming a block by themselves.

tradesman - one who is engaged in trade or the sale of commodities; esp. a shopkeeper

security - a guarantee that an obligation will be met; property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation + (notebook 1930): 'security for friend who absconded' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 268: 'Mr. V. became security for a sum of money for a friend of his who afterwards absconded and left Mr. V. to meet the payment'.

abscond - 'to hide oneself; to retire from the public view: generally used of persons in debt, or criminals eluding the law.' J.; to go away hurriedly and secretly

cottage - a small house with a single story + Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 34: 'This tenement shares... one closet with fourteen other tenements'.

illfamed - of bad fame or repute + Joyce's note: 'probably of ill fame' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 17: Remarks: Disreputable old woman, ill; ought to be in Workhouse. Hawks when able. Lodger pays 2s. 6d. or 3s. for lodging only. House very dirty, probably used as a house of ill-fame. Gets parish relief.

lodginghouse - a house, other than an inn or hotel, in which lodgings are let

Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 17: 'House cleaner than some'

teawidow pension but must continue to buy (notebook 1930) → Poverty 317: Mrs. X. [...] has 5s. per week from a "Tea Pension." (A Tea Company started a scheme under which a regular purchaser of a 1/2 pound of their tea per week on being left a widow is entitled to a pension of 5s. per week during her widowhood,–the only apparent condition for the continuation of this pension being that she continues to buy the regular quantity of tea each week.)

queery - how they live (notebook 1930) → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 23: 'Nine young children. Had parish relief stopped... Query - How they live?'

reputed - according to general belief; supposed, accounted, reckoned (to be something specified)

procure - to obtain by care or effort; to obtain (women) for the gratification of lust

occupant - someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

carry out - to bear out (a corpse) for burial + Joyce's note: 'last seven occupants "carried out"' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 53: 'The last three tenants have been "carried out" (i.e. died)'.

mate - a habitual companion, an associate, fellow, comrade + Joyce's note: 'mental companionship with mates' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 77: 'The husband commonly finds his chief interests among his "mates," and seldom rises even to the idea of mental companionship with his wife'.

aim - fig. To have it as an object, to endeavour earnestly. Const. at.

holes emitting mice (notebook 1930) → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 156: 'Wooden floor of upper room has large holes admitting numbers of mice.'

decoration - an ornament, embellishment; an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

Uganda - the name of a central African State

amblyopia - dimness of sight; impaired vision, generally from defective sensibility of the retina, or cloudiness of the media

goodmen - pl. of goodman (husband, innkeeper, landlord, mister) + (notebook 1930): 'Goodman's Field' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 168: 'the density of population per acre for certain of the most overcrowded districts of London... Whitechapel (Goodman's Fields)... 160'.

amission - loss (obs.) + horrible admission.

horrors

villein - one of the class of serfs in the feudal system; spec. a peasant occupier or cultivator entirely subject to a lord or attached to a manor

chartulary - a collection or set of charters; particulary, the large volume, or set of volumes, containing a duplicate copy of all charters, title-deeds, and like documents, belonging to a monastery, corporation, or other land-owner + D.A. Chart - Dublin historian, author of The Story of Dublin.

tallage - tax levied upon feudal dependants by their superiors

Great Seal - the seal used for the authentication of documents of the highest importance issued in the name of the sovereign or (in a republic) of the highest executive authority.

affix - From the affixing of a seal (actually attached by a strip of parchment, etc.) extended to: To impress a seal, stamp, or signature + (notebook 1930): 'caused the Great Seal to be affixed'.

farthest - most distant or remote + (notebook 1930): 'from the farthest of the farther of their father to their childrens' childrens' children'.

childrens' childrens' children (notebook 1930) → Booth: In Darkest England and the Way Out 43: 'The renovation of our Social System is a work so vast that no one of us, nor all of us put together, can define all the measures that will have to be taken before we attain even the Cab-Horse Ideal of existence for our children and children's children'.

"His forces now consisting of light horse only, unincumbered by artillery or heavy baggage" + (notebook 1930): 'unencumbered' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book II, ch. III: 'one Oloffe Van Kortlandt, who had originally been one of a set of peripatetic philosophers who passed much of their time sunning themselves on the side of the great canal of Amsterdam in Holland; enjoying, like Diogenes, a free and unencumbered estate in sunshine'.

BRISTOL - City, South-West England, on Avon River 8 miles from the Severn estuary. Earlier spellings: Bricgstoc, Brigstow, Bristowe + (notebook 1930): 'Wherfore I will and firmly command that they do inhabit it and hold it for me and my heirs firmly and quietly, amply and honestly, and with all the liberties and free customs which the men of Bristol have at Bristol, and through whole my land' → Charter of Henry II granting Dublin to the citizens of Bristol, 1172: 'Wherefore I will and firmly command that they do inhabit it, and hold it for me and of my heirs, well and in peace, freely and quietly, fully and amply and honourably, with all the liberties and free customs which the men of Bristol have at Bristol, and through my whole land' 

county of my city (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Bristol', 579b: 'Bristol, a city, county of a city, municipal, county and parliamentary borough, and seaport of England'.

hereto - to this matter, subject, etc.; with reference to or in regard to this point; (annexed) to this document, etc.

voucher - a written document or other material evidence, serving to attest the correctness of accounts or monetary transactions + (notebook 1930): 'voucher' → Peter: Dublin Fragments, Social and Historic 29: 'We give facsimiles of two particularly interesting vouchers for public balls' + (witnesses).

snuffbox - a box for holding snuff, usually small enough to be carried in the pocket + (notebook 1930): 'jackknife & snuff as warrant' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book III, ch. I: (of Governor Van Twiller presiding as a magistrate) 'he called unto his constable, and pulling out of his breeches proper a huge jack-knife, dispatched it after the defendant as a summons, accompanied by his tobacco box as a warrant'.

William Shakespeare: King Lear III.4.174: 'Fie, foh, and fum' + (notebook 1930): 'fees for farm' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 622b: 'In 1217 the fee farm of the city was granted to the citizens at a rent of 200 marks per annum'.

unwreaked - not revenged or requited, unavenged + [H]enricus Rex (l) - King Henry + Henricus Rex (signature on Henry II's charter).

wreck - anything that is broken down or has undergone wrecking, shattering, or dilapidation; Law. A piece or article of wreckage; a fragment of a wrecked vessel or its cargo; Freq. pl.

struggling - that struggles; In recent use often: That has difficulty in making a livelihood.

forlong - to be possessed with longing; to keep or continue longer, to prolong + furlong - a unit of length equal to 220 yards.

livramento (Portuguese) - liberation + + libramento (it) - balancing + (notebook 1930): 'Livramento' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXIII, 'Rio de Janeiro', 354a: 'The oldest part of the city... lies between... Sāo Bento, Conceicāo and Livramento hills on the N.'

mille - obs. form of mile + mille (l) - thousand.

manicipium (l) - formal possession + mancipio (it) - slave + manciple - a steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.

pompadour - a style of arranging women's hair, in which it is turned back off the forehead in a roll, sometimes over a pad + Madame de Pompadour - mistress of Louis XV of France. 

essency = essence (obs.) - foundation of being, that which constitutes the being of a thing; that 'by which it is what it is' + lieu d'aisances (fr) - public convenience.

tattle - to prattle as a young child; to talk without reticence so as to reveal secrets or private affairs; to blab, 'tell tales'

tall story - an unbelievable story

morganatic - the distinctive epithet of that kind of marriage by which a man of exalted rank takes to wife a woman of lower station, with the provision that she remain in her former rank, and that the issue of the marriage have no claim to succeed to the possessions or dignities of their father + morgen (Dutch) - morning; tomorrow.

litt = light (obs.) + lit (fr) - bed + litt (Norwegian) - a little.

serale (it) - of evening + cereal - a grain used for food, such as wheat, oats, or corn.

louch = loch (obs.) + louche (fr) - squint + locked + lodged.

blackmailer - one who blackmails

siège (fr) - seat, chair

Percival, Parsifal - Grail knight, subject of a Wagnerian opera + parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos (l) - to be sparing of inferiors, and to vanquish the arrogant: Rome's imperial mission (Vergil, Aeneid VI 853).

wauk - wake; walk

debell (Archaic) - vanquish

deem - to give or pronounce judgement, to act as judge

draggletail - slut

petty - minor, inferior; of secondary rank or importance + (notebook 1930): 'Petty courts Pentarch' (last word not crayoned) → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin: 'the five great roads, leading from different provinces, or petty kingdoms, to the seat of supreme royalty at Tara' + petticoats.

deemster (obs.) = doomster (Archaic) - a judge + (notebook 1930): 'doomster' → Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 156: 'The Isle of Man retains many relics of the Northmen. We find the Thingwall mount with its "doomsters," or "lagmen"'.

dustyfeet - a wayfaring paddler + Pie Poudre - court held at fair for quick treatment of hawkers (from French pied poudreux: dusty foot).

Guy's Hospital, Dublin + Guy Fawkes.

swathe - to wrap up, swaddle, bandage

slash - to cut or wound with a sweep or stroke of a sharp weapon or instrument

Fernando Gomez - a famous matador (Ulysses.18.626: 'the bullfight at La Linea when that matador Gomez was given the bulls ear') + Matthew 5:38: 'eye for an eye'.

loy - a kind of spade with heavily-tipped blade used for cultivating potatoes (used in Ireland, especially in Connacht; attempted murder weapon in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World) + loi (fr) - law.

Lynch, James Fitzstephens - warden of Galway who, in 1493, condemned to death and hung, with his own hands, his son Walter, who had murdered a Spaniard, Gomez. The story is told in Joyce's "The City of the Tribes."  

magnanimous - high-souled; lofty of purpose; noble in feeling or conduct. Now chiefly: Superior to petty resentment or jealousy, loftily generous in disregard of injuries + Mag-Mon - Tír na nÓg.

lawgiver - one who gives, i.e. makes or promulgates, a law or code of laws; a legislator

revolutionize - to bring (a country or state) under a revolutionary form of government; to change (a thing) completely or fundamentally + volucer (l) - flying, winged.

eruction - eructation, the action of eructing (lit. and fig.) + erections + volcano eruptions.

hayseed - the grass seed shaken out of hay + highways and byways + W.C.s.

graben - a depression in the earth's surface bounded by faults, a rift valley + Joyce's note: 'GRABEN' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51b: 'the Graben, one of the busiest thoroughfares, containing the most fashionable shops in Vienna' (Grab, Ger "grave"; Graben, Ger "trench"). 

Sheridan Circle (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349a: 'Among the principal residence streets are Massachusetts, especially between Dupont and Sheridan circles'.

Black Pitts - street, Dublin

pestered - troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

In the early 19th century, Pierre L'Enfant laid out the city of Washington on what was once a swamp + (notebook 1930): 'Lenfant' (replaces a cancelled 'l'Enfant') → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349a: 'The original plan of the city, which was prepared by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1755-1825)'. 

dum - obs. form of doom

Hearts of Oak (notebook 1930) → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 358: 'Registered Friendly Societies... Hearts of Oak.'

root - Of plants: To take or strike root + rest in peace.