Rechabite - one of a Jewish family descended from Jonahab, son of Rechab, which refused to drink wine or live in houses. Hence, one who abstains from intoxicating liquors; now spec. a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a benefit society founded in 1835 + (notebook 1930): 'Rechabites' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 358: 'Registered Friendly Societies... Rechabites'.
obstain - obs. erroneous forms of abstain (to refrain from the use of alcoholic beverages)
clayed - turned to clay, clay-like
pine - mental suffering; grief, sorrow + shrouded - concealed, veiled; enveloped in a shroud + (notebook 1930): 'wooden shrouds - 1733' → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1733: 'The custom of burying in wooden shrouds introduced' (possibly a typo for 'woollen').
Waste not, want not (proverb)
lento - in a slow manner (direction in music), a direction indicating a movement slower than Adagio + silent + Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies, song: The Song of Fionnuala: 'Silent, oh Moyle'.
morgadh (morgu) (gael) - putrefaction, decay + City Morgue, Dublin.
quo warranto - (Med.L. 'by what warrant') a King's Bench writ formerly in use, by which a person or persons were called upon to show by what warrant he or they held, claimed, or exercised an office or franchise + (notebook 1930): 'quo warranto' → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1686: 'The city charter renewed by James II. under a quo warranto'.
Sullivan - Lord Mayor of Dublin + his grace, my sovereign.
puissant - possessed of or wielding power; having great authority or influence; mighty, powerful + (notebook 1930): 'puissant' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VI, ch. III: 'the copper-bound cocked hat of the puissant Van Poffenburgh'.
Viking + kind regards.
fluster (ger) - whisper
play second fiddle - to have a lower or less important position (when compared to another person)
nomen (l) - (1) name; (2) middle of three names borne by freeborn Romans + Nemo (l) - Nobody: name Ulixes gave himself + second to none (phrase).
gentilicius (l) - pertaining to a particular clan or gens + nomen gentilicum (l) - middle of three names born by a freeborn Roman, signifying his gens.
Arms - heraldic insignia or devices, borne originally on the shields of fully armed knights or barons, to distinguish them in battle (hence properly called armorial bearings), which subsequently became hereditary, and are the property of their families.
crest - Her. A figure or device (originally borne by a knight on his helmet) placed on a wreath, coronet, or chapeau, and borne above the shield and helmet in a coat of arms.
frisch (ger) - fresh + fish + (notebook 1930): '2 young frish'.
etoile - Her. A heraldic charge consisting of a star with wavy points or rays + étoile (fr) - star + (notebook 1930): 'Etoile twelve' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 806a: 'The Place de l'Étoile is the centre of twelve avenues radiating from it in all directions'.
flippant - sportive, playful (obs.); nimble, moving lightly or alertly (obs.)
devoided - divested, made void + devoiler (fr) - to unveil.
habiliment - anything worn as an ornament; pl. The apparel or garments appropriate to any office or occasion; Applied also, jocularly or grandiloquently, to ordinary clothes + (notebook 1930): 'Destruction of their habiliments' → Collins: Life in Old Dublin 78: (of two ladies assaulted by Billy in the Bowl) 'Their confusion, and the destruction of their habiliments, together with the rude efforts the villain was making to possess himself of their valuables, at first rendered them powerless' (REFERENCE).
vested - clothed, robed, spec. in ecclesiastical vestments
sable - Her. Black, as one of the heraldic colours.
withdrawer - one who withdraws, in various senses of the vb.; spec. in Sc. Church Hist., one who did not conform to the established church in the 17th century + drawers - a garment for the lower part of the body and legs: now usually restricted to under-hose worn next the skin.
argent - Her. The silver of a coat of arms; the silver or white colour in armorial bearings.
boss - the convex projection in the centre of a shield or buckler
coleopter - a member of the Coleoptera (a large and important order of insects, distinguished by having the anterior pair of wings converted into elytra or hard sheaths which cover the other pair when not in use; the Beetles).
pendant - hanging; overhanging; jutting or leaning over + ponderans (l) - weighty, heavy + potent
fesse (fr) - buttock + fesse-wise (Heraldry) - in manner of fesse (third of the field, enclosed by two horizontal lines).
blazoned - painted with a heraldic device; transf. and fig. Conspicuously or brilliantly displayed.
sinister - Her. Forming, or situated on, the left half of a shield (regarded from the bearer's point of view).
slough - Of a serpent or similar reptile: To cast or shed (the skin) as a slough; to exuviate.
terce - obsolete, archaic, or variant form of tierce (Her. Charge composed of three triangles, usually all of different tinctures, arranged in fesse, also in bend; the division of a shield by lines into three equal parts) + (notebook 1930): 'a terze of'.
lancer - a (cavalry) soldier armed with a lance + lancier (fr) - lancer.
unsheathed - Of a weapon: Drawn from the sheath.
shaft - the long slender rod forming the body of a lance or spear, or of an arrow; the penis (slang.)
saltire - an ordinary in the form of a St. Andrew's cross (an x-shaped cross); Hence, in saltire: crossed like the limbs of a St. Andrew's cross.
embusk - to place in ambush (obs. rare.)
sinople - the colour green; spec. in Her., vert
portent - that which portends or foretells something momentous about to happen, esp. of a calamitous nature + letters patent - an open document issued by a monarch or government conferring a patent or other right.
hery - to praise, glorify, exalt + heri (l) - yesterday.
crass - Of personal qualities, ideas, and other things immaterial: Gross, grossly dull or stupid, 'dense' + cras (l) - tomorrow.
hodie (l) - today + the motto means: yesterday, tomorrow, even today + Evoe! (l) - a cry of joy of the Bacchantes.
SDV: It were idle to inquire whether I am the product of group marriage or team work and [, surrounded by obscurity,] I claim my naturalborn right [at common law] to opt for ____ I mean to say, had my faithful wife Fulvia turned back on her ways in search of brunette men or had she left her crocus bed at the suggestion of some infamous fishermen there might be advantage to ask but she always did did always ensue whatsoever pertained unto fairness and I did encompass her about, my vermin breeder, with lovingkindness and with soft goods and hardware and hosiery finehosiery lines and all daintiness at teatime & bright suns pigmy suns for supperhour & spiceries for her aged garbage breath, [to my saffron saffronbreathing mongoloid I gave] a ewer handewers & loinscrapers [and a currycomb for her frizzy], clubmoss and with wolvesfoot for her moister places and an earthcloset for her weekly sabbath needs [I did learn my little country mouse her letters [alphabeater cameltenter [birch ashenbirch to hazelyou,]] with a rattan to on her drum, ooah oyir oyir oyir,] and I did spread for her my selvage mats of soft lawn and I planted for her a vineyard and fenced it about with Chesterfield elms and I brewed for her strong double x Dublin lindubl lindub [to split the spleen of her maw & I restored for her her paddypalace [& added therunto a [shallow] layer to put out her hellfire]] and I gave unto laid down before my eblanite waggonways [of the stone] whereon the hinny and the mule and the many donkeys the jennet and the pooka and the capal and the hobbies wen pran stepped lively for her pleashadure and she laughed at the cracking whistling zwitchering switchering of the whip.
repass - to pass again into a previous state, through a place, etc.
Elserground (Joyce's note) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Vienna', 51a: 'Alsergrund, with the enormous general hospital, the military hospital and the municipal asylum for the insane, is the medical quarter'.
disposition - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
dragged - esp. (colloq.) in sense 'physically exhausted'
forced - compelled, imposed, or exacted by force + first
group marriage - a primitive form of familial relationship hypothesized by some anthropologists in which certain groups within a tribe were considered husbands and wives.
holo- - complete, total + holocryptic - wholly hidden or secret; spec. of a cipher incapable of being read except by those who have the key + cryptogram - anything written in cipher, or in such a form or order that a key is required in order to know how to understand and put together the letters.
Essene - one of an ancient Jewish sect, characterized by certain mystical tenets and ascetic practices, and by a cenobitical life
ouzel - In 1695 the merchant ship "Ouzel Galley" left Dublin and for several years nothing was heard of her. She was presumed lost and the insurance was paid. In 1700, she returned to Dublin with valuable cargo and a story of having been captured by Algerian pirates and later recaptured by her Irish crew.
galley - a low flat-built sea-going vessel with one deck, propelled by sails and oars, formerly in common use in the Mediterranean
borne - With prefixed n., as air-, carrier-, chair-, glider-borne.
huddled - crowded together without order; all in a heap
til = till (obs.); conj. or short for until + tilsammen (Danish) - altogether.
be - obs. and dial. form of by
mass production - the production of manufactured articles in large quantities by a standardized process + (notebook 1924): '*V* mass product'.
teamwork - work done by persons working as a team, i.e. with concerted effort + Joyce's note: 'team work' → Irish Statesman 23 Feb 1924, 754/1: 'Gaelic Plays at the Abbey': 'Pierce Beasley's Cluiche Cartai was given... There was good team work in this play. Not one actor was weak'.
surtout - a man's great-coat or overcoat
petticoat - the wearer of a petticoat, a female + praecox (l) - ripe before time, premature + *VYC* and *IJ*.
trine - a group of three, a triad; Astrol. A trine aspect. Phr. in trine + trebled in three.
doubled in two
abram - auburn + abram (Slang) - naked + John 8:58: 'Jesus said unto them... Before Abraham was, I am'.
Roy, Rob - Scottish outlaw, title of Scott's novel
faineance - the quality or condition of being a fainéant (one who does nothing; an idler. Often with allusion to the rois fainéants, 'sluggard kings', a designation of the later Merovingians) + Chart: The Story of Dublin 18: (King Roderick O'Connor had a) 'somewhat fainéant character' + Fenians.
Werner: Barnum 60: 'The Correct Likeness of the Fejee Mermaid... a Japanese fisherman who joined the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish' (dead specimen with ape's head exhibited by P.T. Barnum in 1842).
graft - Surg. To transplant (a piece of skin, tissue, etc.) into a different part of the body, or from one animal to another.
sexes surrounded with obscurity (notebook 1924)
virtus = pl. of virtu - a knowledge of, or interest in, the fine arts + virtus (l) - courage; manliness, strength; valour, virtue.
boon - a favour, a gift, a thing freely or graciously bestowed
freeman - one who is personally free, one who is not a slave or serf + Freeman's Journal - Dublin newspaper.
journeyman - one who, having served his apprenticeship to a handicraft or trade, is qualified to work at it for days' wages; a mechanic who has served his apprenticeship or learned a trade or handicraft, and works at it not on his own account but as the servant or employee of another; fig. (chiefly depreciatory): one who is not a 'master' of his trade or business.
besit - to sit properly upon (as a dress): to fit, suit, become
reclamo (l) - to cry out against, contradict loudly + (notebook 1930): 'reclaim' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVIII, 'Washington', 349b: 'Potomac Park (740 acres)... has already been reclaimed from the Potomac river'.
opt - to choose, make choice (between alternatives); to decide (for one or other of two alternatives)
simultaneous - existing, happening, occurring, operating, etc., at the same time; coincident in time + SDV: and [, surrounded by obscurity,] I claim my naturalborn right [at common law] to opt for ____
Solomon, Simeon - symbolist painter of the '90s whose works include one of a couple of pre-Raphaelitish females - Night with stars in her hair, Day with a golden aura. On it is painted: "Until the Day Break and the Shadows Flee Away." These girls become the "two young fish" on the Dublin crest.
hek = heck (obs.) - euphemistic alteration of hell
verily - in deed, fact, or reality; really, truly
numb - deprived of feeling, or of the power of movement, esp. through excessive cold + number + {four telephone operators (*X*)}
"Dedicated to the Society of Spare-Pennies."
sraoth (sri) (gael) - sneeze + three.
clear - free from encumbering contact; disengaged, unentangled, out of reach, quite free. In such phrases as to get or keep (oneself) clear.
pro- - pre, taking the place of
tele (gr) - at the distance, far off + vox (l) - voice + telephone.
taubstumm (ger) - deafmute
annoying - troubling, disturbing, causing annoyance
Fulvial (l) - "Blonde": name of wife successively of P. Clodius, C. Curio and Mark Antony + fulvia (l) - blonde, yellow.
vein - Of things: To extend over or through (something) after the manner of veins + Wien (ger) - Vienna.
if Liffey had turned back? (notebook 1924) → Metchnikoff: La Civilisation et les Grands Fleuves Historiques 209: 'The Oriental or Arabic wall presses it still closer, so that at the end of its long and glorious career the Nile does not turn its torrent away towards the Red Sea, something which would have been fatal for Egypt and for the history of the entire world'.
gon - obs. inf. (etc.) of go + (notebook 1924): 'go on the hills' → Freeman's Journal 23 May 1924, 6/7: 'THE TERROR IN MAYO. Brutal Treatment of a Man and Family Recalled': 'The applicant deposed that on August 31, 1922, a large number of armed men came to his house. They wanted his son, who was only 16 years of age, to go on the hills with them, but witness refused to let him go'.
uphill - an ascent, a high or steep rise + (notebook 1930): 'Alp runs up hill' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VI, ch. VIII: (of the battle of Fort Christina) 'even Christina Creek turned from its course, and ran up a hill in breathless terror'.
louver - Chiefly pl. An arrangement of sloping boards, laths or slips of glass overlapping each other, so as to admit air, but exclude rain + lovers + louve (fr) - she-wolf.
brunette - of dark complexion, brown-haired; nut-brown + Joyce's note: 'brunette men'.
Ireland + (notebook 1924): 'Iraland' → Walsh: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period 28: 'the name Ireland (O.N. Iraland) is Scandinavian in form and replaced the old Irish word Eríu during the Viking period' + William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar III.2.73: 'lend me your ears'.
Chief White Elk (notebook 1922-23) → Irish Times 21 Dec 1922, 6/6: 'Red Indian Leader's Visit to Buckingham Palace': 'Dr Teewanna, the Chief White Elk, Leader of the Red Indian tribes of British Columbia'.
the name Dublin derives from Irish dubh linn: black pool
fluvia (l) - river
crocus - a light reddish purple; any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers (PICTURE) + Joyce's note: 'left her bed' → Metchnikoff: La Civilisation et les Grands Fleuves Historiques 187: 'as soon as the Hwang-ho had passed the town of Kaifoung-fou, it ceased to be a river and made inhabitable the vast triangle bounded on the north by its present course towards the gulf of Pe-chih-li, on the south by the bed it had left some thirty years earlier'.
prowling - that prowls + strolling - that strolls; wandering, roving, itinerant.
byway - a way other than the highway; a side road; a secluded, private, obscure, or unfrequented way + SDV: or had she left her crocus bed at the suggestion of some infamous fishermen