grackle - a name applied to various birds originally included in the genus Gracula; jackdaw + crackles.
skim - remove from the surface ("skim cream from the surface of milk"); to coat (a liquid) with a layer
crock - crock-butter, butter salted and put down in a crock for winter use
sangwidges (Dublin Pronunciation) - sandwiches
gooseberry - the edible berry or fruit of the genus Ribes + FDV: and who seen the rest of the plum goosebellies and who leff that there and who put this here
mowld = mould - to cover (plant) with mould
measlest - poorest, blightest, inferiorest
Kilkenny - county in Ireland + To "fight like a Kilkenny cat" refers to an old story about two cats who fought to the death and ate each other up such that only their tails were left.
stale - to make or become stale; cheapen, to render common; steal (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation)
chump - the thick blunt end of anything; also chump-end: esp. the thick end of a loin of mutton + who let the cat steal the chop?
flure (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - floor + what in the name of Saint Luke are you rubbing the side of the floor of the lobby with?
shite - shit; nonsense
plateful - the amount a plate will hold + FDV: & who put the jam pot in the yard and whatareyou whatin the love of the whatin the name of Sin Pollareyou rubbing the flowerofthe sideofthe flowerofthe parlourwith Shite will you have a plateful?
tak (Danish) - thank you
component - serving or helping to constitute, constituent + (twelve months, *O*)
society + state + sociedad (Spanish) - society.
door boy - a boy who guards the door of a passage in a mine + January (named after Janus, the Roman god of doorways).
cleaner - one who cleans + February (named after Februa, the Roman feast of purification and cleansing).
sojer = soldier + March (named after Mars, the Roman god of war)
crook - swindler, a proffesional criminal + April (said to be named after Latin aperire: to open; crooks open locked doors).
squeezer - one who squeezes
lounger - idler
dogman - a man in charge of dogs + cur - a low-bred dog + July (dog-days).
August (touring and holiday)
September (peak mushroom season)
black and blue - discoloured by beating
tramp - one who travels from place to place on foot, in search of employment, or as a vagrant + October (grape trampling for wine).
gunpowder + November (Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot, 5 November).
Christmass box - a box in which contributions of money were collected at Chrismass (the box being broken when full and the contents shared) + December (Christmas and Boxing Day, 25-26 December).
prés salés (fr) - salt marshes
Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, once famous for its annual fair; a scene of uproar and disorder; a riotous or uproarious meeting + (eleven districts of Dublin, spiralling clockwise).
Prater - the name of a large wooded park in Vienna + pratum (l) - meadow + prater (Dutch) - talker.
roebuck - the male roe deer + Roebuck, district of Dublin.
campus - the grounds of a college or university; the open space between or around the buildings + campos (l) - field.
ager (l) - territory, district; field, improved land
Roundtown - another name for Terenure, district of Dublin
Crumlin - districts of Dublin, West
grassy - covered with grass, abounding in grass
Kimmage - district of Dublin
champ - champion; a field + champs (fr) - field.
ASHTOWN - Residential district North of Phoenix Park. Phoenix Park racecourse is just outside the park at Ashtown Gate.
CABRA - District, North-West Dublin. The Joyce family lived at No 7 St Peter's Terrace (now St Peter's Road), Cabra, in 1902-04. Mrs Joyce died there.
Finglas - district of Dublin
SANTRY - District, North Dublin.
RAHENY - District, North-East Dublin, North shore of Dublin Bay.
BALDOYLE - Village, North of Sutton and Howth; site of race course.
latecomer - one that arrives late + FDV: Who are the components parts of our whole who are latecomers by anticipation,
all the year round - thorough, thoroughout, from beginning to end
porter - one who carries burdens
in virtue of - by the power or efficacy of (something aiding or justifying); hence, in later use, by the authority of, in reliance upon, in consequence of, because of
ratiocination - reasoning + retroratiocinatio (l) - backward reasoning + FDV: are the porters of the passions in virtue of ratiocination and,
contribute - to give or furnish along with others towards bringing about a result
confligo (l) - to fight, contend + confligens (l) - striking one thing against another, opposing, conflicting.
vox - voice
vote - the collective opinion or assent of an assembly or body of persons
vaticination - a prediction of an oracular or inspired nature, prophecy + Vatican + FDV: unify their voxes contributing the conflingent controversies of differentiation, unify their voxes in the one voice of vaticination,
crunch - to crush or grind uder foot, wheels, etc. + FDV: who crack the crust of comfort due to depradation,
crust - a hard dry formation on the surface of the body, caused by a burn, an ulcer, or disease of the skin; a more or less hard coating, concretion, or deposit on the surface of anything.
due to - that owes its existence to, attributable to, owing to, in consequence of
depredation - plundering, pillaging, ravaging; also, plundered or pillaged condition (obs.)
drain - to drink (a liquid) to the last drops + FDV: quaff drain the meed of for misery to incur intoxication,
mead - an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting a mixture of honey and water
incur - to become through one's own action liable or subject to; to bring upon oneself
intoxication - the making drunk or inebriated; the condition of being so stupefied or disordered
condone - to forgive or overlook (an offence), so as to treat it as non-existent; esp. to forgive tacitly by not allowing the offence to make any difference in one's relations with the offender.
gratification - something given to gain favour, or as a recompense for anything done or to be done; a reward + FDV: condone every evil by practical justification condemn any good for its own gratification;
rope - to tie, bind, fasten, or secure with a rope + FDV: who are ruled, roped, _____,
dupe - to make a dupe of; to deceive, delude, befool
numen - a spirit believed to inhabit a natural object or phenomenon; a dynamic or creative force, genius; deity, divinity + in nomine domine (l) - in God's name.
daimon (from Greek daimôn, an equivalent of Latin numen) = demon - a supernatural being of a nature intermediate between that of gods and men; an inferior divinity, spirit, genius + FDV: by two angel demons,
fee - money
law - a conical hill or mound; a rule of conduct imposed by authority
consternation - amazement and terror such as to prostrate one's faculties; dismay
fornication - voluntary sexual intercourse between a man (in restricted use, an unmarried man) and an unmarried woman. In Scripture extended to adultery.
misericordia (l) - mercy, compassion
omni- - all, universall + FDV: feekeepers of their laws, preservation consternation, fornication, humiliation association and reexaltation recreation.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle + The Dáil, seat of government, Dublin.
deliberate - Of a body of persons: To take counsel together, considering and examining the reasons for and against a proposal or course of action.
sword - to arm with a sword
Matthias - one of the twelve apostles
Thaddaeus - one of the twelve apostles
Simon the Canaanite - one of the twelve apostles
John - one of the twelve apostles
Simon Peter - one of the twelve apostles
Andrew - one of the twelve apostles
Bartholomew - one of the twelve apostles
Philip - one of the twelve apostles
James the son of Zebedee - one of the twelve apostles + Mor (mor) (gael) - great; the Great + James Phillimore - name mentioned in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Problem of Thor Bridge + (nine Mors and three MacCarty’s).
Thomas - one of the twelve apostles
Matthew - one of the twelve apostles
James the son of Alphaeus - one of the twelve apostles + Mac Carthaigh (mok karhi) (gael) - son of Carthach ("loving") + Jacques McCarthy - journalist of Dublin Evening Herald, famous for wit.
Morpheus - Ovid's name for the god of dreams, the son of Sleep + Murphy - nickname for an Irishman.
yore - of old time, ancient, former + The Letter: how are you.
maggie - a girl + Cad's wife = Maggy (From Joyce's list of characters in I.2) + The Letter: well Maggy/Madge/Majesty.
lorn - abandoned, left alone; bereft of; lonely, desolate, wretched
lore - the act of teaching; the condition of being taught; instruction, tuition, education + (fourteen words forming a 'word-ladder': a string of words each differing by one letter from the next)
wive - to take a wife, get married; to be a wife, act as a wife
wile - a crafty, cunning, or deceitful trick; an amorous or playful trick; a deceit, a delusion
rile - to excite, disturb, to vex, annoy, make angry + FDV: they thank asking for still seeking as born for lorn in lose of love to live and wive the life of wife and wife wive in by wile and rile and rule by rune of ruse made rose and hose held home, but comes cometh elope year, coach and four, sweet peck-of-at-my-heart picks one man more.
ruse - a trick, stratagem
wreathed - formed or combined by twining or interweaving; entwined, intertwined