thumb and five fingers + {fifth interlude - the screen goes blank}
reconstitute - to constitute anew, to restore the previous constitution of
bowl - a drinking vessel + Paul + Old King Cole (nursery rhyme): 'his pipe... and his bowl'.
Peter the Packer - Lord Peter O'Brien, Chief Justice of Ireland, who packed juries against the Land League + pack up - to stop working; to give up an enterprise; to surrender; to die; to cease to function; to collapse.
present - the present time, the time that now is; the thing or person that is present
as regards - so far as relates to, so far as it concerns
absence - the state of being absent or away (from any place); also the time of duration of such state
everlastingness - endless existence; perpetual continuance; eternity
x - unknown (algebra)
ad (l) - to + as it were.
stillhead - quietness + stilhed (Danish) - silence.
blank - fig. A vacant space, place, or period; a void.
shut up - to shut one's mouth, to stop talking; Often in imperative + {back to the tavern - the host begins his apologia}
down - to come or go down, to descend; to drink down + damn well + Judges 6:40: 'and God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground' (Gideon) + SDV: Shutmup. And bud did doom well right. And if he sung dumb in his glass darkly speech lit face to face on all around.
sing dumb - to be silent, hold one's peace + Ulysses.11.786: 'But Bloom sang dumb' + Daniel 10:15: 'I set my face towards the ground, and I became dumb' + (Butt stopped talking but those around him spoke).
glass - grey + I Corinthians 13:12: 'For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face'.
darkly - dark-looking, somewhat dark
lit - to colour, dye; to stain; to blush deeply
allaround - everywhere around; affecting equally every one in a circle or company
vociferant - clamouring, bawling, vociferating; a clamorous or noisy person
vice versa - with a reversal or transposition of the main items in the statement just made
namely - to wit, that is to say, videlicet
slava - a festival of a family saint in Serbia, a name-day + Slavyanskii Slovar (Russian) - Slavonic dictionary + Abdul Abulbul Amir by William Percy French.
Kafoozalem (song): 'from old Methusalem' + old Jerusalem (Crimean War result of dispute over key to church of Bethlehem).
as to - as it regards, so far as it concerns
godfather + Spaeth: Read 'Em and Weep 135: Major Gilfeather (song).
pertain - to belong, be connected (in various ways)
hircus (l) - he-goat + Hegesippus → "as was Hegesippus over a hup a ' chee, her eys dry and small" [038.16]
educe - to evoke, give rise to (actions, manifestations, etc.)
beauty - a beautiful woman + The "Beauty of Bath" is an apple.
bath - the action of bathing
bind - to tie, restrain, confine, restrict by a non-material bond or force of any kind
beholder - a watcher, looker on, spectator + Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (proverb).
Pride's Purge - a name given in Eng. Hist. to the exclusion of those members of the Long Parliament who were suspected of Presbyterian and Royalist leanings, by Colonel Pride, on the 6th of December, 1648 + "Finewell's Keepsacre but later tautaubapptossed Pat's Purge)," [080.07]
appoint - to determine authoritatively, prescribe, fix (a time, later a place) for any act
penance - repentance, penitence
libel - Civil Law. The writing or document of the plaintiff containing his allegations and instituting a suit.
lame - fig. To cripple, maim, disable.
low - wanting in decent breeding; coarse, vulgar; not socially 'respectable'
lofty - exalted in dignity, rank, character, or quality
housed - lodged, enclosed, or shut up in or as in a house + Bi i do thost! (bi i du hust) (gael) - "Be in your silence": Be silent!
heresy + Percy.
harrow - to harry, rob, spoil; Used especially in the phrase 'to harrow hell', said of Christ. Christ spoiled or (as they were wont to speake) harrowed Hell. Jesus' Harrowing of Hell: descent between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
rout - to search out, bring to light; to compel to flee in disorder
rollicking - extremely jovial or gay, boisterously sportive + The Rollicking Rams (song).
rule - to control, guide, direct, exercise sway or influence over (a person, his actions, etc.)
racketeer - a member of a gang or association of criminals practising extortion, intimidation, violence, and other illegal acts on a large scale; any person making easy money by such means; Also transf., one who achieves an easy result by illegitimate means.
romp - one who romps; esp. a play-loving, lively, merry girl (or woman)
rein - fig. To rule, guide, or govern; to put a check or restraint upon (something).
rockery - an artificial heap or pile of rough stones and soil used for the ornamental growing of ferns and other plants
ride - a turn or spell of riding; an excursion or journey in some vehicle or conveyance, now esp. a public one
ramble - Of persons: To wander, travel, make one's way about (now usually to walk) in a free unrestrained manner and without definite aim or direction + The Rocky Road to Dublin (song).
nightclothes - such clothes as are usually put on at night immediately before going to bed
a run (arun) (gael) - my precious + aroon (Irish) - my precious, beloved.
sway - to move or swing first to one side and then to the other, as a flexible or pivoted object + Thomas Moore, song: After the Battle: 'Night clos'd around the conqueror's way' [air: Thy Fair Bosom].
Saladin (Arabian "Honoring the faith") (1138-93) - Egyptian sultan who fought the crusaders + Saladin's Islam + Solomon Islands.
giaour - term of reproach applied by Turks to non-Mussulmans + Lord Byron: 'The Giaour' + modern Germany.
America + Amalekites defeated by Gideon + SDV:— That is true enough in Islaind as in moltern Giaourmany, for the Amulekins off to date back till to land of engined Engypt,
ancient Egyptians + Blavatsky: Isis Unveiled I.528: 'J. L. Stephens... asserts that he found railroads in Upper Egypt whose grooves were coated with iron'.
assent - to give or express one's agreement with a statement or matter of opinion + asserted.
inlooker - one who looks into a thing, an inspector
oxman - a man who looks after oxen, a herdsman + tongue - speech, talking, utterance; also, what is spoken or uttered + Oxmantown - part of North Dublin (named after 'Oxman', 'Ostman': Eastman, Viking).
stall - to place; to assign a particular place to (a person or thing); Of cattle: To be lodged in stalls + SDV: assented from his opening before his inlookers of where an oxmanstongue was stable,
stable - to put (a horse) into a stable, or into a place which is used as a stable + Joyce's note: 'throat - where a camel is stabled'.
wellnourished - well-fed
seven days - a week; often referred to as the period of the Creation
overlord - one who is the lord of other lords or rulers, a lord paramount, supreme lord; a person (occas. an animal) in a position of superiority, authority, or power
Saturdays and Sundays
satellites of the Sun (i.e. Solar System) + SDV: the sun sat of all the sats suns which are in the ring of his system of the sats of his sun,
scaffold - a temporary platform usually supported on poles or (sometimes) trestles, but occasionally suspended, and designed to hold the workmen and materials employed in the erection, repairing, or decoration of a building + SDV: god of the scuffled fallen, [skifflefelon,]
contain - to refrain from expressing or yielding to feeling, passion, etc.; to restrain oneself
hangster - a woman who performs the function of a hangman + gangsters + SDV: who [(he] contaimns [) ] hengsters, who [(he] constrains [) ] horsurs,
constrain - to compel or enforce (an action, etc.); to bring about by compulsion or of necessity; fig. To restrain within bounds, to limit.
Herrscher (ger) - ruler, master + Hengest and Horsa - brothers, led Saxon invasion of England + Sirr, Major - British officer who, with Major Swann, captured Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Among Sirr's brutalities was "half-hanging" the Irish.
gain - a quantity that is added
changeful - full of change, greatly given to change; changing, variable, inconstant + chain gang - a gang of convicts chained together.
mintage - the action or process (occas. the privilege) of coining or minting money; coinage
vast - to lay waste, destroy + waster - one who wastefully dissipates or consumes his resources, an extravagant spender + vintage master.
shift - a woman's 'smock' or chemise
topside - on the top; Also fig. Freq. with reference to the upper deck of a ship + topside (Pidgin) - superior.
stomach + stumm (ger) - dumb, silent.
atween - between + SDV: the topside riseyup with stomach between his shodows fella,
showdown - fig. An open disclosure of plans, means, etc.; also, a declaration or trial of one's strength or position; a final confrontation, a reckoning (intended to be conclusive) + shadows
fellah - fellow; a peasant in Arabic-speaking countries
mister + misto (it) - mixed.
Thomas Riley, grocer and wine merchant, 146 Dorset Street Upper, Dublin (also with premises at 1 Dominick Street Upper).
Kummer (ger) - worry, sorrow + kumme (Danish) - water closet + Fett (ger) - fat + Kummerfett (ger) - corpulence due to emotional problems (literally 'sorrow fat') + Atum-Khepri, you culminate as hill, you raise yourself up as Benu Bird from the ben-ben stone in the abode of the phoenix at Heliopolis. (Pyramid Texts, 1652.)
bladder - a membranous bag in the animal body; orig. The musculo-membranous bag which serves as the receptacle of the urinary fluid secreted by the kidneys + dagblade (Danish) - newspapers.
warmer - a person who warms (poet.) + SDV: who keepeth watch in Khumer-Phett, whose spouse is Anlivphs, the dog's bladder, warmer of his couch.
couch - an article of furniture for reclining or sitting on; a lounge: now commonly distinguished from a sofa by having a half-back and head-end only + coach-and-four - a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver.
fore - beforehand, in advance + FSTD: That is true, the landlord wellnourished one, lord of the seven days, overlord of sats and suns, who keeps watch in Khummer-Phett, whose spouse is Anlivphs, the dog's bladder, warmer of his couch, assented through his opening before its inlookers of where an oxmanstongue was stable.
leper - one affected with leprosy, a leprous person
nobbut - only, merely, just
wonderer - one who wonders at something; a wonder-worker + wanderer
wilderness + childer (Irish) - children.
allfather - the father of all, the universal father + Alfader (Danish) - Odin + SDV: We all have been wonterers in the childerness which is our true name after our faults.
bespeak - to speak about
lie detector - an instrument intended to indicate when a person is lying by detecting changes in his physiological characteristics
in vino veritas (l) - in wine [there is] truth + SDV: [Bespeaking of lie and love detectors, in veinaverities.]
whatever - 'no matter what'