legion - a host of armed men; a vast host or multitude (of persons or things) + *O*.
Clann Duibhlinn (kloun divlin) (geal) - Progenry/Race of a Black Pool (Dublin).
clam - base, mean, low
cartel - a consortium of companies formed to limit competition + FSTD: The all of them, [[the [pig's pig village] boys] in that smoker, [a sixdigitarian legion, the Clandibbbon cartel]]
come off - to leave the field of combat; to retire or extricate oneself from any engagement
rally - the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort + really.
roasted - Of meat: Cooked by dry heat in an oven.
malt - barley or other grain prepared for brewing or distilling by steeping, germinating and kiln-drying
toast - to brown (bread, cheese, etc.) by exposure to the heat of a fire, etc. + FSTD: the [roasted] malts with the borleyd wheaskeys mullable malmseys
burley - an American tobacco, of which there are two varieties, red and white + roasted barley malt used in making Guinness.
condemnation + -ation (*O*; 4 times)
temptation + FSTD: [foursquared] in condomnation [of his totomptation] and for the duration [till his repepulation] rally agreed,
for the duration - until the end of the war; hence, for a long or an unconscionably long time
nonconformist - not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought
ironsides - Applied to Cromwell's troopers in the Civil War + 'Old Nol' and 'Ironsides' - nicknames of Cromwell.
cannibal + Cain/Abel.
someone + Salmon trout.
trow - to believe, think, be of opinion, suppose + tried
contract out - to make an arrangement or agreement not to participate under certain conditions; hence, to refuse to take part in or be a part of
coolly - fig. Without the heat of passion or emotion; calmly, collectedly.
tarpon - the Jew-fish, Megalops atlanticus, a giant representative of the herring tribe found in the warmer waters of the western Atlantic + turbot - a large brownish European flatfish.
grampus - slaty-gray blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas + porpoise - a small cetaceous mammal (Phocæna communis) about five feet in length, of a blackish colour above and paler beneath, having a blunt rounded snout not produced into a 'beak' as the dolphin's.
fathom - 2.1 m.
bridegroom - a man about to be married, or very recently married
inch - 2.54 cm + song 'Here Comes the Bride, boys, forty inches wide' [air: Wedding March].
captain + FSTD: [foursquared] in condomnation [of his totomptation] and for the duration [till his repepulation] rally agreed, the [roasted] malts with the borleyd wheaskeys mullable malmseys upon old nollcromforemost ironsides since he might as well have rolled to call out of the Cuptin Klanklord kettle auction
soldier + son
British + bitch
whereas + FSTD: like the sold of a britsh he was bound to be and become till the sea got him whileask for maker to missed
hun - a reckless or wilful destroyer of the beauties of nature or art: an uncultured devastator + son of a whore.
tent - attent, watchful; intent + FSTD: and what he gave away as a pattern he's he [, the hun of a horde,] is a finn as she's she [, his tent wife, is] a lap [, at home on a horse abroad by the fire,]
wot - to know
kenspeckle - easily recognizable, conspicuous + henpecked
sucker - a person easily cheated or deceived, a greenhorn, simpleton + soucar - Indian banker or moneylender.
generose (it) - generous (feminine plural)
cocke - scarlet
upright - to raise to an upright or vertical position, to erect. Also fig.
impressive + abrasive + umbra - shadow.
corpus (l) - body, substance + habeas corpus.
exemption - the state of being taken out or away; immunity from an obligation or duty
howsoever - in whatever manner
Finders keepers (proverb) + FSTD: and whoever spit her in howsoever's profocation it was anybody's beastness as usual and she was nobody's fondling only her keepers,
mould, bould, sould, hould (Irish Pronunciation) - mold, bold, sold, hold
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (song)
Peg O'My Heart - title, heroine of J. H. Manner's play, 1912. Peg O'Connell is a winsome Irish-American colleen who bewitches an English lord + FSTD: the peg in his pantry for to hold the heavyache off his heart.
droll - unintentionally amusing; queer, odd, strange
deemster - a judge (obs:); the title of each of the two justices of the Isle of Man, one of whom has jurisdiction over the southern, the other over the northern division of the island.
win - joy, pleasure, delight, bliss + worldes winne - worldly delight or pleasure.
bond - to subject to bondage
Thomas Moore, song: Erin, Oh Erin: 'Like the bright lamp' [air: Thamma Halla]
Erin + year in (and) year out - as each year begins and until it ends; continually throughout the year (and through successive years).
auspice - any divine or prophetic token; prognostic, premonition; esp. indication of a happy future; prosperous lead
suspectable - that may or should be suspected, open to suspicion
expectancy - the state or condition of being expected, or looked forward to; esp. in Law
respectableness - worthiness, creditableness + FSTD: Auspiciably suspectable but in expectancy of respectableness.
flock - a material consisting of the coarse tufts and refuse of wool or cotton, or of cloth torn to pieces by machinery, used for quilting garments, and stuffing beds, cushions, mattresses, etc.
bedding - a collective name for the articles which compose a bed, esp. the mattress, feather-bed, or other article lain upon, and the bed-clothes + Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 156: 'Dirty flock bedding in living-room placed on a box and two chairs'.
drip - a falling drop (obs.); the act or fact of dripping or falling in drops + Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 155: 'Rain coming through ceiling'.
sister of charity - a member of the sisterhood founded for nursing the sick; a member of a religious organization devoted to works of charity, of which several have at various times been founded + *IJ*.
evacuant - Med. That evacuates or tends to evacuate, promoting evacuation, cathartic, purgative + vacuum cleaners.
cleanse - one who or that which cleanses; spec. A purgative + *VYC* + FSTD: [From dirty flock bedding, dril drip dropping through ceiling, [with 2 sisters of charity on the front door and 3 cesspoolcleaners at the back gaze,]
back gate - a gate at the back of, or leading to the rear part of, a house or other premises
suspectable - that may or should be suspected, open to suspicion
equitable - fair, just, reasonable; pertaining to the department of jurisprudence called equity + Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 358: 'Sheffield Equitable Druids' (friendly society).
dire - In weakened (now trivial) use, apparent first in 'dire necessity': terrible, dreadful; awful, 'frightful'.
want - deficiency, shortage; the state of lacking the necessaries of life, destitution
plenty - abundance of the necessaries and comforts of life; a condition of general abundance + Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 136: 'The life of a labourer is marked by five alternating periods of want and comparative plenty'.
ravishment - forcible abduction or violation of a woman; rapture, ecstasy
dissolution - termination of life, death, decease
providential - of, pertaining to, or ordained by divine providence + 4-stage Viconian cycle: thunder, marriage, death, providence.
sofa - a long, stuffed seat with a back and ends or end, used for reclining; a form of lounge or couch
horsehair - a hair from the mane or tail of a horse + Haar (ger) = haar (Dutch) - hair + Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 149: 'A sofa, albeit of horsehair or American cloth'.
piano + FSTD: one box and two chairs (susceptible), occasionally used by husband when having writing to do in connection with equitable druids and friendly or other societies through periods of dire want with comparative plenty [ (thunderburst, ravishment, dissolution and providentiality)] to a sofa albeit of horsehair or american cloth, three bedrooms upstairs [of which] one with fireplace (aspectable), hired piano still paying off with green house in prospect (particularly perspectable). [He has dovesandraves in his belly and she wears a bowler in bath]].
play off - to complete playing + to pay off - to pay in full, and thus discharge the obligation; to clear off (a debt or claim) by payment.
Czerny, Karl (1791-1857) - Austrian pianist, composer of scales and exercises + churn - stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter + Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 148: (of a sitting-room) 'Occasionally it is used by the husband when he has writing to do in connection with friendly or other societies, or by the children when practising music'.
oldster - an elderly person
fireplace - a place for a fire, esp. the partially enclosed space at the base of the chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth
aspectable - capable of being seen, visible; fit to be beheld, fair to look upon
greenhouse - a glass-house in which delicate and tender plants are reared and preserved + greenhouse (Dublin Slang) - latrine, public toilet (from the paint colour).
in prospect - within the range of expectation; expected, or to be expected + View from Issy's room also takes in the backyard privy and an elm, which brushes against her windowpane (John Gordon: Finnegans Wake: a plot summary).
perspectibilis (l) - clearly visible, bright
keep at ---- - to work persistently at; to continue to occupy oneself with + (notebook 1924): 'kept (lived)' → FitzGerald: Miscellanies 60: 'Euphranor': 'So, without more ado, we turn'd into Trinity Great gate, and round by the right up a staircase to the attic where Lexilogus kept'.
Sulby - village in the parish of Lezayre in the Isle of Man + Dalby - small hamlet on the Isle of Man, located near the western coast.
should (for this time only) not (Joyce's note) → FitzGerald: Miscellanies 63: 'Euphranor': 'At last, after a little hesitation as to whether he should wear cap and gown, (which I decided he should, for this time only, not,) Lexilogus was ready'.