hapenny - varr. halfpenny + halfpennies on corpse's eyes.
hanger on - a follower or dependant (familiarly and often disparagingly)
worthy - a thing of worth or value (rare.)
bis (l) - twice
Joshua - the name of the Old Testament leader of the Israelites
Godfrey - A euphemistic assimilation of God to the name Godfrey, used as an exclamation of strong feeling or surprise + the 'Nine Worthies' included biblical Joshua and Godfrey de Bouillon, being chronologically the first and last.
processus - a continuous and regular action or succession of actions + processus prophetarum (l) - the progression of the prophets, 'procession of prophets' (in mystery plays).
plaud - to applaud, to praise
perpetuation - the act of prolonging something
besure = be sure; you may be sure; ? surely, certainly + be sure to book.
(notebook 1930): '*E* my members' (siglum not crayoned) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Edinburgh', 941a: 'the city was divided for parliamentary purposes into East, West, Central and South Edinburgh, each returning one member'.
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye (song)
So it was in the autumn of 1989, feeling himself a man among boys, that Joyce came to University College at 86 St Stephen's Green, an elegant eighteenth-century town house of shabby distinction.
greet - obs. form of great
collegium (l) - colleagueship, partnership + collectio (l) - a collecting together
Padraic (padrik) (gael) - Patrick, name of the patron saint of Ireland + Padraic Colum - Irish poet and friend of Joyce, came to the United States in 1914.
carline (Middle English) - old woman
Bearla (berle) (gael) - English language + (notebook 1930): 'bareleen' → Berlin, capital of Germany.
Laighin (lein) (gael) - Lances; E. province; anglic. Leinster
spicery - collect. or in pl. Spices; a spice-shop or spice-store, or a set of these.
garbage (Joyce's note) + SDV: 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,
italic - pl. (rarely sing.) Italic letters
knobby - full of, abounding in, bearing, or covered with knobs or protuberances; excellent, smart, first quality
lauch = laugh + Lauch (ger) - onion + Knoblauch (ger) - garlic.
morsel - a bite; a small piece of food
marrowbone - a bone containing edible marrow + (notebook 1930): 'St Marylebone' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 938b: (listing the boroughs of London) 'St Marylebone (commonly Marylebone)'.
shain of garlic (notebook 1930) → Hardiman: The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway 58n: (quoting from a murage charter granted to the countess of Ulster by Edward IV) 'For eight shanes of garlic for sale, one farthing'.
Kraut (ger) - cabbage
pinkie - small, diminutive, tiny
dillisk - Irish and Sc. name of dulse (an edible species of seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata, having bright red, deeply divided fronds) + Piccadilly, London.
prime - the best, choicest, most attractive or desirable part of anything
subtlety - Cookery. A highly ornamental device, wholly or chiefly made of sugar, sometimes eaten, sometimes used as a table decoration (obs. exc. Hist.) + (notebook 1930): 'Jelly subtlety' → Peter: Dublin Fragments, Social and Historic 2: (of the Christmas dinners of King Richard II) 'the various "subtleties", prophets, patriarchs, ships, or flowers, portrayed in jelly or pasties'.
pancreas - a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach (secretes pancreatic juice and insulin) + saint Patrick's day - 17th of March + (notebook 1930): 'St Pancras' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 938b: (listing the boroughs of London) 'St Pancras'.
shortcake - a cake made short or crisp with butter or lard [(notebook 1930): 'shortcake' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 234: (part of a weekly menu of a working-class York family) 'Shortcake'].
nutrient - a nutritious substance [(notebook 1930): 'nutrients' → Rowntree: Poverty: A Study of Town Life 226: 'the nutrients contained in food fall under three heads... Protein... Fats... Carbohydrates'].
Paas - Easter + (notebook 1930): 'Paas Pinxter' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VII, ch. II: (of Peter Stuyvesant's reign) 'there was a great cracking of eggs at Paas or Easter; Whitsuntide or Pinxter also flourished in all its bloom'.
pingster = pinkster - Whitsuntide (Whit Sunday and the days immediately following).
bready - characterized by, or of the nature of, bread
Nuttal - Lord Mayor of Dublin
fleshmeat - flesh (as opposed to fish and vegetables) as an article of food; also pl. various kinds of food consisting of flesh + Ulysses.17.304: 'an empty pot of Plumtree's potted meat'.
stor (Norwegian) - big + stor (Danish) - great.
Dampkjökken - public kitchen in Oslo, founded in 1858, where meals were provided for the poor + Dampfkuche (ger) - steam-kitchen.
Jaffa - the modern name of Joppa, a port in Israel
Jalapa - a city of Mexico + jalap - a purgative drug obtained from the tuberous roots of Exogonium Purga and some other convolvulaceous plants.
shallot - a small onion, Allium Ascalonicum, native in Syria and cultivated for use as a flavouring ingredient for salads, sauces, etc.
ASCALON - Seaport village on coast of Palestine, now ruins near El Majdaly. In Biblical times a city of the Philistine confederation (Joshua 13:2).
feed me with food convenient for me (notebook 1930) → In Darkest England 36: We all know the prayer, "Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me".
saffron - an orange-red product consisting of the dried stigmas of Crocus sativus. Now used chiefly for colouring confectionery, liquors, etc., and for flavouring; formerly extensively used in medicine as a cordial and sudorific + SDV: [to my saffron saffronbreathing mongoloid I gave] a ewer handewers & loinscrapers
Mongoloid - one of the Mongoloid race (characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia) + (notebook 1924): 'mongoloid' → Metchnikoff: La Civilisation et les Grands Fleuves Historiques 86: (of Dr Letourneau's classification of humanity) The black race... The yellow race, Mongol or Mongoloid... The white race'.
skinsyg (Danish) - jealous + syg (Danish) - sick + (notebook 1930): 'Skin Sick' → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1817: 'Infirmary for Diseases of the Skin opened'.
Björvik - the main part of Oslo Harbour, separated by the Akenshus promontory from the smaller Pipervik harbour + Borwick's baking powder is sold in British grocery stores.
powlder - obs. f. powder + pulver (l) = Pulver (German) - dust, powder.
olive's + ollamh (ulev) (gael) - sage, poet + uliva (it) - olive + ulivs- (Norwegian) - mortal-, fatal-, death-.
Cuticura soap and skin ointments
unguent - an ointment or salve
swarthy - dark in colour; spec. Of the skin or complexion + Joyce's note: 'the face of her - grace - - - damp - it (her)' (first and fourth dashes ditto 'the', second and fifth dashes ditto 'of', third dash dittoes 'her'; only first four words crayoned)
ewer = ewerer - a servant who supplied guests, etc. at table with water to wash their hands.
scrubber - one who scrubs + scrubber (Slang) - female pubic hair.
currycomb - a square comb with rows of small teeth, used to curry horses
teaze = tease + SDV: [and a currycomb for her frizzy]
tussy - a cluster, posy, or knot of flowers or leaves; an ornament of silver or gold of this form, forming a buckle or the like (obs. rare.) + (notebook 1924): 'tuzzy of hair' → tuzzy - a ball of horsehair, used by copper-plate printers to remove ink from their hands + pussy (Slang) - vulva.
combly - var. of comely + Song of Solomon 1:5: 'I am black but comely'.
Mopsos (gr) - legendary diviner; prophet + (notebook 1930): 'mops brooms' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book III, ch. III: 'a passion for cleanliness... The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and scrubbing brushes'.
sate (Irish Pronunciation) - seat
clubmoss - primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles (PICTURE)
wolf's foot - a plant of the cryptogamous genus Lycopodium: a club-moss (PICTURE)
moister - obs. form of moisture (n. and v.) + master work - a masterpiece + SDV: clubmoss and with wolvesfoot for her moister places
efficiency - fitness or power to accomplish, or success in accomplishing, the purpose intended
shopsoiled - depreciated in value and appearance by being exposed for sale in a shop; also fig.
doveling - a young dove; also, a term of affection for a little child + soiled dove (Slang) - whore.
civicize - to infuse with civic consciousness, to make civic or urban + ceased
saloon - a large apartment or hall, esp. in a hotel or other place of public resort, adapted for assemblies, entertainments, exhibitions, etc.; also, rarely, any unusually large apartment.
esquire - a man belonging to the higher order of English gentry, ranking immediately below a knight + Escurial Palace - chief palace of Spanish kings, near Madrid.
fineglas (notebook 1930) → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. VIII, 'Dublin', 620d: 'Northward lies... Finglas, with a ruined church of early foundation, and an Irish cross'.
bow window - a curved bay window
drape - to arrange or adjust (clothing, hangings, etc.) in graceful or artistic folds; to hang, dress, or adorn with drapery
embrasure - a slanting or bevelling in the sides of an opening to a wall for a window or door, so that the inside profile of the window is larger than that of the outside (PICTURE).
giltedged - having gilded edges, as the pages of a book; of the highest quality or value
librarium (l) - book-case + (notebook 1930): 'library' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XX, 'Paris', 816c: (of Charles V) 'A library which he founded... became the nucleus of the national library'.
telltale - that reveals or betrays something meant to be kept secret + Tailte - Firbolg queen whose foster-son, Lug, founded the Tailtean games in her honor. Revived by the Free State, the games are held in Teltown.
withers - the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals + wring someone's withers - to cause someone to feel great pity or sympathy + William Shakespeare: Hamlet III.2.234: 'our withers are unwrung'.
limberly - capable of moving, bending, or contorting easily; supple
wheatear - a pattern in embroidery, lace, weaving, etc., or an ornament in wood-carving, etc., resembling an ear of wheat
slapbang - a slap-bang shop (an eating-house or cook-shop)
Dean Swift: The Drapier's Letters
bray - the cry peculiar to some animals, esp. the ass; humorously of the human voice + Joyce's note: 'old games / ... / Ranter-go-Round / Spinado / Bray'.
nap - a short or light sleep, esp. one taken during the day; a card game, in which each player receives five cards, and calls the number of tricks he expects to win.
ranter go round - a card game
my Lewd (notebook 1930) → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 235: 'One Thomas Newman, of the Corporation of Barber-surgeons... was, for an unrecited offence, in 1577 forcibly and against his will carried to New Gate, where he lay, with two pairs of bolts on his legs, until he 'reconciled himself,' by acknowledging on his knees his folly and 'lewdness,' craving pardon'.
mayer - one who 'goes a-maying'; see mayor + (notebook 1930): 'we had meludd myers and milaurdie meiresses beam down on us out of their lateneses oilclothed over limp allpointed heir by Hind' ('allpointed' and 'heir' not clear).
lairdie - a petty laird (a landed proprietor)
mayoress - the wife of a mayor; the wife of a Lord Mayor is called Lady Mayoress.
kowtow - to perform the kow-tow (the Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead in the act of prostrating oneself, as an expression of extreme respect, submission, or worship) + (notebook 1930): 'kioto' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXVI, 'Tōkyō', 1048d: 'the transfer of the court from Kiōto' (capital of Japan until 1868).
fullface = full-faced - having the face turned fully on the spectator or in some specified direction + (notebook 1930): 'full face' → Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 35: 'The first Anglo-Norman coinage of Ireland bore the full face of John'.
framed + famous likenesses.
lateness - the quality or condition of being late; the being behind usual or proper time
oilcloth - laid or covered with oilcloth (a general name for any fabric of cotton, linen, hemp, etc. prepared with oil, so as to be rendered waterproof).
cohabitation - living together as husband and wife (often with the implication of not being married)
hind - a servant; esp., in later use, a farm servant, an agricultural labourer; a lad, boy, stripling + (notebook 1930): 'all painted behind' → Mayoress of Belfast showing visitors a line of portraits and announcing, as she indicates her husband's: 'Oil painted by hand' (story told to Joyce by Herbert Hughes, editor of The Joyce Book).
Tamerlane - European corruptions of 'Timur lenk' = lame Timur, appellation of Timur, the great Tartar conqueror 1335-1405 + Tam Linn (song).
Cossack - name of a warlike Turkish people now subject to Russia, occupying the parts north of the Black Sea + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1409: 'Thomas Cusack chosen first mayor of Dublin' (not Lord-Mayor) + Michael Cusack - original of 'the Citizen' in Cyclops (Ulysses).
dirk - a kind of dagger + Whittington, Dick (d. 1423) - thrice Lord Mayor of London. He has been confused with the folk-figure Dick Whittington, who was recalled to London by the prophetic peal of Bow bells: "Turn again, Whittington." The story of Dick's cat, who rid a ship of rats, is told in many languages. Also a pantomime + Arthur, first duke of Wellington, 1769-1852.
Stuyvesant (notebook 1930) → Peter Stuyvesant - Dutch governor of New Amsterdam (New York City), evicted from the city by the British in 1664 (name means 'drift-sand'; his reign is described in detail in Washington Irving's A History of New York, books V-VII)
Oliver + Hugh O'Neill outlawed in 1613 + Larry O'Neill - Lord-Mayor of Dublin, insisted on retaining title while Dublin Corporation suspended 1924-30.
currant - a small seedless raisin of the Mediterranean region, used chiefly in baking
Raisin-Figs + Reyson - Lord Mayor of Dublin.
datteri (it) - dates (the oblong edible fruit of a palm)
prune (fr) - plum + quetsche (fr) - damson (small plum).
hym - obs. form of him + (notebook 1930): 'In Him we trust' → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 435: (of the Atheist movement) 'a bunch of puerile "damned souls" who want to take "In God We Trust" off the coins of our Great Republic'.
footwash - the washing of another's feet, esp. as a religious observance; also, locally as a wedding-ceremony [(notebook 1930): 'footwash' → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 451: (of Duck River Baptists) 'They are liberal Calvinists and believe in immersion and foot-washing'].
sect - adherence to a particular religious teacher or faith + (notebook 1930): 'Six principles' → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 451: (of General Six Principle Baptists) 'They are Arminian rather than Calvinistic. The six principles are: repentance, faith, baptism, the laying on of hands, resurrection, and eternal judgment'.
apply - to address oneself for information or aid, to make application to
overseer - religious leader + (notebook 1930): 'Daniel VIII 13-14' → Ferguson: The Confusion of Tongues 449: (of Seventh Day Adventists) 'This church originated in 1845-1846 upon the interpretation of Daniel VIII, 13-14: "Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"'.
double time + Dublin time.
exhibiting the graces (notebook 1930) → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VII, ch. II: 'A young belle, just returned from a visit to Holland... at the highest flourish of her feet, some vagabond zephyr obtruded his services, and a display of the graces took place... the good Peter Stuyvesant himself was grievously scandalized... He... forbade, under pain of his high displeasure, any young lady thenceforth to attempt what was termed "exhibiting the graces"'.
Alhambra - the palace of the Moorish kings at Granada + (notebook 1930): 'dancing algebra' → Washington Irving: A History of New York, book VII, ch. II: 'A young belle, just returned from a visit to Holland... undertook, in the course of a jig, to describe some figures in algebra taught her by a dancing-master at Rotterdam'.
Dunsink Observatory, Dublin + dancing the Blue Danube.
Blue Danube
Vauxhall - Used ellipt. for Vauxhall Gardens, a popular pleasure resort from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century + (notebook 1930): 'Vauxhall' → The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVI, 'London', 948b: (of the Tate gallery) 'by the Thames near Vauxhall Bridge' + waltz halls.
dizz - to make dizzy or giddy
dazed - benumbed in the mental faculties; stupefied, bewildered
Humpty Dumpty