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086.01his exution with all the fluors of sparse in the royal Irish vocabulary
086.01+Latin exutio: exclusion
086.01+VI.B.5.102e (r): 'exutoire'
086.01+French exutoire: outlet, release
086.01+VI.B.45.127d (g): 'fluorspar'
086.01+Roscoe: Chemistry 50: 'Thus we find calc-spar, fluor-spar, heavy-spar, fel-spar, and quartz, all crystalline minerals which have, in different ways (and we cannot always tell exactly how), been produced in the earth by crystallization' [.01-.04]
086.01+fluorspar: native calcium fluoride [.04]
086.01+Latin fluor: flow
086.01+phrase flowers of speech: elaborate figures of speech
086.01+Obsolete Erse: Irish; Scottish Gaelic
086.01+VI.B.5.043f (r): 'had the vocabulary royal Irish —' (dash dittos 'vocabulary')
086.01+the Royal Irish Academy began publishing the Dictionary of the Irish Language in 1913 (not finished until 1976)
086.01+Royal Irish Constabulary
086.02how the whole padderjagmartin tripiezite suet and all the sulfeit
086.02+Motif: Peter, Jack, Martin (three brothers in Swift: A Tale of a Tub, representing the Catholic, Protestant and Anglican churches, respectively; *VYC*)
086.02+saltpetre, soot and sulphur (i.e traces of gunpowder)
086.02+The Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick: a 9th century biography of Saint Patrick
086.02+three-piece suit
086.02+piezo-electricity: electric polarity in a substance (especially crystals) resulting from the application of mechanical pressure [.04]
086.02+Roscoe: Chemistry 49: 'Now mix up half an ounce of powdered alum and half an ounce of powdered sulphate of copper... dissolve them in one ounce of hot water, and let the solution cool... You will see that the colourless crystals of alum are formed, and side by side with them blue crystals of sulphate of copper appear. The two different salts can thus be separated by crystallization' [.02-.04]
086.02+surfeit
086.03of copperas had fallen off him quatz unaccountably like the
086.03+Slang copper: policeman
086.03+copperas: iron sulphate (Archaic zinc sulphate; Obsolete copper sulphate)
086.03+quartz [.01]
086.03+quite
086.04chrystalisations of Alum on Even while he was trying for to stick
086.04+VI.B.45.127c (g): 'crystallisation' [.02]
086.04+Christ
086.04+VI.B.45.127b (g): 'alum' [.02]
086.04+Adam and Eve
086.04+Archaic for to: in order to
086.04+VI.B.3.109j (o): 'stick fire'
086.04+German Feuer anstecken: to light a fire (literally 'to stick fire')
086.05fire to himcell, (in feacht he was dripping as he found upon strip-
086.05+himself
086.05+cell
086.05+in fact
086.05+Irish feacht: turn, time
086.06ping for a pipkin ofmalt as he feared the coold raine) it was
086.06+Dialect pipkin: small earthenware pot; small wooden pail
086.06+of malt
086.06+cool, cold rain
086.06+Coleraine: town, County Derry (distilling was once its principal industry)
086.07attempted by the crown (P.C. Robort) to show that King, elois
086.07+Police Constable (Constable Sackerson)
086.07+Slang Robert: a policeman
086.07+robot
086.07+German Ort: place
086.07+(uncrowned king of Ireland: an epithet of Parnell)
086.07+Festy King, alias Crowbar (Legalese alias: otherwise called, also known as; from Latin alias: otherwise) [.13]
086.08Crowbar, once known as Meleky, impersonating a climbing boy,
086.08+a December 1890 caricature in the St. Stephen's Review shows Parnell 'in his latest role as the Crowbar King', referring to his and his followers' use of a crowbar to break into the offices of the United Irishman, the Irish Parliamentary Party's newspaper, following his loss of the party leadership and his control of its resources
086.08+Slang crowbar brigade: Irish constabulary
086.08+Hebrew melekh: king
086.08+Malachy II (Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill) preceded and succeeded Brian Boru as high king of Ireland
086.08+climbing-boy: boy chimney-sweep
086.08+(Parnell was falsely rumoured to have escaped from Captain O'Shea, his lover's husband, down a fire escape)
086.09rubbed some pixes of any luvial peatsmoor o'er his face, plucks
086.09+Motif: dark/fair (tar, peat, Moor, mud; white, fair) [.11]
086.09+pieces
086.09+Latin pix: tar
086.09+ALP (Motif: ALP)
086.09+diluvial: pertaining to a flood
086.09+alluvial: pertaining to muddy soil deposited by flowing water (e.g. rivers)
086.09+peat: soil rich in partly decayed organic matter, dug from bogs in the form of bricks and used in Ireland as fuel [.10]
086.09+moor
086.09+(muddy face)
086.09+(black as a Moor's face)
086.09+smear
086.09+Archaic o'er: over
086.09+Anglo-Irish pluck: cheek (from Irish pluc)
086.10and pussas, with a clanetourf as the best means of disguising
086.10+Anglo-Irish puss: mouth (from Irish pus)
086.10+Clane: village, County Kildare (Clongowes Wood College, where Joyce studied as a child from 1888 to 1892, is located nearby)
086.10+clean
086.10+Clontarf: parish three miles northeast of Dublin centre and site of Brian Boru's famous battle
086.10+turf: peat [.09]
086.11himself and was to the middlewhite fair in Mudford of a Thoors-
086.11+Variants: {FnF, Vkg: 'himself' on .11} | {Png: 'him-' on .10, 'self' on .11}
086.11+Middle White: a breed of pig (Cluster: Pigs)
086.11+pigs, having no sweat glands, wallow in mud to cool themselves (Cluster: Pigs)
086.11+VI.B.1.099e (o): 'Eng. villages / White Ladies Aston / Martyr Worthy / Swine / Foulmire / Mucking / Mudford / Barton in the Beans / Great Snoring / Eggbuckland / Toft Monks / Nether Wallop / Toller Porcorum / Huish Champflower' (only eleventh word crayoned)
086.11+Mudford: village, Somerset, England
086.11+mud, ford (*A*, *E*)
086.11+Anglo-Irish of: on (when referring to a day of the week or a time of the day)
086.11+Variants: {FnF, Vkg: 'Thoors-' on .11, 'day,' on .12} | {Png: 'Thoorsday' on .11}
086.11+Anglo-Irish thoor: tower
086.11+Thor: Norse god of thunder
086.11+Thursday
086.12day, feishts of Peeler and Pole, under the illassumed names of
086.12+German feist: fat
086.12+Irish feiste: entertainment
086.12+feasts of Peter and Paul (Motif: Paul/Peter)
086.12+Anglo-Irish peeler: policeman
086.12+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Pole...} | {Png: ...Polee...}
086.13Tykingfest and Rabworc picked by him and Anthony out of a
086.13+Festy King and Crowbar (Motif: anagram, nearly; Motif: backwards) [.07]
086.13+Saint Anthony: patron of swineherds (Cluster: Pigs)
086.13+Slang Anthony: smallest or favourite pig of a litter (Cluster: Pigs)
086.14tellafun book, ellegedly with a pedigree pig (unlicensed) and a
086.14+telephone
086.14+tell, book (storytelling)
086.14+French tel: such
086.14+a funny
086.14+allegedly
086.14+pedigree pig (Cluster: Pigs) [089.15]
086.14+Slang pig: policeman
086.15hyacinth. They were on that sea by the plain of Ir nine hundred
086.15+hyacinth: a type of flower; a type of precious stone [087.12]
086.15+Greek hys: pig (Cluster: Pigs)
086.15+according to legend, three brothers, Heber, Heremon, and Ir, sons of Milesius, led the Milesian invasion of Ireland and became the progenitors of the Irish race
086.15+Irish Éire: Ireland
086.16and ninetynine years and they never cried crack or ceased from
086.16+Anglo-Irish cry crack: give in
086.17regular paddlewicking till that they landed their two and a
086.17+Colloquial paddywhack: Irishman (especially if big and strong, derogatory); severe beating
086.17+Motif: 2&3 (two, triple)
086.18trifling selves, amadst camel and ass, greybeard and suckling,
086.18+trefoil
086.18+amidst
086.18+I Samuel 15:3: 'Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass'
086.18+(old and young)
086.18+Psalms 8:2: 'babes and sucklings'
086.19priest and pauper, matrmatron and merrymeg, into the meddle
086.19+Motif: alliteration (m)
086.19+matrimony, matron, marry (marriage; a matron was historically a married woman)
086.19+Latin Pater Patriae: Father of the Fatherland (an honorary title conferred on numerous Roman statesmen and emperors, and by extension on a few more modern figures as well, e.g. George Washington or Giuseppe Garibaldi; hence, Latin Artificial Mater Matriae: Mother of the Motherland)
086.19+Obsolete merryman: jester
086.19+middle
086.20of the mudstorm. The gathering, convened by the Irish Angri-
086.20+pigs wallow in mud (Cluster: Pigs)
086.20+maelstrom: a large and turbulent whirlpool
086.20+(court gathering)
086.20+VI.B.16.115j (b): 'convened'
086.20+Irish Rivers, The Tolka 391/1: (of the village of Mullahuddart) 'boasted of an ancient society, established so early as the reign of Henry VI., A.D. 1532, the "Guild or fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mullahuddart." This guild is stated by Mr. Mason (Hist. St. Patrick's Cathedral) to have been established by Act of Parliament, convened by Richard Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin, and then Lord Justice'
086.20+Irish Agricultural Organisation Society: a union of agricultural co-operatives founded by Sir Horace Plunkett in 1894
086.20+angry
086.21cultural and Prepostoral Ouraganisations, to help the Irish muck
086.21+prepostor: a senior pupil with delegated authority in certain English public schools (elsewhere known as a prefect or monitor)
086.21+preposterous
086.21+pastoral
086.21+French ouragan: hurricane
086.21+Irish muc: pig (Cluster: Pigs)
086.22to look his brother dane in the face and attended thanks to
086.22+VI.B.6.055k (r): 'looked me in face'
086.22+(competition between Danish and Irish bacon industries)
086.23Larry by large numbers, of christies and jew's totems, tospite of
086.23+Christians, Jews
086.23+the pig is a taboo animal of Jews (totem and taboo animals are often connected; Cluster: Pigs)
086.23+Greek to spiti: the house
086.23+in spite
086.24the deluge, was distinctly of a scattery kind when the bally-
086.24+scattery: scattered, sparse; scatter-brained
086.24+Scattery Island, County Clare
086.24+VI.B.16.126f (b): 'Ballybricken pigs (Waterford)' (Cluster: Pigs)
086.24+Freeman's Journal 3 May 1924, 10/6: 'By the Way': 'Not far from the picturesque and busy Quay at Waterford is the far-famed Ballybricken, the heart of the bacon industry, and the home of the best-known body of pig-buyers in Ireland' (Cluster: Pigs)
086.25bricken he could get no good of, after cockofthewalking through
086.25+phrase cock of the walk: the chief leader of a group (especially if domineering)
086.26a few fancyfought mains ate some of the doorweg, the pikey
086.26+Slang the fancy: prizefighting
086.26+Slang mains: cockfights
086.26+(damage to door) [067.19]
086.26+Dutch doorweg: way through
086.26+doorway
086.26+Norwegian pike: girl
086.26+Slang pikey: a tramp (Festy King)
086.27later selling the gentleman ratepayer because she, Francie's sister,
086.27+(selling the pig to pay the rent)
086.27+Anglo-Irish phrase the gentleman who pays the rent: pig (Cluster: Pigs) [089.15]
086.27+Saint Francis called all animals his brothers and sisters
086.28that is to say, ate a whole side of his (the animal's) sty, on a
086.28+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...say, ate...} | {Png: ...say ate...}
086.28+phrase side of bacon: a salted and cured longitudinal cut of a pig's abdominal wall (Cluster: Pigs)
086.28+sty (Cluster: Pigs)
086.29struggle Street, Qui Sta Troia, in order to pay off, hiss or lick,
086.29+VI.B.5.090f (r): 'stragglestreet'
086.29+Italian qui sta Troia: here is Troy
086.29+Italian questa troia!: what a whore!
086.29+Italian tròia: sow (Cluster: Pigs)
086.29+Hissarlik: Turkish city, supposed site of Troy
086.30six doubloons fifteen arrears of his, the villain's not the rumbler's
086.30+six pounds fifteen [082.12-.13]
086.30+double O's: 00, a sign indicating a public lavatory (especially in Europe) [.33-.35]
086.30+VI.B.14.189p (r): 'villain'
086.30+Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 13, no. 50, 296: Irish Land Tenures, Celtic and Foreign (W.F. Butler): (of thirteenth century English manors) 'tenants fall into two classes: one, a relatively small one, of free tenants holding by military service or by the payment of a fixed rental or by both; the other, and much the larger class, composed of holders described by various names and of varied rank; but who all for convenience sake may be called bond or villein or nativus; and who all have this characteristic in common that they owed to the lord uncertain or unlimited services, very largely in the nature of work to be done in ploughing, sowing and reaping the lands he held in demesne'
086.30+villein: serf, a partially-free tenant peasant under the complete control of a feudal lord (also spelled 'villain')
086.31rent.
086.31+
086.32     Remarkable evidence was given, anon, by an eye, ear, nose
086.32+{{Synopsis: I.4.1A.N: [086.32-090.33]: W.P.'s evidence — Hyacinth O'Donnell's evidence}}
086.32+Archaic anon: straight away, at once
086.32+anonymously
086.32+Motif: 5 senses (touch missing) [087.11] [088.06] [088.17] [090.28] [091.11]
086.32+Oliver St. John Gogarty was an ear, eye, nose and throat specialist
086.32+eyewitness
086.33and throat witness, whom Wesleyan chapelgoers suspected of
086.33+W.C.: Wesleyan Chapel; water-closet [.30] [.34-.35]
086.34being a plain clothes priest W.P., situate at Nullnull, Medical
086.34+W.P.: Witness for the Prosecution
086.34+W.P.: Warming Pan (a temporary office-holder (locum tenens, substitute), especially among the clergy)
086.34+Word Painter, Wet Pinter [087.13] [092.07]
086.34+MacDonald: Diary of the Parnell Commission 350: (in the index) 'P.W. means Parnell witness' (i.e. witness called by Parnell, as opposed to one called by The Times) [087.12]
086.34+German Colloquial Null-Null: public lavatory (literally 'zero-zero') [.30] [.33] [.35]
086.34+Merrion Square, Dublin
086.35Square, who, upon letting down his rice and peacegreen cover-
086.35+Slang square: lavatory, water-closet [.30] [.33-.34]
086.35+Motif: up/down
086.35+rice and peas
086.35+pea-green
086.35+(hat)
086.36disk and having been sullenly cautioned against yawning while
086.36+solemnly
086.36+yawning... grill (Gaping Gill)


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