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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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