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| 127.01 | of rotables, toll of the road; bred manyheaded stepsons for one |
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| –127.01+ | Italian rotabile: (of vehicles) wheeled |
| –127.01+ | phrase the toll of the road: its cost in damage, injury and lives |
| 127.02 | leapyourown taughter; is too funny for a fish and has too much |
| –127.02+ | leap year daughter (*I*) |
| –127.02+ | taught her |
| –127.02+ | finny: having fins (like a fish) |
| 127.03 | outside for an insect; like a heptagon crystal emprisoms trues and |
| –127.03+ | HCE (Motif: HCE) |
| –127.03+ | heptagonal prism: a prism formed by two heptagons (seven-sided polygons) and seven squares |
| –127.03+ | Obsolete emprison: to imprison |
| –127.03+ | Motif: true/false |
| 127.04 | fauss for us; is infinite swell in unfitting induments; once was he |
| –127.04+ | French fausse: false (feminine) |
| –127.04+ | phosphorus |
| –127.04+ | Colloquial swell: a stylishly-dressed upper-class person |
| –127.04+ | (a hunchback in a suit; the Norwegian captain) |
| –127.04+ | Obsolete indument: endowment; clothing |
| –127.04+ | threefold death, whereby a hero or god dies in three different ways, often as punishment for a sin, is a common motif in several mythologies (including Celtic mythology) [.04-.05] |
| 127.05 | shovelled and once was he arsoned and once was he inundered |
| –127.05+ | Motif: 4 elements (earth, fire, water, air) |
| –127.05+ | inundated |
| –127.05+ | under |
| 127.06 | and she hung him out billbailey; has a quadrant in his tile to tell |
| –127.06+ | phrase hung him out to dry |
| –127.06+ | song Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? |
| –127.06+ | Motif: time/space (quadrant, clock) |
| –127.06+ | Slang tile: hat |
| –127.06+ | tail |
| 127.07 | Toler cad a'clog it is; offers chances to Long on but stands up |
| –127.07+ | Judge Toler tried Robert Emmet |
| –127.07+ | toller: one who tolls a bell (to mark the time) |
| –127.07+ | cad (the cad with the pipe) |
| –127.07+ | Irish cad a chlog: what o'clock (Colloquial phrase what o'clock it is: what time it is; Motif: What is the time?) |
| –127.07+ | offer chances: (of a batsman) play the ball in a way that allows a fielder to catch it, thereby dismissing the batsman (Cluster: Cricket) |
| –127.07+ | long on: a fielding position (Cluster: Cricket) |
| –127.07+ | French Slang longon: penis |
| –127.07+ | stand up: (of a wicketkeeper) take up his position immediately behind the wicket (Cluster: Cricket) |
| –127.07+ | Slang stand up: to have sex with (a woman; originally while standing up) |
| 127.08 | to Legge before; found coal at the end of his harrow and moss- |
| –127.08+ | Saint Augustine: Confessions VIII.12: 'tolle lege': 'take it and read' (referring to a childlike voice that urged Augustine to read Romans, a spiritual experience that led to his conversion) |
| –127.08+ | leg before wicket: a type of fault for which a batsman is dismissed, for having prevented the ball from striking the wicket with his leg or other body part (Cluster: Cricket; Slang phrase lift one's leg: to have sex; Slang wicket: female genitalia) |
| –127.08+ | Italian legge: law |
| –127.08+ | Norwegian legge: to lay, put, place |
| –127.08+ | CEH (Motif: HCE) |
| 127.09 | roses behind the seams; made a fort out of his postern and wrote |
| –127.09+ | scenes |
| –127.09+ | fort, fert (Motif: FERT) [369.12] [596.15] |
| –127.09+ | fart out of his posterior |
| –127.09+ | postern: back door |
| 127.10 | F.E.R.T. on his buckler; is escapemaster-in-chief from all sorts |
| –127.10+ | FERT: the motto of the Kingdom of Italy and the House of Savoy (Motif: FERT) |
| –127.10+ | Latin femina erit ruina tua: woman will be thy undoing |
| –127.10+ | Buckley (Motif: How Buckley shot the Russian General) |
| –127.10+ | escape |
| –127.10+ | ECH (Motif: HCE) |
| 127.11 | of houdingplaces; if he outharrods against barkers, to the shool- |
| –127.11+ | Houdini: master of escaping |
| –127.11+ | hiding |
| –127.11+ | William Shakespeare: Hamlet III.2.13: 'out-herods Herod' |
| –127.11+ | Harrods, Barker, Shoolbred's, Whiteley's: London department stores |
| 127.12 | bred he acts whiteley; was evacuated at the mere appearance of |
| –127.12+ | rightly |
| –127.12+ | (shat himself in fright) |
| –127.12+ | (fled) |
| –127.12+ | Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xlv: 'It was agreed that Mohammad and his people should perform the Lesser Pilgrimage, and that the Koreysh should for that purpose vacate Mekka for three days' |
| 127.13 | three germhuns and twice besieged by a sweep; from zoomor- |
| –127.13+ | Motif: 2&3 (three, twice) |
| –127.13+ | Obsolete german: brother |
| –127.13+ | Colloquial Hun: German (pejorative, especially during World War I) |
| –127.13+ | German besiegt: conquered, vanquished |
| –127.13+ | Obsolete sweep: a ballista, a type of siege engine |
| –127.13+ | Slang sweep: an unpleasant or disreputable person (from sweep: chimney-sweeper) |
| –127.13+ | Swede |
| –127.13+ | old Irish zoomorphic brooches with animal heads |
| 127.14 | phology to omnianimalism he is brooched by the spin of a coin; |
| –127.14+ | omni-: all- (a false etymology of the word 'panther' is that it derives from Greek pan-: all- + Greek ther: beast, animal; Motif: panther) |
| –127.14+ | omniana: bits of everything |
| –127.14+ | animalism: animal activity, sensuality; doctrine viewing man as mere animal |
| –127.14+ | VI.B.45.135f (o): 'trilobed brooch' (only last word crayoned) |
| –127.14+ | Mawer: The Vikings 105: 'The most characteristic of Viking ornaments is undoubtedly the brooch. It was usually oval in shape... Other types of brooch are also found — straight-armed, trilobed and round' |
| –127.14+ | (Irish coins have pictures of animals) |
| 127.15 | towers, an eddistoon amid the lampless, casting swannbeams on |
| –127.15+ | Eddystone lighthouse |
| –127.15+ | Edison invented the electric bulb |
| –127.15+ | sunbeams |
| –127.15+ | Swann invented a lamp |
| 127.16 | the deep; threatens thunder upon malefactors and sends whispers |
| –127.16+ | Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xlii: 'the speech called Thunder' (Koran: Sura XIII) |
| 127.17 | up fraufrau's froufrous; when Dook Hookbackcrook upsits his |
| –127.17+ | German Freifrau: baroness |
| –127.17+ | German Frau: woman, wife |
| –127.17+ | Motif: A/O |
| –127.17+ | French frou-frou: a rustling sound (especially of a silk dress) |
| –127.17+ | Meilhac and Halevy: Frou Frou (opera) |
| –127.17+ | duke |
| –127.17+ | phrase by hook or by crook |
| –127.17+ | hook-backed, crook-backed: hunchbacked |
| –127.17+ | Richard III (Crookback) killed in Battle of Bosworth [.18-.19] |
| 127.18 | ass booseworthies jeer and junket but they boos him oos and baas |
| –127.18+ | Dutch boos: angry, wicked, evil |
| –127.18+ | (booing audience) |
| –127.18+ | German bösartig: malicious, vicious |
| –127.18+ | boo him out |
| –127.18+ | Motif: A/O |
| –127.18+ | Dutch baas: boss, master |
| –127.18+ | Irish bás: death |
| –127.18+ | Latin basio: to kiss |
| 127.19 | his aas when he lukes like Hunkett Plunkett; by sosannsos and |
| –127.19+ | German Aas: carrion |
| –127.19+ | ass |
| –127.19+ | Slang arse: buttocks |
| –127.19+ | Luke Plunkett, a Dublin amateur actor, played the title role in William Shakespeare: King Richard III [.17] at Theatre Royal, riding into Bosworth Field on a donkey, and so amused audience with Richard's death that they jeeringly insisted on its repetition (related in Levey & O'Rorke: Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 18 and Fitzpatrick: Dublin, Historical and Topographical Account 264) |
| –127.19+ | looks like |
| –127.19+ | S.O.S. |
| –127.19+ | Motif: So and so |
| –127.19+ | Susanna: the virtuous heroine of an apocryphal bible story, who, while bathing, is spied upon by two lecherous elders, who then attempt to blackmail her into having sex with them |
| 127.20 | search a party on a lady of this city; business, reading news- |
| –127.20+ | search party |
| –127.20+ | such |
| –127.20+ | French phrase cherchez la femme: look for the woman (as the cause for any problem) |
| –127.20+ | Levey & O'Rorke: Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 16: 'A new Opera, written by a lady of this city... entitled "The Cavern; or, the Outlaws." It is surmised that Lady Morgan was the authoress' |
| –127.20+ | VI.B.44.179d (b): 'his business — eat, letters, smokes, fights' [.20-.23] |
| –127.20+ | Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical Terms 9: 'Business. — All movements and actions used by actors in playing a scene; such as opening and reading letters, eating or preparing meals, fights, smoking, etc.' [.20-.23] [559.24] |
| –127.20+ | phrase mixing business with pleasure: doing something that combines one's social and professional lives [.22] |
| 127.21 | paper, smoking cigar, arranging tumblers on table, eating meals, |
| –127.21+ | |
| 127.22 | pleasure, etcetera, etcetera, pleasure, eating meals, arranging tum- |
| –127.22+ | (repeated in reverse order) |
| 127.23 | blers on table, smoking cigar, reading newspaper, business; |
| –127.23+ | |
| 127.24 | minerals, wash and brush up, local views, juju toffee, comic and |
| –127.24+ | mineral waters |
| –127.24+ | Wash and Brush Up: a service advertised in men's public lavatories in Britain |
| –127.24+ | juju: magical object in West Africa |
| –127.24+ | jujube: a kind of edible berry-like fruit; a type of candy |
| 127.25 | birthdays cards; those were the days and he was their hero; pink |
| –127.25+ | |
| 127.26 | sunset shower, red clay cloud, sorrow of Sahara, oxhide on Iren; |
| –127.26+ | Hebrew words for red and earth (clay) come from the same root (adam) |
| –127.26+ | red sandstone |
| –127.26+ | Variants: {FnF, Png: ...sorrow of...} | {Vkg: ...sorrow or...} |
| –127.26+ | Sarah, the wife of Abraham (Genesis 11-25) |
| –127.26+ | oxide of iron (red) |
| –127.26+ | song The Exile of Erin |
| –127.26+ | Variants: {FnF, JCM: ...oxhide on...} | {Vkg, Png: ...oxhide or...} |
| 127.27 | arraigned and attainted, listed and lited, pleaded and proved; |
| –127.27+ | AALLPP (Motif: ALP) |
| –127.27+ | Archaic phrase arraigned and attainted: charged and convicted (often in the context of being condemned to death for treason) |
| –127.27+ | Italian lite: lawsuit, litigation, dispute, quarrel |
| 127.28 | catches his check at banck of Indgangd and endurses his doom at |
| –127.28+ | cashes his cheque |
| –127.28+ | back |
| –127.28+ | Bank of England |
| –127.28+ | Danish indgang: entrance |
| –127.28+ | endures |
| –127.28+ | Legalese endorse: to sign one's name on the back of (a cheque) |
| –127.28+ | Latin dorsum: back |
| –127.28+ | Archaic doom: judgement |
| 127.29 | chapel exit; brain of the franks, hand of the christian, tongue of |
| –127.29+ | HCE + ALP = CHAPEL |
| –127.29+ | Chapelizod |
| –127.29+ | Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xvii: 'Damiri has a saying, "Wisdom hath alighted on three things, the brain of the Franks, the hands of the Chinese, and the tongue of the Arabs"' |
| –127.29+ | (format of an Irish triad proverb, e.g. Joyce: Ulysses.1.732: (three things to beware) 'Horn of a bull, hoof of a horse, smile of a Saxon') [136.32-.33] [377.04-.05] |
| 127.30 | the north; commands to dinner and calls the bluff; has a block at |
| –127.30+ | Commendatore (Don Giovanni: the statue invited to supper) |
| –127.30+ | block: customer's mould at hatter's |
| –127.30+ | Slang block a hat: knock a man's hat down over his eyes |
| 127.31 | Morgen's and a hatache all the afternunch; plays gehamerat when |
| –127.31+ | German Morgen: morning |
| –127.31+ | J. Morgan: hat manufacturer, Dublin |
| –127.31+ | headache |
| –127.31+ | afternoon |
| –127.31+ | Dialect nuncheon: lunch |
| –127.31+ | German Geheimrat: privy councillor |
| –127.31+ | home rat [.32] |
| 127.32 | he's ernst but misses mausey when he's lustyg; walked as far as |
| –127.32+ | German ernst: earnest, serious |
| –127.32+ | nursery rhyme The Marriage of the Frog and the Mouse: (the frog) 'Quoth he, "Miss Mouse, I'm come to thee, To see if thou canst fancy me." Quoth she, "Answer I'll give you none, Until my uncle Rat come home." (known by many other titles, e.g. Frog Went a-Courting, or A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go, and with many different lyrics, including 'Mrs Mousey') |
| –127.32+ | German Mausi: darling, love (term of endearment for a female, being a diminutive of German Maus: mouse) |
| –127.32+ | German mausig: cheeky |
| –127.32+ | Mauser rifles used in the 1916 Easter Rising were known as Howth Mausers (having been smuggled into Ireland in 1914 through Howth Head) |
| –127.32+ | Anglo-Irish mausey: having heavy buttocks, having large hips (from Irish más: buttock) [284.F04] |
| –127.32+ | German lustig: merry |
| 127.33 | the Head where he sat in state as the Rump; shows Early Eng- |
| –127.33+ | sat on the rump |
| –127.33+ | Rump Parliament, 1648-53 |
| –127.33+ | Early English: a Gothic architectural style that flourished in 13th century England, used predominantly in cathedrals and churches |
| 127.34 | lish tracemarks and a marigold window with manigilt lights, a |
| –127.34+ | tracery: bars or ribs of stone dividing a window into segments, especially common in Gothic architecture |
| –127.34+ | trademarks |
| –127.34+ | marigold window: a circular window divided into segments by bars of tracery radiating from its centre, especially common in Gothic architecture (considered by some to be synonymous with rose window, by others to be a simpler form of it) |
| –127.34+ | many gilt lights |
| 127.35 | myrioscope, two remarkable piscines and three wellworthseeing |
| –127.35+ | myrioscope: a kind of kaleidoscope |
| –127.35+ | hagioscope: opening to make altar visible from aisle |
| –127.35+ | Motif: 2&3 |
| –127.35+ | French piscine: a piscina, a stone basin in a church reserved for the discharge of water used in rinsing the chalice and the priest's hands (also, a swimming-pool) |
| –127.35+ | Woolworth |
| 127.36 | ambries; arches all portcullised and his nave dates from dots; is |
| –127.36+ | Archaic ambry: a cupboard or closed recess in a church used for books, vessels, etc. |
| –127.36+ | portcullised: furnished with a portcullis |
| –127.36+ | phrase from the year dot: from long ago |
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