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267.01 | drugged,1 lead us seek, lote us see, light us find, |
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–267.01+ | Motif: 4-stage Viconian cycle |
–267.01+ | let us (four times) |
–267.01+ | Matthew 7:7: 'seek, and ye shall find' |
–267.01+ | Archaic lote: lotus (a symbol of enlightenment and rebirth in Buddhism) |
267.02 | let us missnot Maidadate, Mimosa Multimim- |
–267.02+ | miss not |
–267.02+ | Maida Vale: affluent district of London |
–267.02+ | made a date |
–267.02+ | mimosa: a genus of shrubs, including sensitive plant |
–267.02+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg: ...Multimimetica...} | {Png: ...multimimetica...} | {JCM: ...Multimim etica...} |
–267.02+ | mimetic |
267.03 | etica, the maymeaminning of maimoomeining! |
–267.03+ | Ogden & Richards: The Meaning of Meaning (about semantics) |
–267.03+ | German Minne: love |
–267.03+ | Irish meann, minne: stuttering (Motif: stuttering) |
–267.03+ | Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song The Young May Moon |
–267.03+ | German Meinung: opinion |
267.04 | Elpis, thou fountain of the greeces, all shall speer |
–267.04+ | Greek elpis: hope |
–267.04+ | ALP (Motif: ALP) |
–267.04+ | graces |
–267.04+ | speer: make enquiries |
–267.04+ | Latin sperare: to hope |
–267.04+ | pee [.F02] |
–267.04+ | peer |
267.05 | theeward,2 from kongen in his canteenhus to |
–267.05+ | Dutch thee: tea |
–267.05+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...theeward,2 from...} | {Png: ...theeward2 from...} |
–267.05+ | Danish kongen: the king |
–267.05+ | nursery rhyme 'The king was in his counting-house' |
–267.05+ | Slang canteen: inn |
–267.05+ | Danish hus: house |
267.06 | knivers hind the knoll. Ausonius Audacior |
–267.06+ | knaves |
–267.06+ | (behind the hill) [007.33] |
–267.06+ | Decimus Magnus Ausonius: 4th century Roman poet |
–267.06+ | Latin Ausonius: Italian |
–267.06+ | Latin audacior: bolder |
267.07 | and gael, gillie, gall.3 Singalingalying. Storiella |
–267.07+ | (*VYC*) |
–267.07+ | Motif: Gall/Gael |
–267.07+ | Anglo-Irish gillie: young manservant, lad |
–267.07+ | Gaping Gill |
–267.07+ | German nursery rhyme children's game Ringel, Ringel, Reihe (similar to nursery rhyme children's game Ring-a-ring o' Roses; literally 'ring, ring, row') |
–267.07+ | lying |
–267.07+ | [486.06] |
–267.07+ | Italian storiella: story, fib |
267.08 | as she is syung. Whence followeup with end- |
–267.08+ | Millington: English as She is Spoke (edited and abridged version of Pedro Carolino's 'The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English', a Portuguese-English phrasebook by a man who knew almost no English) |
–267.08+ | Issy |
–267.08+ | sighing (rhymes with 'lying') |
–267.08+ | sung |
–267.08+ | young |
–267.08+ | song Follow Me Up to Carlow |
–267.08+ | VI.B.33.033c (r): 'mit entsprechenden Gebärde' (German with appropriate gestures) |
–267.08+ | German entsprechend: corresponding, appropriate (literally 'end-speaking') |
–267.08+ | unspeaking |
–267.08+ | unspoken |
267.09 | speaking nots for yestures, plutonically pur- |
–267.09+ | Motif: yes/no |
–267.09+ | (foot)notes |
–267.09+ | nods |
–267.09+ | Obsolete yesters: yesterdays |
–267.09+ | gestures |
–267.09+ | Pluto: Roman god of the underworld [.11] |
–267.09+ | platonically: (of loving) without a sexual component |
267.10 | suant on briefest glimpse from gladrags, pretty |
–267.10+ | Slang gladrags: fancy clothes |
267.11 | Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth peas. |
–267.11+ | VI.B.33.047d (r): 'proserpine' |
–267.11+ | Waite: The Occult Sciences 52: 'Princes and Grand Dignitaries... Proserpine, Arch-she-fiend, sovereign princess of the perverse spirits' |
–267.11+ | Proserpine: Roman queen of the underworld [.09] |
–267.11+ | Slang slit: female genitalia |
–267.11+ | VI.B.33.016g (r): 'pocket drops peas' |
–267.11+ | The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Supplemental Nights, vol. VII, 130n: The Tale of the Warlock and the Young Cook of Baghdad: 'In "Das blaue Licht," a Mecklenburg tale given by Grimm, the King's daughter who is borne through the air to the soldier's room is told by her father to fill her pocket with peas and make a hole therein; but the sole result was that the pigeons had a rare feast' (i.e. dropping peas to mark a trail) |
–267.11+ | spills piss |
–267.11+ | spells peace |
267.12 | Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette, |
–267.12+ | {{Synopsis: II.2.3.B: [267.12-270.28] [267.F04-270.F06] [267.L04-270.L07] [267.R01-268.R10]: the girl — thinking of grammar and grandma's advice on womanhood}} |
–267.12+ | Belisha beacon: a flashing orange-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black-and-white pole, used to mark pedestrian crossings in Britain and Ireland (since 1934) [.16] |
–267.12+ | (the setting sun) |
267.13 | unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it waves |
–267.13+ | enmesh |
–267.13+ | green ray: the brief appearance of a green spot or flash or ray above the upper rim of the setting sun at the moment of its disappearance over the horizon (a fairly uncommon meteorological phenomenon, also known as green flash) [.16] |
–267.13+ | song The Green Isle of Erin: (chorus) 'Oh green isle of Erin That waits for me yonder' |
–267.13+ | Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian II.165: Temora I: (begins) 'The blue waves of Erin roll in light' |
–267.13+ | Motif: 7 colours of rainbow [.13-.16] [.R04] |
–267.13+ | Archaic grene: green |
–267.13+ | orange (Motif: anagram) |
–267.13+ | evening |
267.14 | us to yonder as the red, blue and yellow flogs |
–267.14+ | wander |
–267.14+ | flags |
267.15 | time on the domisole,4 with a blewy blow and |
–267.15+ | domicile |
–267.15+ | do, mi, sol: syllables used in the sol-fa system of musical note representation (forming the C major chord: CEG) |
–267.15+ | bluey blue (violet, perhaps) |
–267.15+ | blow: a strong wind, a blast of wind |
267.16 | a windigo. Where flash becomes word and |
–267.16+ | windy |
–267.16+ | indigo |
–267.16+ | prayer Angelus: 'And the Word was made flesh' (based on John 1:14) |
–267.16+ | flash [.12] [.13] |
267.17 | silents selfloud. To brace congeners, trebly |
–267.17+ | silent, loud (opoosite) |
–267.17+ | silent: (of letters in a word) not pronounced |
–267.17+ | German Selbstlaut: vowel (literally 'self-loud') |
–267.17+ | flood |
–267.17+ | congener: a creature or person of the same kinship or nature as another (said of animals, plants, people, etc.) [.R04] |
–267.17+ | Motif: 2&3 (treble, twain) |
267.18 | bounden and asservaged twainly. Adamman,5 |
–267.18+ | Archaic bounden: in bondage, enslaved |
–267.18+ | French asservir: to enslave |
–267.18+ | Obsolete servage: bondage, slavery |
–267.18+ | Adam |
–267.18+ | Adamman: an artificial language based on English (from Adam (denoting primitive roots) and man (denoting the entire human race)) |
–267.18+ | Saint Adamnán: Irish biographer of Saint Columcille (Columba) |
–267.18+ | Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian II.35: Fingal II: 'Ferda, son of Damman' |
–267.18+ | Motif: 5 vowels: A, E, I, O, U + semivowels: Y, W [.18-.20] |
267.19 | Emhe, Issossianusheen and sometypes Yggely |
–267.19+ | Irish Émhe: Eve |
–267.19+ | Ossian: Finn's son (pronounced 'osheen' or 'usheen') |
–267.19+ | sometimes |
–267.19+ | Norwegian Ygg: Odin |
–267.19+ | Webster Edgerly invented Adamman (under the pseudonym Edmund Shaftesbury: The Adam-man Tongue, the Universal Language of the Human Race, 1903) |
267.20 | ogs Weib. Uwayoei!6 So mag this sybilette be |
–267.20+ | Irish agus: and |
–267.20+ | and wife |
–267.20+ | German Weib: woman, wife |
–267.20+ | Motif: 5 vowels: U, A, O, E, I + semivowels: W, Y [.18] |
–267.20+ | Joyce: Stephen Hero XVI: 'Stephen... permuted and combined the five vowels to construct cries for primitive emotions' |
–267.20+ | woe! (exclamation of grief) |
–267.20+ | German mag: Dutch mag: may |
–267.20+ | VI.B.33.069e (r): 'Was that your shiboleth then? she was my sibylette then' |
267.21 | our shibboleth that we may syllable her well! |
–267.21+ | shibboleth: distinctive catchword, formula or pronunciation indicative of a particular set of people (Judges 12:6) |
–267.21+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...well! Vetus...} | {Png: ...well. Vetus...} |
267.22 | Vetus may be occluded behind the mou in |
–267.22+ | Latin vetus: old, aged |
–267.22+ | Venus |
–267.22+ | French Slang mou: human body, human flesh |
–267.22+ | Moon |
267.23 | Veto but Nova will be nearing as their radient |
–267.23+ | Latin veto: I forbid |
–267.23+ | Virgo |
–267.23+ | Latin nova: new |
–267.23+ | nova: in astronomy, new star |
267.24 | among the Nereids. A one of charmers, ay, |
–267.24+ | nereids: sea nymphs |
–267.24+ | Nereus: old name of constellation Eridanus |
–267.24+ | VI.B.3.150a (r): 'charmeur' |
–267.24+ | Harris: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions I.93: (of Oscar Wilde) 'His whole face lit up as he spoke and one saw nothing but his soulful eyes, heard nothing but his musical tenor voice; he was indeed what the French call a charmeur' |
–267.24+ | French charmeur: enchanter |
267.25 | Una Unica, charmers, who, under the branches |
–267.25+ | Irish una: famine |
–267.25+ | Latin una unica: one only (feminine) |
267.26 | of the elms, in shoes as yet unshent by stoni- |
–267.26+ | Motif: tree/stone (elm, stone) |
–267.26+ | Archaic unshent: uninjured, unharmed |
267.27 | ness, wend, went, will wend a way of honey |
–267.27+ | Motif: alliteration (w) |
267.28 | myrrh and rambler roses mistmusk while still |
–267.28+ | VI.B.3.164c (r): === VI.B.3.128b (b): 'rambler roses' |
–267.28+ | rambler rose: Crimson Rose |
267.29 | the maybe mantles the meiblume or ever her |
–267.29+ | (the maybe... or... her if) |
–267.29+ | May bee |
–267.29+ | Dutch Mei: May |
–267.29+ | German Maiblume: mayflower |
–267.29+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...meiblume or...} | {Png: ...meiblume, or...} |
267.F01 | 1 For Rose Point see Inishmacsaint. |
–267.F01+ | Ross Point close to Inishmacsaint, an island in Lough Erne |
267.F02 | 2 Mannequins' Pose. |
–267.F02+ | Manneken Pis: a famous statue in Brussels of a child urinating |
267.F03 | 3 Their holy presumption and hers sinfly desprit. |
–267.F03+ | Maitland: Life and Legends of St. Martin of Tours 48: (to Satan) '"wouldst thou but cease to tempt men... I... would dare promise thee His mercy" "Oh, holy presumption!" cries an old writer... "In default of authority for what he dares to promise, he is fain to express what he desires"' |
–267.F03+ | sinfully |
–267.F03+ | simply desperate |
–267.F03+ | French d'esprit: of spirit |
267.F04 | 4 Anama anamaba anamabapa. |
–267.F04+ | Irish anama: souls |
–267.F04+ | Irish anama ba: souls of cows |
–267.F04+ | Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 154 (VIII.8): 'the baby lies and babbles his 'mamama' or 'amama' or 'papapa' or 'apapa' or 'bababa' or 'ababab'' |
267.F05 | 5 Only for he's fathering law I could skewer that old one and slosh her out |
–267.F05+ | father-in-law |
–267.F05+ | Adamnán's law provided heavy penalties for killing women |
267.F06 | many's the time but I thinks more of my pottles and ketts. |
–267.F06+ | song The Mermaid: 'I care more for my pottles and my kets' |
–267.F06+ | Archaic pottle: pot or drinking vessel measuring half a gallon |
–267.F06+ | kettles and pots (Motif: P/Q; proverb The pot calling the kettle black: criticising another for one's own faults (hypocrisy)) |
267.F07 | 6 All abunk for Tarararat! Look slipper, soppyhat, we've a doss in the |
–267.F07+ | phrase All aboard for Ararat! (a phrase applied jokingly, since at least the end of the 19th century, to the loading of Noah's Ark, as if it were a regular ship destined for Ararat, the mountains on which it will eventually land after the Flood; Genesis 8:4) |
–267.F07+ | phrase all aboard (a ship or train) |
–267.F07+ | bunk: shelf-like sleeping-berth serving as a bed (on a ship or train) |
–267.F07+ | Tara: ancient capital of Ireland |
–267.F07+ | Colloquial look slippery: be quick (Joyce: Ulysses.14.1477: 'Look slippery') |
–267.F07+ | sleeper: sleeping-car on a train |
–267.F07+ | Colloquial sleepyhead: lethargic person |
–267.F07+ | Slang doss: bed (a very cheap one) |
–267.F07+ | phrase dog in the manger: someone who will neither use something himself nor allow others to use it (from a fable about a dog preventing an ox from eating hay from a manger) |
267.F08 | manger. |
–267.F08+ | Nautical manger: a space at the bow of a ship for catching excess water |
267.L01 | There was a |
–267.L01+ | (limerick opening formula) |
267.L02 | sweet hopeful |
–267.L02+ | |
267.L03 | culled Cis. |
–267.L03+ | called |
–267.L03+ | German Cis: C sharp |
–267.L03+ | sis (*I*) [.08] |
267.L04 | The Big Bear |
–267.L04+ | Great Bear: the Ursa Major constellation |
267.L05 | bit the Sailor's |
–267.L05+ | |
267.L06 | Only. Trouble, |
–267.L06+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Trouble, trouble...} | {Png: ...Trouble trouble...} |
267.L07 | trouble, trouble. |
–267.L07+ | |
267.L08 | Forening Unge |
–267.L08+ | Kristelig Forening for Unge Kvinder: the Danish Y.W.C.A. |
–267.L08+ | warning young Christ-like Kevin |
267.L09 | Kristlike Kvinne. |
–267.L09+ | |
267.R01 | URGES AND |
–267.R01+ | |
267.R02 | WIDERURGES |
–267.R02+ | German wider-: against-, counter- |
–267.R02+ | German wieder: again |
267.R03 | IN A PRIMI- |
–267.R03+ | |
267.R04 | TIVE SEPT. |
–267.R04+ | sept: clan (primarily referring to the ancient clans of Ireland) [.17] |
–267.R04+ | French sept: seven (colours of the rainbow) [.13] |
–267.R04+ | sect |
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