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576.01scabie, handed down to the jury of the Liffey that, as a matter of
–576.01+VI.C.3.002k (p): === VI.B.6.139b ( ): 'handed down (sentence)'
–576.01+Legalese hand down: to deliver (a decision, verdict, sentence, etc.)
–576.01+VI.B.44.116c (b): 'jury of the liffey'
–576.01+Liffey river
–576.01+phrase as a matter of fact: actually
–576.01+Legalese phrase as a matter of law: legally
576.02tact, the woman they gave as free was born into contractual in-
–576.02+Hall Caine: The Woman Thou Gavest Me (a best-selling 1913 British melodramatic novel about the struggles of a devout Catholic woman married to a cruel profligate husband, by an author who lived much of his life on the Isle of Man) [.03]
–576.02+Legalese give: (of a judge or jury) to declare authoritatively
–576.02+(born into slavery)
–576.02+VI.A.0851ci (g): 'woman's contractual incapacity'
–576.02+Legalese contractual incapacity: the nature of a person being legally incompetent to enter a binding agreement or sign a contract (e.g. children, some mentally disabled people, and, previously, married women)
576.03capacity (the Calif of Man v the Eaudelusk Company) when, how
–576.03+VI.B.44.108a (o): 'Men v W's' (i.e. wives or women) [.06]
–576.03+VI.B.13.039c (g): 'banker v banker' [.06]
–576.03+Calf of Man: a small rocky island off the southwestern coast of the Isle of Man [.02]
–576.03+calif: a political-religious Muslim leader, considered a successor of the prophet Mohammed (usually spelled 'caliph')
–576.03+Legalese v.: against (in the title of court cases, i.e. plaintiff against defendant; from Latin versus: against)
–576.03+odalisque: a female concubine or slave in a Muslim harem [.07]
–576.03+Archaic eau de luce: a type of pungent liquid volatile soap, previously used to treat insect and snake bites, or as a smelling salt (from French eau de: water of)
–576.03+Irish duileasc: dulse, an edible seaweed (popular in Ireland)
–576.03+lusk: lazy, sluggish (said of people or of flowing water)
–576.03+Lusk: a village north of Dublin
–576.03+company: a commercial business; companionship (Obsolete sexual relationship, sexual intercourse)
–576.03+Motif: time/space (when, where)
576.04and where mamy's mancipium act did not apply and therefore held
–576.04+Childish mammy's man: mother's boy
–576.04+ma, act (Colloquial ma: mother) [.06]
–576.04+VI.B.7.239b (g): 'mancipium'
–576.04+Vico: Principj di una Scienza Nuova 54 (II.xxvi): (of acquisition of land) 'Determinazione delle prime Occupazioni, Usucapioni e Mancipazioni' (Italian 'Determination of the first Occupations, Usucaptions and Mancipations') [537.23]
–576.04+Latin mancipium: in Roman law, the formal transfer of ownership through a process of solemn witnessed verbal contract; land, goods or slaves so purchased
–576.04+Legalese act: a law enacted by a legislative body
–576.04+Legalese hold: (of a judge) to state as a point of law
576.05supremely that, as no property in law can exist in a corpse,
–576.05+Obsolete supremely: with supreme authority
–576.05+The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. IV, 'Burial and Burial Acts', 823d: 'A corpse is not the subject of property, nor capable of holding property'
576.06(Hal Kilbride v Una Bellina) Pepigi's pact was pure piffle (loud
–576.06+VI.B.44.108a (o): 'Men v W's' (i.e. wives or women) [.03]
–576.06+VI.B.13.039c (g): 'banker v banker' [.03]
–576.06+VI.B.44.170d (b): 'Harry Kilbride'
–576.06+Henry VIII (nicknamed Hal, had two of his wives killed) and Anne Boleyn (one of the two)
–576.06+Kilbride: village, County Wicklow [203.02]
–576.06+Legalese v.: against (in the title of court cases, i.e. plaintiff against defendant; from Latin versus: against)
–576.06+Italian una bellina: a pretty one (feminine)
–576.06+Ballina: town, County Mayo (also, village, County Tipperary)
–576.06+Motif: alliteration (p, w)
–576.06+Cluster: Tango-Tetigi-Pango-Pepigi
–576.06+pact: a binding mutual agreement, a covenant
–576.06+pa, act (Colloquial pa: father) [.04]
–576.06+Slang piffle: feeble talk, foolish nonsense
–576.06+in trial accounts, loud laughter in the courtroom is usually indicated in parentheses, exactly as here [575.16]
576.07laughter) and Wharrem would whistle for the rhino. Will you,
–576.07+VI.B.13.215d (g): '(Laughter)' [575.16]
–576.07+Warren [574.04]
–576.07+harem [.03]
–576.07+VI.B.13.023f (g): 'whistle for the for her rhino'
–576.07+Colloquial whistle for: to seek in vain, to fail to get, to go without [.09]
–576.07+Slang rhino: money
–576.07+Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ch. X: 'Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?'
–576.07+Cluster: William
576.08won't you, pango with Pepigi? Not for Nancy, how dare you do!
–576.08+Cluster: Tango-Tetigi-Pango-Pepigi (twice)
–576.08+tango: to dance the tango
–576.08+VI.B.13.023g (g): 'How dare you do'
–576.08+phrase how dare you (expressing shock or anger at something said or done)
–576.08+phrase how do you do (a formal greeting) [.09]
576.09And whew whewwhew whew.
–576.09+(whistling 'how do you do') [.07-.08]
–576.09+(sighing) [.10]
576.10    — He sighed in sleep.
–576.10+{{Synopsis: III.4.4M.A: [576.10-576.17]: let us go back to bed — from the twins' room to the parents'}}
–576.10+[[Speaker: *A* to *E*, probably]] [.12]
576.11    — Let us go back.
–576.11+[[Speaker: *E* to *A*, probably]] [.13] [.17]
576.12    — Lest he forewaken.
–576.12+awaken
576.13    — Hide ourselves.
–576.13+
576.14     While hovering dreamwings, folding around, will hide from
–576.14+[[Speaker: *A*]]
–576.14+Motif: While... ring... for to... ling [.14-.15] [578.01-.02]
576.15fears my wee mee mannikin, keep my big wig long strong mano-
–576.15+Irish fear: man, husband
–576.15+Anglo-Irish wee: tiny
–576.15+Colloquial wee: to urinate
–576.15+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...mee...} | {JJA 60:292: ...nee...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 60:301, where it is 'me', to become 'mee' by JJA 61:103)
–576.15+mannikin: a very small man
–576.15+Manneken Pis: a famous statue in Brussels of a child urinating
–576.15+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...keep my...} | {Png: ...keep by...}
–576.15+bigwig: a man of high importance
–576.15+man o' men: man of men, a man of remarkable excellence
576.16men, guard my bairn, mon beau.
–576.16+Dialect bairn: child, son
–576.16+French mon beau: my beautiful, my handsome (masculine)
576.17    — To bed.
–576.17+
576.18     Prospector projector and boomooster giant builder of all
–576.18+{{Synopsis: III.4.4M.B: [576.18-577.35]: a prayer to a road-building and travel-protecting divinity — for the parents' safe journey back to the conjugal bed}}
–576.18+VI.B.40.146a (b): 'projector prospector'
–576.18+nursery rhyme Hector Protector
–576.18+Ibsen: all plays: The Master Builder (in Norwegian, Bygmester Solness: Master Builder Solness) [.28]
–576.18+Giant's Causeway: a columnar basalt promontory, Country Antrim, Northern Ireland
576.19causeways woesoever, hopping offpoint and true terminus of
–576.19+VI.B.8.104h (g): 'causeway' [080.02]
–576.19+causeway: a raised road across a boggy or watery place
–576.19+Archaic wheresoever: wherever
–576.19+woe
–576.19+Colloquial hopping-off point: location from which one travels to another place, point of departure
–576.19+VI.B.8.124i (g): 'Terminus'
–576.19+Terminus: Roman god responsible for protecting boundary markers (between land lots)
–576.19+terminus: the station at the end of a rail, tram or bus route
576.20straxstraightcuts and corkscrewn perambulaups, zeal whence to
–576.20+American single-track street cars: tram cars with one track shared by both directions (as opposed to double-track street cars, where each direction has its own track)
–576.20+Danish straks: immediately, at once, straight away (previously spelled 'strax')
–576.20+VI.B.19.042c ( ): 'straight cut'
–576.20+straight, corkscrewed (opposites)
–576.20+corpse-strewn
–576.20+perambulators
–576.20+Landsmaal laup: a run, a race, a course
–576.20+loops
–576.20+German Ziel: goal, purpose, destination
–576.20+Archaic whence, whither: from where, to where (opposites)
576.21goal whither, wonderlust, in sequence to which every muckle
–576.21+wanderlust: a strong desire or longing to travel
–576.21+Dialect proverb Many a mickle makes a muckle: many small amounts become a large amount (a corruption of 'Many a little makes a mickle', since both mickle and muckle mean 'a large amount'; Motif: coincidence of contraries)
–576.21+Motif: alliteration (m)
576.22must make its mickle, as different as York from Leeds, being the
–576.22+phrase as different as chalk from cheese: very different
–576.22+York, Leeds: two cities in Yorkshire, England
–576.22+York and Lancaster (Motif: Wars of the Roses)
576.23only wise in a muck's world to look on itself from beforehand;
–576.23+Archaic wise: way, manner
–576.23+Arabic ahmaq: a fool
–576.23+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...beforehand...} | {JJA 60:159: ...beforeland...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 60:352)
576.24mirrorminded curiositease and would-to-the-large which bring
–576.24+Coleridge: other works: Biographia Literaria, ch. 15: 'myriad-minded Shakespeare' (Joyce: Ulysses.9.768: 'Coleridge called him myriadminded')
–576.24+curiosities
–576.24+tease
–576.24+the world at large
–576.24+bring mountains to Mohammed (proverb If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain: if one cannot have one's own way, one must concede to the inevitable)
576.25hills to molehunter, home through first husband, perils behind
–576.25+Motif: alliteration (h) [.25-.26]
–576.25+phrase making a mountain out of a molehill: overreacting to a minor issue, exaggerating the importance of a trivial problem
–576.25+R.L. Stevenson: Requiem: (ends) 'And the hunter home from the hill'
–576.25+VI.B.13.205a (g): 'perils behind'
–576.25+Matthew 7:6: 'pearls before swine'
576.26swine and horsepower down to hungerford, prick this man and
–576.26+Hungerford: town, Berkshire, England
–576.26+Hurdle Ford (the Irish name of Dublin)
–576.26+Ford: famous brand of cars
–576.26+Archaic prick: to urge (someone) forward, as if with a goad or spur
–576.26+Slang prick: penis
576.27tittup this woman, our forced payrents, Bogy Bobow with his
–576.27+Colloquial giddyup: to urge (a horse) forward
–576.27+tittup: to walk in a prancing manner; (of a horse) to canter
–576.27+Dialect tittup: brazen or sexually promiscuous woman
–576.27+Slang tit: female breast; female genitalia
–576.27+Slang tup: to have sex with
–576.27+phrase our first parents: Adam and Eve
–576.27+forced to pay rent
–576.27+(*E* with *A*) [.27-.29]
–576.27+VI.B.24.140a (b): 'Bogi Babow & his cunnynguest couchmare'
–576.27+pantomime Ali Baba (and the Forty Thieves)
–576.27+bogy: bogey, bugbear, dreaded monster, terrifying person
–576.27+Serbo-Croatian Bog: God
–576.27+Italian babau: bogey, bugbear, dreaded monster, terrifying person
–576.27+Italian Childish babbo: father, daddy (used by Joyce regularly in signing his letters to his son)
–576.27+Slang bow: penis
576.28cunnyngnest couchmare, Big Maester Finnykin with Phenicia
–576.28+cunningest
–576.28+Slang cunny: Slang nest: female genitalia
–576.28+Conyngham Road runs along the southeastern edge of Phoenix Park
–576.28+coach-mare: female coach-horse
–576.28+French cauchemar: nightmare
–576.28+couch
–576.28+VI.B.24.136b ( ): 'Bigmacester Finnykin & Phoenicia Parkes, ness paar?' === VI.B.21.138d ( ): 'Phenicia Park'
–576.28+Ibsen: all plays: The Master Builder (in Norwegian, Bygmester Solness: Master Builder Solness) [.18]
–576.28+Finnegan
–576.28+Archaic finnikin: finicky, fastidious, fussy about trifling details
–576.28+finny: having fins (like a fish)
–576.28+Phoenix Park
–576.28+Phoenicia: an ancient maritime civilisation that flourished along the eastern Mediterranean coast in the 3rd to 1st millennia BC
576.29Parkes, lame of his ear and gape of her leg, most correctingly,
–576.29+VI.B.8.173c (g): 'lame of an ear'
–576.29+Archaic lame of: crippled or impaired in (a specified body part, most commonly the leg)
576.30we beseach of you, down their laddercase of nightwatch service
–576.30+beseech
–576.30+each
–576.30+(staircase)
576.31and bring them at suntime flush with the nethermost gangrung
–576.31+VI.B.8.200i (g): 'Suntime'
–576.31+(sunrise)
–576.31+sometime
–576.31+VI.B.8.200e (g): 'flush with'
–576.31+phrase flush with: even or level with, on the same plane as
–576.31+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...nethermost...} | {JJA 60:159: ...nethernmost...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 60:267)
–576.31+Variants: elucidations for variant: northernmost
–576.31+Archaic nethermost: lowest, furthest down
–576.31+(bottom step of staircase; bottom rung of ladder)
–576.31+Obsolete gang: journey, course, path; a rung of a ladder
576.32of their stepchildren, guide them through the labyrinth of their
–576.32+
576.33samilikes and the alteregoases of their pseudoselves, hedge them
–576.33+semi-likes, alter-egos, pseudo-selves (versions of themselves)
–576.33+same, like (resembling)
–576.33+VI.B.8.002l (g): 'alter ego' [463.07]
–576.33+hedge: to surround or protect (as if with a hedge)
576.34bothways from all roamers whose names are ligious, from loss
–576.34+both ways
–576.34+the Goths played a central role in the fall of the Roman Empire in the 4th-5th centuries
–576.34+German Römer: Romans
–576.34+Mark 5:9: (a multi-faceted demon or group of demons exorcised by Jesus) 'My name is Legion: for we are many'
–576.34+Italian ligio: faithful, loyal
576.35of bearings deliver them; so they keep to their rights and be
–576.35+bearings: knowledge or sense of one's location and direction (hence, loss = disorientation); births, acts of bringing forth children (hence, loss = miscarriages)
–576.35+deliver: to save (from a danger); to assist in the birth of (a child)
–576.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...keep...} | {JJA 60:160: ...kreep...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 60:267)
–576.35+Variants: elucidations for variant: creep
–576.35+phrase keep to the right: drive or walk on the right side of a road or path
–576.35+right, duty (opposites)
–576.35+beware
576.36ware of duty frees, neoliffic smith and magdalenian jinnyjones,
–576.36+duty-free wares: articles of merchandise that can be bought under special conditions without paying certain taxes
–576.36+(*E* and *A*) [576.36-577.18]
–576.36+VI.B.42.073d (g): 'neoliffic'
–576.36+Neolithic: belonging to the late stone age, an archaeological period that saw humans change from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of settlement dwelling, based on farming and animal domestication
–576.36+Liffey river
–576.36+Smith, Jones (very common surnames)
–576.36+Magdalenian: belonging to an archaeological culture that flourished in the early and middle stone ages in western Europe
–576.36+Magdalene laundries: notorious Catholic and Protestant institutions in 18th-20th century Ireland (and elsewhere), ostensibly set up to house and rehabilitate promiscuous women and prostitutes by confining them and employing them as laundresses (Motif: Magdalene laundry)
–576.36+children's game Jinny Jones: 'Jinny Jones is washing clothes... Jinny Jones is dead' (a game in which a group of players (e.g. suitors, friends) repeatedly attempt to visit Jinny Jones, each time receiving a different excuse from another player (e.g. Jinny's mother), most related to her doing laundry, until they learn that Jinny is in fact dead)


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