Finnegans Wake



wickered - made of wicker (a pliant twig or small rod, usually of willow, esp. as used for making baskets).

kish - a large square wicker basket used in Ireland for carrying peat.

hale - to draw or pull along, or from one place to another.

turves - pl. of turf

lookit - look at (only in imperative)                                                                           looked

blay - the name of a small fish, the bleak; dark, gray, black.

satisfy

curiosity

sawl - soul

sackful* - the quantity that fills a sack;         vull - full.

swart - dark in colour, black or blackish                                                              smart

goody - affectedly or unctuously good

quicken - arouse, excite, revive, hasten, to shine brightly.

shoon - dial. pl. of shoe

illigant - elegant

brogue - a rude kind of shoe, generally made of untanned hide, worn by the inhabitants of the wilder parts of Ireland and the Scotch Highlands.

blurry - blurred

Town of the Ford of the Hurdle* - Dublin

fall out - to happen, come to pass

brazen - resembling brass in colour

lock* - one of the portions into which a head of hair, a beard, etc., naturally divides itself; a tress. In pl. often = the hair of the head collectively.

damsel - a young unmarried woman

grieve - to feel grief, to be mentally pained or distressed, to sorrow deeply.

puppet* - darling, pet

minion - darling, favourite, a lover

ravished* - carried away by force; violated; ravaged.

ogre - a man-eating monster, usually represented as a hideous giant, a man likened to such a monster in appearance or character.

purpose

pious - faithful to religious duties and observances; devout; dutiful, duteous.

BAILE ÁTHA CLIATH* - Dublin

goodman - husband, innkeeper, landlord

hag - an ugly, repulsive old woman: often with implication of viciousness or maliciousness; an evil spirit, dæmon, or infernal being, in female form; woman supposed to have dealings with Satan and the infernal world; a witch; sometimes, an infernally wicked woman.

caddy - lad, a military cadet, one who takes odd jobs

sentry* - an armed soldier or marine posted at a specified point to keep guard and to prevent the passing of an unauthorized person;                         country man - one who lives in the country or rural parts and follows a rural occupation.

winehouse - wineshop

farce - a dramatic work (usually short) which has for its sole object to excite laughter.

blotty - dauby

parent - apparent

ginn - gin

antediluvian* - concerning or referring to the period before the Flood.

Anno Domini* - in the year of the Christian era

copyist - one who copies or imitates; esp. one whose occupation is to transcribe documents.

scroll - a roll of paper or parchment, usually one with writing upon it.

billy - fellow; companion; a bludgeon; also (U.S.), a policeman's truncheon.

elk - the largest existing animal of the deer kind

satrap* - a subordinate ruler; often suggesting an imputation of tyranny or ostentatious splendour.

wright - a constructive workman.

excelsus (l) - high

empyrean - heaven, the highest heaven, the ultimate heavenly paradise.

bolt - thunderbolt, a lightning stroke

earthquake

gallous = gallows

pan - face, cranium                                                                                                 upon

suicide;    scribe - a scrap of writing.

lead off - to begin, make a beginning in; to open (a conversation or discussion).

fine - end, close; a sum paid for exemption from punishment; a sum of money paid for any benefit or favor.

mark - 160 pence (value of mark weight in pure silver);     mark weight - 8 ounces.

ninepins - a game in which nine 'pins' are set up to be knocked down by a ball or bowl thrown at them, the pins with which this game is played                                                   nine pennies

metalman - a worker who melts metal, a man made of metal.

dross - impurity, rubbish, refuse

now and again - from time to time, occasionally

upshoot - outcome, final result

cynosure* - something that attracts attention by its brilliancy or beauty;      gyne - the fertile female in a colony of social insects.

scaffold* - an elevated platform on which a criminal is executed;         to bring or send to the scaffold  - 'to be executed'.

covertly - in a concealed manner; secretly, privately.

meddlement - meddling, interference

drawers - an undergarment for the lower part of the body.

wife

farfetched* - improbable, not natural, from remote time or place.

peregrine* - roving, alien (adj.)

clere - clear

Liber Legis* - The Book of Law;         lividus (l) - bluish.

paisible - peaceable

eirenical - peaceful, harmonical

dimmer - to appear dimly, faintly, or indistinctly.

dune - an ancient hill fortress in Ireland; a mound of drifted sand.

gloam - to darken, to become dark                                                              glimmering

glade - a clear open space or passage in a wood or forest.

frede - to be sensible of, feel

lean - not plump or fat, thin

neath - beneath

stone pine - a pine with wide-spreading glat topped head

pastor - a herdsman or shepherd (now unusual);     pastor (l) - a herdsman.

crook - a shepard's staff (with a curve)

pricket - a buck in his second year

nibble - to bite away little by little

viridity - a quality or state of being green;      viridis (l) - green.

herbtrinity - plant with violet flowers

sham - to be or to produce a deceptive imitation of, to feign.

lowliness - meekness, humility;     loveliness - the quality of being lovely, exquisite beauty.

donkey's years - a very long time

bout - a round at fighting; a contest, match, trial of strength.

cornflower - plant with blue, pink or white rays