[1] _Black._ Dark.
[2] _Choleric._ Liable to anger.
[3] _Digesting._ Arranging methodically.
[4] _Depending._ Modern English _pending_.
[5] _Nonage._ Minority.
[6] _Parts._ Powers.
[7] _Public exercises._ Examinations for degrees at Oxford and Cambridge
formerly took the form of public debates.
[8] _Will's_, _Child's_, _St. James's_, _Grecian_. Coffee-houses; all
these, and the cocoa-houses too, tended to become the special haunts of
members of some particular party, profession, etc.; _e.g._, Will's was
literary, St. James's Whig.
[9] _Postman._ A weekly newspaper.
[10] _Economy._ Household management.
[11] _Blots._ Exposed pieces in backgammon.
[12] _Spoken to._ Referred to.
[13] _Complexion._ Countenance.
[14] _Discoveries._ Disclosures.