[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.