[13] Harriers and beagles: dogs used for hunting hares.
[14] Keepers: game-keepers.
[15] Hare and Hounds: next to foot-ball, this is the great sport at Rugby. Several boys representing the hares, start to run a certain course, and are shortly after followed by the whole school as hounds. In some cases thirteen miles have been run in less than an hour and a half.
[16] Sparring: boxing.
[17] Medes and Persians: ancient nations of the east; noted for their adherence to the laws of their forefathers.
[18] Maudlin: silly.
[19] Dips: cheap tallow candles.
[20] Muff: usually a soft, useless kind of person; here, codger.
[21] Jugs: pitchers.
[22] William IV.: 1830 to 1837.