Four-wheeled closed carriage.

Feast of St. Michael, celebrated on September 29.

Strong intellectual ability or other natural talents.

Copy out passages from one’s reading.

Brisk French country dance in which couples face each other in a line.

Right to hunt game.

Rented carriage.

“Vingt-un” is corrupted French for the card game twenty-one, or blackjack. “Commerce” is a fashionable game in which players barter cards with one another.

Where women’s hats are made and sold.

Volunteer troops, for homeland security against an anticipated Napoleonic invasion.

Military dress of an officer of lowest commissioned rank.

Most likely a circulating library that charges a membership fee.

Formerly, one who not only prepared and sold “draughts” of medicine but also prescribed them.

Well-seasoned meat and vegetable stew.

Unfashionable, because commercial, London neighborhood.

Card game in which losing players must contribute to the next pool.

That is, they are all skilled at the feminine decorative arts.

Two-person game played with thirty-two cards.

Lively Scottish dance.

Gravy, egg yolks, almonds, cream, and negus (sweet and spiced wine with water), commonly served at a ball.

Piano; literally “soft-loud,” because its tones can be varied in loudness, unlike those of the harpsichord, a popular keyboard instrument that the piano largely superseded during Austen’s lifetime.

In musical notation, a shorthand method of indicating harmony; also, the study of harmony.

Awarded me.

A week.

Four-person game played with forty cards.

Four-wheeled open carriage.

James Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women (1766) offered conservative advice on female conduct and education.

At Oxford or Cambridge, Mr. Collins met his residency requirements without making the contacts that would help his career.

Card game in which players bet that the card of one player will match that of another.

Decorative art in which women copy the designs of fine china onto plain dishware.

Card game resembling bridge, played by two sets of partners.

Bone or ivory counters, sometimes formed in the shape of a fish.

Ornamental shoe ribbons.

Government fund paying 4 percent (or £40) annual interest.

Costly, smooth writing paper.

Formally entering into society.

Unfashionable street near the commercial district of London.

In a fashionable area of London.

Fence.

Low metal guard or frame in front of an open fireplace.

A screen, sometimes elaborately designed, mounted on a movable frame to protect a woman from the heat of the fireplace.

Game in which players seek to score eleven by combining cards in the hand with those revealed on the table.

Open, two-wheeled, one-horse carriage.

Organization that administers punishment in minor cases.

Enclosed areas.

Group of cultivated trees.

Seaside resort on the English Channel.

Prejudice.

A barouche is a four-wheeled carriage with a high front seat, or “box,” outside for the driver, two facing seats inside, and a folding top.

Hiring a seat in the carriage that carried the mail and that changed horses at regular stops along the route.

Seaside resort in southeastern England.

Bags for needlework.

Crystalline minerals.

Two-wheeled open carriage drawn by two horses.

Elegant living room.

Suburb of London.

A gentleman’s debts accrued by gambling with his peers, which are taken more seriously than debts owed to merchants.

Worn to protect clothes while the hair is being powdered.

Become a prostitute.

House.

The regular army is more prestigious than the militia.

Built in London’s Haymarket in 1720, the Little Theatre was, in its early years, associated with satirical attacks on the government ministry of Sir Robert Walpole.

The canonical hours during which a marriage could take place in church.

In a fashionable London neighborhood.

Fashionable coastal resort town in the north of England.

Money designated for a wife’s private use.