noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

noun:

• orangespot surgeonfish (Acanthurus olivaceus, species of tang found from the eastern Indian Ocean to the Pacific); orangeband surgeonfish

noun:

• motor cortex (area of the brain just anterior to the central sulcus responsible for controlling voluntary muscle activity)

noun:

• slender smooth-hound (Gollum attenuatus, species of finback catshark from the Southwest Pacific)

noun:

• li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)

noun:

• swallowtail butterfly (esp. the citrus swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus)

noun:

• blowing (e.g. of the wind)

noun / suffix noun:

• playing (a wind instrument); player (e.g. clarinet)

noun:

• (pair of) bellows ➜ 吹子
• casting; founding; melting

noun:

• Cuon (genus containing the dhole)

noun / ~する noun:

• raising (the standard)

noun:

• kingfisher (esp. the common kingfisher, Alcedo atthis)
• jade (gem) ［ひすい］ ➜ 硬玉・軟玉・ジェイド・翡翠色
• beautiful lustrous colour similar to that of the kingfisher's feathers ［ひすい］

noun / ~する noun:

• beheading (as the ending to a seppuku)
• assistance; help

noun:

• 007 (James Bond's code in the books and films); double-oh-seven

noun:

• empty (e.g. intermodal containers in the transport industry) - abbreviation ➜ 実入り【みいり】

ichidan verb:

• to bind together (e.g. the pages of a book); to sew up; to tape together; to stitch together

noun:

• visual area (of the brain); visual cortex

noun:

• Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

noun:

• Obadiah (book of the Bible)

noun:

• sty (on the eyelid); stye - めばちこ is Osaka dialect

noun:

• Metal Age (i.e. the Bronze Age and the Iron Age)

noun:

• iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character) ➜ 踊り字

noun:

• Budget Committee (of the Diet) - abbreviation ➜ 予算委員会

noun:

• spiracle (respiratory pores in the body of insects)

noun:

• recruit (former rank in the JSDF) - obsolete term

noun:

• Kōryaku era (of the Northern Court) (1379.3.22-1381.2.24)

~と adverb / adverb:

• lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore) - onomatopoeia
• steadily (advancing); gradually (approaching) - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object); just enough - often used adverbially as ひたひたに - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adverb:

• speedily; promptly; quickly; smoothly - onomatopoeia - archaism
• closely; exactly - onomatopoeia - archaism