adverb / ~と adverb:

• intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• light distribution (e.g. in candle-power or candela); luminous intensity distribution; spatial distribution of luminous intensity

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie down; to stretch out
• to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• slanting; tilted; sloping; diagonal; oblique ➜ 斜
• distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood); amiss; awry

noun:

• partition; division; boundary; compartment
• settlement of accounts
• preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark - Sumo term
• directing; controlling; managing; taking responsibility for

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• Buddhist decoration engraved with various motifs, often made from gilt copper (e.g. for adorning the inner shrine of a temple) - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to make a dent in one's purse; to have to pay out of one's own pocket

noun:

• substitute national holiday; day off in lieu of a national holiday that falls on a Sunday; compensatory holiday - abbreviation ➜ 振替休日【ふりかえきゅうじつ】

noun:

• spices; condiments; seasoning
• adjuvant (in Chinese medicine); addition of an adjuvant - Medicine term
• meat, fish, vegetables, etc. added to rice or udon (e.g to make gomoku meshi) - Kansai dialect ➜ 五目飯

noun:

• arm wrestling; Indian wrestling
• wrestling relying on brute strength (of the arms), rather than skill - Sumo term

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~と adverb:

• whistling sound; wheezing sound; sound of the wind; wuthering; howling; soughing; moaning - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to butter up; to try to get on the good side of

noun:

• the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get (e.g. the gist of something); to understand
• to turn out as one thought ➜ 我が意を得たり

noun:

• heuriger; type of Austrian wine tavern where wine-growers serve the most recent year's wine

noun:

• shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck - four character idiom

noun:

• revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan) - four character idiom

noun:

• four posts that used to support the roof over the ring - Sumo term

expression:

• the end justifies the means; circumstances may justify a lie - proverb

noun:

• cargo ships that sailed the Japan Sea during the Edo period - archaism

godan ~る verb:

• to set beyond the Western horizon (i.e. the sun) - poetical term ➜ 入る【いる】

noun:

• secret or hidden place
• female genitalia - euph.
• the underworld; the other world