noun:

• Zen monk's waistcoat (short, informal kasaya) - archaism ➜ 袈裟・絡子【らくす】
• ring (usu. made of ivory) attached to this waistcoat
• netsuke; item attached to a netsuke ➜ 根付け

noun:

• a verse (e.g. in the Bible); stanza; paragraph; passage; a joint; section; a tune; note; strain; measure

noun:

• treasure chest (in the story of Urashima Taro); Urashima's casket; Pandora's box
• important secret that is not easily revealed to others

expression:

• a friend is a good thing to have; a good friend is a great blessing

expression:

• a friend is a good thing to have; a good friend is a great blessing ➜ 持つべきものは友

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to capitalise on (experience, etc.)
• to let live; to keep alive
• to revive; to resuscitate; to bring back to life
• to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)

expression:

• that's right; that's so - polite language - colloquialism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at
• to stare intensely at; to examine carefully
• to estimate; to guess; to suspect; to judge
• to keep an eye on someone (e.g. a suspicious or untrustworthy person); to watch - often as 睨まれる ➜ 睨まれる
• to take account of; to take into consideration

noun:

• breaking off contact with someone after having sex with them; wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am; hit it and quit it; fuck and chuck - slang - vulgar

noun:

• workshop ［さいくじょ］ ➜ 工房
• Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies)
• Edo period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.

noun:

• dog-friendly café; eatery which allows people to bring their pet dogs and provides separate menus for dogs and their owners - From English "dog café"

adjectival noun:

• safe; secure; sound; problem-free; without fear; all right; alright; OK; okay

adverb:

• certainly; surely; undoubtedly

interjection / adjectival noun:

• no thanks; I'm good; that's alright - colloquialism

noun:

• great man; fine figure of a man ［だいじょうぶ］ - archaism ➜ 大丈夫【だいじょうふ】

noun:

• salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt)
• cooking a fish inside a salt crust - abbreviation ➜ 塩釜焼き
• candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)

~する verb (spec.):

• to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

noun:

• indigenous person; inhabitant of a country
• local; native ［くにびと］
• local lords and samurai
• daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period) ［くにうど・くにゅうど］ ➜ ざいこくしゅう

~と adverb / adverb:

• ticktock - onomatopoeia
• chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; clicking; clacking; clattering - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• dry and hard; (frozen) stiff - onomatopoeia
• hidebound; die-hard; stubborn; obstinate; bigoted - onomatopoeia
• scared stiff; tense; nervous; frightened - onomatopoeia

noun:

• law office; lawyer's office; attorney's office

noun:

• Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and Western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)

adverb:

• on good terms with; on cordial terms with; getting along well with; happily; peacefully

~する noun:

• to make friends with; to be good friends with; to get along with

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to profit at someone else's expense; to rob Peter to pay Paul; to take risks with other people's money ➜ 人のふんどしで相撲を取る【ひとのふんどしですもうをとる】

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal] - obscure term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take out; to take a handful of; to grab and throw
• to turn someone out (of house, room, etc.)

noun:

• travel writing; travel piece; traveller's journal; traveler's journal

noun:

• cashier's cheque; cashier's check; demand draft; remittance check