noun:

• drowning one's cares in drink; drinking in desperation

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to rest one's chin in one's hands

noun:

• Rhincodon (genus of one species of whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in the family Rhincodontidae)

noun:

• pitch that hits the batter - Baseball term ➜ デッドボール

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be the case that - sentence-ending expressing judgement

noun:

• once in a lifetime (opportunity); (a golden opportunity that may) happen only once in a thousand years - four character idiom

adverbial noun:

• once; one time; (all at) once; in one sitting
• exclusively; only; alone

noun / ~する noun:

• closing one's eyes and joining one's hands together in prayer - four character idiom

noun:

• holding one's chopsticks in one's mouth (a breach of etiquette)

adjectival noun / noun:

• inhuman; immoral; unreasonable; outrageous; wicked - archaism ➜ 無道

noun:

• (the crime of) barbarity (such as killing three people in one family, or dismembering a corpse) ➜ 八虐

expression:

• child one is expecting; child in one's womb

noun:

• armpit; under one's arm; side; flank
• beside; close to; near; by - also written as 傍, 側
• aside; to the side; away; out of the way
• off-track; off-topic
• deuteragonist; supporting role - usu. written ワキ in Noh
• second verse (in a linked series of poems) - abbreviation ➜ 脇句

adjectival noun:

• so; like that

interjection:

• that's right; indeed
• let me see...

noun:

• provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime

noun:

• quite absurd thing; something ridiculous that makes one laugh
• extremely irritating thing

expression:

• something that one would not expect to exist; something exceedingly rare; jellyfish bones [literal] - obscure term

noun:

• bare midriff (clothing style that exposes one's midriff)

expression / adjective:

• it is not (like that); used to explicitly deny one thing while also implicitly denying other things

expression / adjective:

• (so ashamed or embarrassed that) one does not know where to put oneself; feeling out of place ➜ 身の置き所がない

expression / noun:

• fruits of one's wife's labour (in assisting her husband's career, e.g. by running the household)

noun:

• one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• beyond one's means or position; inappropriate to one's lot in life ➜ 身分相応・分不相応

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get into the swing of (one's work); to hit one's stride
• (for a fish or bird) to put on fat for the winter

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• one point

noun:

• stitched ornament; small needlepoint design
• relief pitcher brought in to face one batter - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ ワンポイントリリーフ

noun:

• circumference; outskirts; environs; around; in the area of; in the vicinity of
• (computer) peripheral - IT term