expression:

• rain that starts to fall as though trying to prevent a guest from leaving

noun:

• main menu in a restaurant, as opposed to the lunchtime menu

noun:

• aiming for a lucky break (e.g. in horse racing, betting on an unlikely horse)

noun:

• type of leather belt worn with ceremonial court dress and decorated with a rhinoceros horn - obscure term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking metal against stone) - obscure term

noun:

• yellow dog contract (employment contract which forbids the employee to join a labor union)

noun:

• territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.)
• countryside - archaism

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to (relax and) stretch one's legs out
• to go for a further walk

noun:

• kun (in Chinese mythology, giant fish said to be able to turn into a bird) - archaism ➜ 鵬

noun:

• collecting bones and remains (e.g. on a battlefield)
• putting cremated remains in an urn

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to learn a lesson (usu. from an unpleasant experience); to be good for someone

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• deuteragonist; secondary or supporting actor in a noh or kyogen play (possibly multiple actors) ➜ 仕手

noun:

• backyard
• background
• room in a store or restaurant not open to customers (often storage room) - colloquialism

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

noun:

• horn shark (Heterodontus francisci, a bullhead shark from the Eastern Pacific)

noun:

• Nebrius; genus of a single species of nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae

noun:

• series of articulated plates attached to the back and sides of a Japanese helmet ➜ 兜

noun:

• extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture) - obscure term ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• distemper painting - esp. どろえ ➜ 泥絵の具
• painting made with gold or silver paint (usu. on a dark background) - esp. でいえ ➜ 金銀泥絵

noun:

• person at a public bath in charge of heating the water and filling the baths

noun:

• something cold (esp. a body)
• something used to cool one's stomach

noun:

• game in which one makes a big snowball by rolling it around in the snow

noun:

• full signal strength (on a cellphone); good cellphone reception; three bars [literal] - from バリバリ三本 - colloquialism

noun:

• saliva; spit; spittle
• fluid (in Chinese medicine, esp. a colourless bodily fluid, e.g. tears)