noun:

• Algol (algorithmic language) - IT term
• Algol (star in the constellation Perseus); Beta Persei - Astronomy term

noun / ~する noun:

• observation; watching (developments)
• looking out (into the distance)

noun:

• small cedar - abbreviation - archaism
• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) ➜ 小杉原

noun:

• picture-matching (with card games, etc.); matching pictures
• picture-matching contest (popular in the Heian period); e-awase

noun:

• cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning
• (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring) ➜ 煤掃き

noun:

• virtuous deed; act of merit - Buddhism term
• grace (of the buddhas and gods); blessing - Buddhism term

noun:

• (possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance) - four character idiom
• establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615)

noun:

• growing older
• aging ceremony (on New Year's Eve or the last night of winter)

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

noun:

• palsy; paralysis
• every second solar term (occurring in the latter half of each month) ➜ 二十四節気

noun / ~する noun:

• accompanying; being in attendance on

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

noun:

• entrance to a daimyo's mansion
• glans (of the penis)

noun / ~の noun:

• lament (song); elegy; dirge; sad song
• Lamentations (book of the Bible)

noun:

• woman textile worker
• Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae - Astronomy term ➜ 織女星・ベガ

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stand on ceremony
• to stiffen up (the nerves); to be tense

noun:

• (small) red dragonfly
• darter (dragonfly of genus Sympetrum, esp. the autumn darter, Sympetrum frequens)

noun:

• female weaver
• Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae - Astronomy term ➜ 織女星【しょくじょせい】

suffix:

• Sirs; Mesdames - pluralizing suffix - honorific language
• around (the time that, etc.); about - also かた

noun:

• book containing a collection of poems
• Psalms (book of the Bible)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stab; to thrust (into)
• to plant (in the ground); to stick upright

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick (to); to cling (to)
• to stay (e.g. in the office)

noun:

• proverb; maxim; aphorism
• Proverbs (book of the Bible)

noun / adjectival noun:

• elegance; grace Antonym: 俗【ぞく】

noun:

• festal song (genre of the Shi Jing) ➜ 六義

ichidan verb:

• to surpass; to outdo; to excel; to stand out; to be outstanding; to be preeminent
• to tower above (the surrounding landscape)

noun:

• danger
• Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 危宿・二十八宿・玄武【げんぶ】