noun:

• keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life
• keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills

noun:

• deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed - four character idiom

noun:

• divorce of a couple who have been married for a long time (brought on by retirement of the husband) - colloquialism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to blunder; to bungle; to fail - archaism
• to use up all one's money (esp. on the services of prostitutes) - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• killing one's catch on the spot (e.g. a bird)
• killing a fish immediately to preserve its freshness

noun:

• oiled multi-layered paper sheet used to sit or sleep on (during the summer); oiled-paper cushion; wax-cloth

expression / ichidan verb:

• to go too far; to go to excess; to carry too far - idiom

noun:

• cow spot pattern (as on the hide of a cow); cow-skin pattern

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to get along; to hit it off; to be on the same page; to work well together; to synchronize

conjunction:

• and then; besides; on top of that
• in that case; that being the case; if so

noun:

• Buddhist name; priest's name (on entering the priesthood) - Buddhism term
• posthumous Buddhist name - Buddhism term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put on the brakes; to put a stop to

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be ready to cry; to be on the point of tears ➜ べそをかく

godan ~る verb:

• to go viral; to make a buzz (on the Internet); to buzz - colloquialism

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to count on the abacus
• to calculate cost-benefit; to calculate profitability

noun:

• design (on a banner); emblem (on a flag); insignia
• banner (e.g. of democracy); slogan; cause; objective

expression / ichidan verb:

• to look on enviously while doing nothing; to look on with a finger in one's mouth [literal] - often 〜て見る

noun:

• play put on in a village; play put on by villagers

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start on a journey; to go on a military expedition

noun:

• in-car announcement (on a train); PA system on a train

adverb:

• now; soon; shortly; before long; presently
• already; yet; by now; (not) anymore ➜ すでに
• further; more; again; another; the other

interjection:

• tsk; dammit; jeez; come on - used to strengthen expression of an emotion (often exasperation)

noun:

• curved wooden support on top of the main beam of a house, now mainly decorative (shape evocates an open-legged frog)

noun:

• killing a would-be avenger
• having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game

noun:

• making adjustments based on experience; doing something by feel; skill; knack

noun / ~する noun:

• going easy on someone; making allowances; using discretion; taking various circumstances into account

noun:

• the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
• varna (each of the four Hindu castes) ➜ ヴァルナ