noun:

• a matter for the police; with the police involved; a brush with the law - four character idiom

noun:

• pencil case; pencil box; writing brush case

noun:

• pencil case; pen case; writing case; brush case

noun:

• hitting a ball; batting; stroke - Sports term

noun:

• weed cutter; grass cutter; brush cutter
• lawn mower ➜ 芝刈り機

noun:

• duff (golf); sclaff; hitting the ground behind the ball during a stroke - Sports term
• duff (e.g. plum) - Food term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to duff (golf); to sclaff; to hit the ground behind the ball during a stroke - Sports term ➜ ダフ

noun:

• butterfly (swimming stroke)
• G-string; gee-string

noun / suffix:

• (a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke)
• remaining (e.g. poste-restante)
• forty-five degree angle ［留め］

noun:

• looking up a word or kanji by its reading (rather than by its radical or stroke count)
• katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark - colloquialism ➜ 長音符【ちょうおんぷ】

noun:

• way one holds (one's writing brush); how to hold (chopsticks)

~の noun / adjectival noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• ruffled (hair, brush bristles, etc.); unkempt; dishevelled; untidy; tousled - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• idling away time; dawdling; dilly-dallying - onomatopoeia

noun:

• three major diseases (cancer, cerebral stroke, acute myocardial infarction)

noun:

• megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl); mound builder

noun / ~する noun:

• turn (stroke) of good fortune; one's fortune turning for the better - four character idiom

noun:

• pulling something out (in a stroke); plucking out
• forcibly removing one after another (e.g. demonstrators)
• overtaking multiple people (in a spurt); pulling ahead

noun:

• locomotor ataxia; difficulty walking or speaking (due to alcoholism, a stroke, etc.); someone with this problem - colloquialism - sensitive

adjective:

• difficult to write or draw; does not write well (pen, brush, etc.)

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to pay (e.g. money, bill)
• to brush off; to wipe away; to clear away; to dust off; to cut off (e.g. branches)
• to drive away (e.g. one's competitors)
• to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of
• to pay (e.g. attention); to show (e.g. respect, concern)
• to make (e.g. effort, sacrifice); to expend; to exert
• to move out (of one's own place); to vacate
• to sweep (e.g. one's legs); to knock aside
• to make a sweeping stroke (in Japanese calligraphy)
• to reset (an abacus)

noun:

• scabbard; sheath
• cap (on pen, brush, etc.); case; sleeve
• margin (between two prices); spread; markup; commission - Business term
• enclosure; outer fence

noun:

• kindling burned in shrines and temples - archaism
• special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year) - archaism
• kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryo period - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to steal; to rob; to snatch; to pocket; to plunder
• to deceive; to trick; to cheat
• to graze (in passing); to skim; to brush against; to touch lightly
• to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.); to flit (through one's mind, across one's face)
• to do (something) while no one is looking - often as 目をかすめて
• to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• one's own handwriting; autograph
• as written with a brush

noun:

• (a) touch of; tinge of; wreath (e.g. of smoke)
• one stroke; one brush

noun:

• one plot (of land); one block (i.e. one city block); one area; one lot
• one brush stroke; one kanji stroke