noun:

• drybrush; brush which gives a blurred effect in writing or painting

noun:

• half-face makeup; makeup on half the face ➜ メーク

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to sniff out; to catch the scent of

expression:

• surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to make an onslaught (on); to close in (on)

expression:

• not straightforward; not dealt with by ordinary means ➜ 一筋縄

noun:

• bystander's vantage point; outsider's better grasp of the situation - four character idiom

expression:

• onlookers see more of the game than the players do; people watching a game of go see 8 moves further ahead [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• wetting oneself; peeing in one's pants - children's language

noun:

• Cancer (constellation); the Crab

noun:

• blow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to somebody else's fight

noun:

• nurse call; a patient's call button in a hospital

noun:

• depopulation; falling population; decrease in population; population decline

noun:

• joint action; acting in unison

expression:

• if you look carefully, it's more ordinary than it appears; the ghost, when examined closely, was withered silver grass [literal]

noun:

• Holland; The Netherlands ➜ 和蘭【オランダ】

noun / ~の noun:

• right opposite; directly across; just in front of; face to face

noun:

• saomono; Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro) - abbreviation ➜ 棹物菓子

noun:

• Apolemichthys; genus of marine angelfishes in the family Pomacanthidae

noun:

• Artiodactyla; order comprising the even-toed ungulates

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to say time and time again; to say till you're blue in the face

adverb:

• moderately; in moderation

noun:

• miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word - four character idiom ➜ 魯魚の誤り【ろぎょのあやまり】

noun:

• Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found widely distributed over South Asia); common Indian monitor

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts); to turn the potential disaster to one's advantage - idiom

expression:

• I'm not so sure; I can hardly say with any finality that ...