adverb:

• gushing out (e.g. sweat or blood); flowing profusely - onomatopoeia
• thump-thump; bang-bang; pit-a-pat; pitapat; pitter-patter - onomatopoeia
• sound of hoofbeats - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• ready-made meal, usually purchased in store and taken home; home meal replacement; HMR

noun:

• mind-made body; body as born out of a certain kind of intent or mindfulness - Buddhism term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to measure; to weigh; to survey; to time (sound, gauge, estimate)
• to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

noun:

• day of the boar in the tenth month ➜ 亥の子
• mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; the neighbour's salted rice bran paste (smells sweeter) [literal] - proverb

expression:

• one should not rush to make a profit; business is best run when sales flow like a cow's drool: long and thin - obscure term

noun:

• scroll; rolled book; makimono - usu. 巻(き)物
• scarf; muffler; stole - usu. 巻きもの
• sushi made rolled in nori seaweed with a core of filling - usu. 巻きもの ➜ 巻き寿司【まきずし】

noun:

• adding sounds to a soundtrack after a film has been made; postrecording; postsynchronization; postsynchronisation; postlooping; dubbing - From English "after recording"

expression:

• to rule a country requires many great men; an expensive fur coat will not be made with a single fox [literal] - proverb

noun:

• formal folding fan made of hinoki cypress
• blackberry lily (Belamcanda Chinensis); leopard lily; leopard flower

noun:

• woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves) - abbreviation
• beggar ➜ 薦被り
• Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia) - archaism ➜ 真菰

noun:

• bamboo door; door or screen made of fine bamboo strips, allowing air to pass through

noun:

• var. of mochi made from a mixture of rice flour and sweet bean paste (famous product of Kagoshima)

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 迷い箸

noun:

• hovering one's chopsticks back and forth over side dishes, when trying to choose which one to take (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 惑い箸

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to decline (in prosperity); to become deserted; to become desolate
• to taper off (of a sound)

adverb / noun:

• (sound) of clashing swords; (arguing) as fiercely as clashing and blocking swords - four character idiom

noun:

• moon-viewing on either the night of the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunisolar calendar or on the night of the 13th day of the 9th month of the lunisolar calendar, but not both nights

expression / noun:

• beginning to learn (something) when one is old; not being too old to learn - idiom

adverb:

• increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

expression / adjective:

• there is no need to ...
• never happens; there is never a time when

noun:

• sweet dumpling made with mochi flour and (sometimes) millet flour (famous product of Okayama) - esp. 吉備団子
• millet dumplings - esp. 黍団子

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have glazed eyes (when drunk, angry, etc.); to have glassy eyes