godan ~む verb:

• to snatch (at); to grab

noun:

• draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh ［いきじめ］ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• fasting fish for several days to preserve flavour and quality (and reduce mortality during transport) - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】
• killing fish in a fishtank (immediately before cooking); fish killed in a fishtank - esp. いきしめ ➜ 活け締め【いけじめ】

noun:

• courtesy car (e.g. at a hotel)

noun:

• tall chair (e.g. for eating at a counter); bar stool
• high-chair; tall child's chair, often with a tray for food ➜ 子供椅子

noun:

• colophon (at the end of a book); imprint; publication information

noun:

• eating lunch alone (esp. at the office); sad lunch - from さびしい + ランチ - colloquialism

noun:

• Yemen monitor (Varanus yemenensis, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found at the base of the Tihama mountains along the western coast of Yemen)

noun:

• chief kagura dancer (of kagura performed at the imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• announcing meals (at a Zen monastery); meal announcer - Buddhism term
• noh mask resembling a young attendant who announces mealtimes in a Zen monastery

noun:

• (at) a glance; (judging from) appearances

noun / ~する noun:

• emperor's arrival (at his office, etc.) - honorific language Antonym: 入御

noun:

• Newtonian telescope (having a secondary mirror at 45 degrees, reflecting light into the eyepiece)

noun:

• Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to stare back (at); to glare back

expression / ichidan verb:

• to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to improve one's skill (esp. at calligraphy or drinking larger amounts of alcohol) - idiom

noun:

• examination table (at a doctor's office)

noun:

• red hakama (worn by miko or noblewomen at court) ➜ 紅の袴【くれないのはかま】

noun:

• (at) our expense; (on) our risk - four character idiom

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) ➜ 内道場

noun:

• copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus, only member of Carcharhinus found mostly at temperate latitudes); bronze whaler; narrowtooth shark ➜ クロヘリメジロザメ

noun:

• ukyounodaibu (title under the ritsuryo system at the imperial court) - archaism ➜ 律令

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put a damper on proceedings (e.g. at a meeting or party, etc.)

noun:

• hill in a monkey enclosure (at a zoo, etc.)

noun:

• backmarker (competitor at the tail of the field, likely to be lapped)