noun:

• meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master - archaism

noun:

• part of the fabric that is wrapped farthest from the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono) ➜ 下前
• percentage; commission ➜ 上米【うわまい】

noun:

• stormwater inlet; street inlet

noun:

• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

noun:

• black-tailed gull (Larus crassirostris)

noun:

• superscript - IT term ➜ 上付き文字

noun:

• leap day

noun:

• fish scaler

noun:

• plum blossoms (as a harbinger of spring)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to neglect; to shun; to alienate; to distance oneself from

expression:

• amorous rumour (rumor); romantic gossip

godan ~す verb:

• to hammer out thinly (e.g. goldleaf)

noun:

• 2:00 to 2:30 AM; 3:00 to 3:30 AM
• dead of night; middle of the night; midnight

noun:

• woman who played music, danced and worked as a prostitute; good-time girl - archaism

noun:

• floating mass (of waterweeds, ice, etc.)
• floating island (mirage)

noun:

• Big Bang (theory)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to boast; to brag
• to recite (a song or poem to oneself)
• to bark; to roar; to howl

noun:

• upper right (corner)

expression:

• birds of a feather flock together; horses work best together; don't mix your horses with your cows - proverb ➜ 牛は牛連れ馬は馬連れ

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• innocent; naive; unsophisticated; inexperienced; green; wet behind the ears - esp. 初, 初心

prefix noun:

• birth- - 産, 生

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knock down; to shoot down; to lop off

noun:

• lining; ceiling; wainscoting; wainscotting

noun:

• hind foot; hind-legs

expression / noun:

• ripe fruit; mellow fruit

noun:

• flavour enhancer (e.g. monosodium glutamate); flavor enhancer