expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money; a duck comes carrying a Welsh onion on its back [literal] ➜ 鴨鍋

noun:

• thorn; spine; prickle
• splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone)
• biting words

noun:

• not holding on; not using the hands; letting go one's hold
• lack of reserve (in expressing one's emotions); lack of restraint; openly (saying)

noun:

• silver cock's comb (Celosia argentea, esp. crested cock's comb, Celosia argentea var. cristata)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make one's story to seem coherent; to adjust one's story to fit the situation ➜ 辻褄を合わせる

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint

expression / ichidan verb:

• to collapse; to give up; to lose one's nerve; to have one's knees give way ➜ 腰砕け【こしくだけ】

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to run (race, esp. horse); to dash
• to gallop (one's horse); to canter
• to advance (against one's enemy) - archaism

noun:

• installation of a deity in a new shrine; transfer of a shrine

noun / ~する noun:

• jamming a finger; stubbing a toe; spraining a finger (toe)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be boiled down
• to come to a standstill; to reach an impasse - sometimes considered incorrect - colloquialism
• to approach a conclusion (of a discussion, investigation, etc.)

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal]; good luck does not always repeat itself - proverb

noun:

• flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words - four character idiom

noun:

• god of harvests and wealth (syncretized with Saraswati, and often taking the form of a heavenly woman, a white snake or a fox)

expression / noun:

• brothel (esp. one that allows for penetrative intercourse)
• quickie (in a brothel); short sexual act
• just a short moment; a little while; an instant - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony - archaism ➜ 元服

noun:

• noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility) ［ういかんむり］ ➜ 巻纓・垂纓

noun:

• first departure (of the day: train, bus, etc.); first train; first bus ➜ 終発
• departing one's home station (of a train, bus, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port
• opening a port to foreign vessels or trade

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to row (a boat) up to (a pier)
• to attain; to reach (a certain stage); to manage to do

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to curse; to cast a spell; to haunt; to torment
• to cause a bad result; to bring about a negative outcome

noun:

• (being a) fan of an entire music group (esp. idol group); not having a favorite member of a group - slang ➜ 推し【おし】・単推し

noun:

• Asperger syndrome; Asperger's syndrome; Asperger's

noun:

• being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands

noun:

• telegony; influence of a previous sire on the offspring of a female with a later sire (discredited theory of heredity)