noun:

• rich and poor, high and low; people of all ranks - four character idiom

noun:

• gang of hoodlums (hooligans); bad company; companion in gang activities - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to declaim; to string together all sorts of flowery words

noun:

• Ramadan (9th month of Muslim calendar); fasting month - From Arabic

noun:

• style of garden that features a path around a pond - obscure term

noun:

• Itayose method; method of trading employed on Japanese exchanges - often 板寄せ方式

noun:

• call number (e.g. of a book in a library)

expression:

• all at once (usu. of payment); at one go - colloquialism

noun:

• even (of a trade); no advantage and no disadvantage

adverb / ~と adverb:

• ding; chime (sound of a bell or a small gong) - onomatopoeia

expression:

• getting nowhere; becoming uncontrollable; getting out of hand; remaining unsatisfied

adverb / ~する noun:

• sound of two hard thin objects rubbing together; crunch crunch - onomatopoeia

noun:

• human chain (chain of people holding hands, usually in protest)

noun:

• palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae) ➜ 椰子【やし】

expression / suffix:

• no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen - after -masu stem of verb

noun:

• union shop system (employment of only union members)

noun:

• starspotted smooth-hound (species of hound shark, Mustelus manazo)

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• towering (as mountains do); of outstanding greatness (as a person) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• returning to a club (one was formerly a member of) - colloquialism - obscure term

noun:

• Commonwealth of Independent States; CIS ➜ 独立国家共同体
• critical incident stress; CIS

noun:

• woolly monkey (any New World monkey of genus Lagothrix) - obscure term ➜ ウーリーモンキー

noun:

• line of defence (defense); lines (as in enemy lines, etc.)

noun:

• siliceous sponge (any sponge other than those of class Calcarea)

noun:

• Thunberg's lespedeza (species of bush clover, Lespedeza thunbergii)

noun:

• listeners' corner (portion of radio programming for correspondence from listeners) - from 普通のお便り