noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

noun:

• being one in body and soul; of one flesh; two hearts beating as one - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• thundering; purring; grumbling (e.g. stomach) - onomatopoeia
• something large and heavy starting to roll - onomatopoeia
• scattered about; common; commonplace; all over - onomatopoeia
• idleness; idling about - onomatopoeia
• having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• thunder - children's language - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to squeeze (to the utmost); to wring out
• to squeeze (money) out of someone; to wring (money) from
• to scold; to criticize severely; to lay into
• to train ruthlessly; to give punishing training
• to strain (one's voice)
• to gather up (a curtain)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to look at; to gaze at; to watch; to stare at
• to look out over; to get a view of; to admire (e.g. the scenery)
• to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch; to observe

expression:

• being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one) - four character idiom
• know-it-all manner

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs
• to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject); to raise (an issue); to mention

noun:

• picking (esp. distributor picking up merchandise from a storage facility)
• lock picking

noun:

• chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)

noun:

• Aquifoliaceae (plant family); holly

noun:

• Hamamelidaceae (plant family); witch-hazel ➜ 万作

noun:

• Ranunculaceae; plant family containing the crowfoot

noun:

• chive (edible plant with flat leaves, Allium schoenoprasum)

noun:

• gall (abnormal plant growth formed by insects)

noun:

• ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)

noun:

• Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996) ➜ 社会民主党【しゃかいみんしゅとう】

noun:

• echo; reverberation
• sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise
• quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound; emotion or feeling inspired by something heard or read

noun:

• Zhejiang financial clique; Sekko Zaibatsu; clique from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, influential in Shanghai finance from late 1920s through 1930s ➜ 財閥

noun / ~の noun:

• the two views (of an object) referring to the same thing; being inseparable like the two sides of an object; two sides of the same coin - four character idiom

noun:

• glossy silk thread (made from raw silk treated in a solution to dissolve the sericin)

noun:

• haggis (traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep's offal cooked in the animal's stomach)

noun:

• dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms ➜ 玉繭

adverb / ~と adverb:

• squeezing something tightly; sound made by someone (or something) being squeezed - onomatopoeia
• criticizing someone severely; sound made by someone being criticized

noun:

• hug - colloquialism

noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun:

• large number; many

noun:

• majority

noun:

• large boat