noun / ~する noun:

• payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment ➜ 前払い
• payment on delivery (e.g. business-reply mail, collect phone calls) ➜ 着払い【ちゃくばらい】

noun:

• forerunner

adverb / ~と adverb:

• lightly (floating); buoyantly - onomatopoeia
• puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.); blowing (a flute, whistle) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Potsdam Orders (commands made after the Japanese surrender based on the demands of the Potsdam Declaration) ➜ ポツダム宣言

noun:

• days on which Ten'ichijin is in heaven (the 30th to the 45th days of the sexagenary cycle) ➜ 天一神・癸巳・戊申

noun:

• book cover; outer wrapper for a book (put on by a bookseller before being handed to a customer) ➜ ブックカバー

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to set a high value on
• to take good care of; to look after

noun:

• front facing display (e.g. books displayed on a shelf with the cover facing out); forward facing display ➜ 平積み【ひらづみ】・面出し【めんだし】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fix one's eyes on; to stare intently at; to study carefully (with the eyes)

expression:

• the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; other people's flowers are redder [literal] - proverb

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ 凡そ【およそ】
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

godan ~つ verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to wait ［待つ］
• to await; to look forward to; to anticipate
• to depend on; to need - usu. in negative form

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be lured; to be attracted; to get hooked (on)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to illuminate; to shine a light on; to light up

counter:

• counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); a noun read using its on-yomi

noun:

• penis - children's language ➜ おちんちん・ちんぼ

adverb / ~と adverb:

• chink; jingle; tinkle; whistle (kettle) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• begging (animal)

noun:

• jealousy
• black porgy juvenile ➜ クロダイ
• flirting; fondling ➜ ちんちんかもかも
• children's game in which one hops on one foot ➜ ちんちんもがもが

noun:

• totally useless (fruitless) effort; wasting time on an impossible task (like trying to scoop up a reflected moon from the bottom of the sea) - four character idiom

noun:

• primitive shrine (originally a swath of sacred land surrounded by evergreens; later a decorated sakaki branch on an eight-legged table) - archaism

noun:

• new single (by a recording artist)
• person of marriageable age who remains single (e.g. to focus on their career) - From English

noun:

• queue jumping; breaking into a line; muscling in on; wedging oneself in; interruption; sharing a theater box (theatre)
• interrupt - IT term

noun:

• meeting place; seats for the public
• restaurant dinner tray; set of dishes served on an individual tray for entertaining guests; banquet - abbreviation ➜ 会席料理

noun:

• the principle of not resuming debate on an item in the same Diet session in which it has been voted down

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to live on air
• to derive nourishment from an elemental portion of mist or fog (the goal of a mountain ascetic) ➜ 仙人

noun:

• bad bacteria (usu. intestinal bacteria that have an adverse affect on human health - E. choli, C. welchii, etc.); pathogenic bacteria; harmful bacteria

expression:

• search thoroughly for something lost before you suspect someone of stealing it; be on sure ground before you accuse somebody - proverb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to freeze; to congeal
• to concentrate one's attention on; to devote oneself to something; to ponder; to meditate