noun:

• thawing of the ground in spring - archaism

noun:

• lingering heat (in autumn)
• remaining flame

noun:

• four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara) - Buddhism term

noun:

• stalks of butterbur boiled in soy sauce

noun:

• punctuality (in reference to public transport); reliability

adverb:

• midway; halfway through; in the course of

noun:

• work hakama for use in the snow ➜ 山袴

noun:

• thinner futon (in contact with the skin)

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• real; actual; de facto; in fact

noun:

• dialectic demonstration; display of skill in explanation

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to express in a roundabout way

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• radiatio; radial structure; radiation (in anatomy, etc.)

noun:

• fetish character (in Marx's commodity fetishism)

expression / noun:

• cloud floating in a spring sky

noun:

• lower-middle (e.g. in class rank)

noun:

• "bird-in-the-cage" children's game

noun:

• beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin ➜ どて焼き【どてやき】

noun:

• professional negligence resulting in injury or death

expression:

• in one ear and out the other

noun:

• number of syllabic sounds in a language

~と adverb / adverb:

• banging around (e.g. in a fight) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• charcoal burned in an earthen kiln - obscure term ➜ 土窯【どがま】

noun:

• indigo blue make-up used in Kabuki

noun:

• two people riding in a palanquin together - archaism

noun / suffix noun:

• fish pickled in rice-bran paste (esp. mackerel)