expression / godan ~く verb:

• to draw a sword

noun:

• back of a sword ➜ 棟【むね】

noun:

• mouth of a (sword) sheath

noun:

• sword with a stone pommel

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to file; to frost (glass)
• to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)

expression:

• seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose - four character idiom

expression:

• one thing after another; out of the frying pan and into the fire - idiom

expression:

• to get more than one requests; to beg for water and receive wine [literal] - idiom

noun:

• winning hand with at least one terminal tile in each set and no honor tiles - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ ジュンチャンタイヤオチュウ

adverb / pronoun:

• this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that

adverb:

• around; about; round about; roughly; nearly; almost ［かれこれ］

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】

noun / ~する noun:

• rising to action; standing up against; jumping to one's feet

noun:

• shaking; jolting
• shaking up (e.g. one's adversary); flustering (someone)

noun / ~する noun:

• diffidence; losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; being daunted

noun / ~する noun:

• flushing (of one's cheeks); dizziness; rush of blood to the head

noun / ~の noun:

• guiding principle; single-minded policy - idiom
• one's sole talent - idiom

noun:

• single spear ➜ 槍【やり】

noun:

• your home; your residence - honorific language

pronoun:

• you (referring to one's equal; epistolary style) - honorific language

expression:

• off the top of one's head; from thin air
• from memory

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to point (gun at); to hold under one's nose

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exercise one's ingenuity; to come up with an ingenious plan

godan ~す verb:

• to ride past; to miss one's stop (train, bus, etc.)

noun:

• use of seductive techniques to attain one's ends (usu. of women)

noun:

• incisor (esp. in humans) ➜ 門歯

noun / ~する noun:

• grinding one's teeth; bruxism; gnashing of teeth