noun:

• idol (esp. in the philosophy of Francis Bacon: idols of the tribe, cave, market, and theater) - From Latin "idola"

noun:

• triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits - Mahjong term

noun:

• ordinary verse of a renga (i.e. not the first three verses or the last verse)

noun / ~する noun:

• motivating the troops on the battlefield with war drums and war cries - obscure term
• making an uproar - obscure term

noun:

• poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry

noun:

• prisoner; captive; prisoner of war
• Emishi allied with the Japanese during the Nara and Heian periods ➜ えみし

noun:

• peasants chosen to carry the payment of a tax (in kind) to the capital (ritsuryo system) - archaism

noun:

• Panjandrum; The Great Panjandrum (rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during WW2)

noun:

• duff (golf); sclaff; hitting the ground behind the ball during a stroke - Sports term
• duff (e.g. plum) - Food term

noun:

• back and front; inside and outside; both sides
• inside out (e.g. clothing)
• double-dealing; two faces (c.f. two-faced) ➜ 表裏
• outward appearance and actual condition; inner workings

noun:

• telephone appointment; arranging meetings and appointments in advance by phone - abbreviation
• cold-calling to get potential customers to agree to meet a salesman; carrying out market surveys by phone

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to draw (water); to scoop up; to dip up; to pump out
• to understand (someone's feelings, etc.); to grasp; to surmise; to take into consideration

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be faded; to be hazy; to be blurred; to be out of focus

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to vomit; to throw up; to spit up
• to emit; to send forth; to breathe out
• to give (an opinion); to make (a comment); to express; to tell
• to confess

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be truant; to play hooky; to skip school; to skip out; to be idle; to sabotage by slowness - from サボタージュ ➜ サボタージュ

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to burst into tears; to burst out crying; to begin to cry; to be moved to tears

particle:

• from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since
• from (originator); by
• because; since - follows verbs, adjectives
• out of (constituent, part)
• through (e.g. window, vestibule)
• after; since - following the te-form of a verb

noun:

• getting what one wants by complaining or grumbling; profiting by holding out or taking a hard line; getting more by raising a ruckus - colloquialism

noun:

• looking up and down, from heaven to earth (having nothing to be ashamed of); swearing by Heaven and Earth (having done nothing to be ashamed of) - four character idiom

noun:

• lipstick that actors put on their earlobes, cheeks and corners of eyes
• lipstick discreetly put on the earlobes or the corners of the eyes (by women)

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "gu"; "ga" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "zu"; "za" column or row of the kana syllabary

noun:

• classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "dzu"; "da" column or row of the kana syllabary