~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to lie down (in bed); to take to one's bed - obscure term

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to feign innocence; to feign ignorance - from wiping one's mouth and feigning innocence after sneaking a bite of food - idiom
• to wipe one's mouth

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to fire someone; to discharge someone
• to divorce one's wife

~す verb (precursor to modern する) / intransitive verb:

• to lie down (in bed); to take to one's bed - archaism ➜ 臥する

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to work hard; to sweat
• to wash off one's sweat

noun:

• babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day
• normal gestation time (i.e. 9 months)

noun:

• minute (unit of time)
• fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)

noun:

• beckoning cat; figure of a cat with one paw raised (usu. white porcelain)

expression / adjective:

• extremely busy; so busy one would even welcome the help of a cat [literal] - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to entrust (a person) with power of attorney (to do something for one)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to allow a less skilled person to practice with one (esp. in sumo) ➜ 胸を借りる

noun:

• triptan (any one of a family of drugs used to treat severe headaches)

noun:

• employer from whom one has received a unofficial offer of employment; prospective employer

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

expression:

• what more can one say?; utterly at a loss for words (because of disbelief or disgust)

noun:

• demanding again what one has already obtained; coaxing out of someone for a second time - obscure term ➜ 強請り

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to perform anal sex; to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise - colloquialism - vulgar ➜ お釜を掘る
• to crash one's car into the back of another

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to shut one's eyes
• to ignore; to pretend not to know
• to die

noun:

• townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse
• tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family

expression:

• rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame [literal] - proverb ➜ 据え膳【すえぜん】

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• absence; being away from home

noun / ~する noun:

• house-sitting; house-sitter

noun:

• being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting - usu. as お留守になる

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• madly in love; completely charmed (by); head over heels (for)

adverb:

• from the heart; entirely; completely

noun:

• bottom of one's heart - archaism

expression:

• zip it (when used to others); I'll shut up (when used by oneself); button (one's) lips - colloquialism ➜ チャック

noun:

• thing that reminds one of a particular season
• poem about natural scenery; poem about a particular season