adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• half-year (sometimes esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment) ➜ 一季
• half of a season

noun:

• opening (of a bottle); broaching
• beginning; opening; commencement (e.g. of sales); first sale

noun:

• narrow escape from the jaws of death - four character idiom
• there being barely a chance of escaping death

noun:

• superficial learning; book learning; merely knowing the meanings of a large number of individual words - four character idiom

noun:

• writing some characters (esp. complex kanji) of a compound as kana instead of kanji - e.g. しょう油, 宝くじ

noun:

• deer raised upon the grounds of a shrine (who serve as messengers of the gods)

noun:

• engine compartment (of a vehicle)
• engine room (e.g. of ship)

noun:

• plum blossom design; silk fabric with a plum blossom design - obscure term

noun:

• green-sand casting; casting metal with a green-sand mould

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• someone who is overly concerned with status. Can be used enviously with reference to someone of real accomplishment - Kansai dialect

~と adverb / adverb:

• isolated; standing alone - ぽっつり is emphatic - onomatopoeia
• falling in drops (e.g. rain) - onomatopoeia
• saying a single word; muttering just a few words - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• reception of a decoration; reception of an order ➜ 授章

noun:

• way of reciting; way of telling a story

noun:

• castle of a daimyo; castle of feudal lord

noun:

• end of a period; end of the world

noun:

• report of death; notification of a death

noun:

• way of taking (a pill); way of drinking

noun:

• end of a line (of writing); line break

suffix:

• roofing; roofed with; thatching; thatched with; shingling; shingled with

expression:

• once over the borders one may do anything; what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas; shame (committed while) on a journey can be scratched away [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying (on one's person); taking with one

noun:

• training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one's mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video); mental dry run - From English "image training"

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• fondly; admiringly; with fascination; with adoration; with enchantment

noun:

• foot - esp. 足
• leg - esp. 脚,肢
• gait
• pace
• bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji - usu. 脚
• means of transportation ［足］
• money; coin - archaism ➜ お足

noun:

• spouting (e.g. of a whale, blowhole, etc.); blowing water - usu. 潮噴き ➜ 潮を吹く【しおをふく】
• Mactra veneriformis (species of trough shell) ➜ 潮吹貝
• female ejaculation; squirting - usu. 潮吹き - colloquialism - vulgar ➜ 潮を吹く【しおをふく】