noun:

• three-pronged vajra flung by Kukai on his return from China to determine the Holy Land of Esoteric Buddism - Buddhism term

noun:

• night where one waits for someone who is supposed to come - archaism
• night of the 14th day of the eight month of the lunar calendar - archaism

~の noun / adverb / noun:

• from time immemorial; ancient; time-honoured; time-honored

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to memorize; to memorise; to recite from memory

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to memorize; to memorise; to recite from memory ➜ 諳んじる【そらんじる】

noun:

• picking (esp. distributor picking up merchandise from a storage facility)
• lock picking

noun / ~する noun:

• getting oil; extraction of oil (e.g. from seeds); drilling for oil

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to shake (from fear, cold, excitement, etc.); to shudder; to tremble ➜ 戦慄く【わななく】

noun:

• surf fishing; rock fishing; fishing from rocks by the shore

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to succeed (someone); to take over from; to pick up the torch

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to tie up; to tie together; to bind; to bundle; to fasten
• to hang (oneself) - also written as 縊る ➜ 首を括る
• to summarize; to put (it all) together; to consolidate
• to estimate; to expect ➜ 高を括る
• to tie-dye ➜ 括り染め
• to detain; to check; to restrain - archaism

noun:

• shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors) ➜ 噴水効果

noun:

• vine; bine; tendril; runner
• bow; temple arm; sidepiece; lug arm; earpiece; part of a pair of glasses that goes over the ear
• connections; contacts; influence; financial supporter

noun:

• gold wheel (highest of the three layered wheels that support the earth above the primordial void) - Buddhism term
• gold wheel-turning sage king - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 金輪王

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - usu. at sentence-end
• like; similar to ➜ ような
• in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that ➜ ように
• indicates hope, wish, request or mild command - as ように at sentence-end

noun:

• honeycomb toffee; sponge toffee; foam candy from heated brown sugar mixed with baking soda - From Portuguese "caramelo"

noun:

• ginjō sake; high-quality sake brewed by low temperature fermentation from white rice milled to 60%

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become bald from the forehead; to recede (of one's hairline)

noun:

• feelings of coolness (e.g. from wearing light clothing in hot weather); cool feeling; cool impression

noun:

• glossy silk thread (made from raw silk treated in a solution to dissolve the sericin)

noun:

• dripping liquid (soup, sauce, etc.) from the tips of one's chopsticks (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma, species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark from the Western Pacific)

noun:

• frizz; short tufts springing up from hair surface here and there; kink; idiot hair

noun:

• haggis (traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep's offal cooked in the animal's stomach)

noun:

• threeblotched rabbitfish (Siganus trispilos, species of rabbitfish from the eastern Indian Ocean)