noun / ~する noun:

• squeeze (play) - Baseball term
• (in scuba diving) discomfort or pain caused by increasing water pressure compressing body air spaces and pushing body tissue inward

noun / ~する noun:

• devoting oneself to; concentrating on; commitment; admiration; adoration
• tipping over and collapsing - orig. meaning - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• being evenly matched; being equal with; being on a par with; being well contested

noun:

• eldest and second eldest brother; older and younger brother - orig. meaning - archaism

noun:

• technical college - abbreviation ➜ 高等専門学校
• higher schools and colleges

noun:

• pitcher; water jug; watering can
• container of fresh water for replenishing the kettle and rinsing bowls (tea ceremony) - usu. not 水差し

noun / ~する noun:

• being in dire distress; being hard put to it - four character idiom
• the four and eight kinds of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦・八苦

noun:

• imperial palace
• festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress - abbreviation ➜ 内裏雛

noun / adjectival noun:

• regret

noun:

• flesh, blood vessels and fat from around chicken heart, usu. served as yakitori

noun:

• generosity; magnanimity; tolerance
• length and capacity; measures

noun:

• straw cutter; short mane
• pressing and cutting

noun:

• trees with entwined branches
• intimate male and female relationship

noun:

• fame; glory; reputation
• English name of plants and animals

noun:

• large hole
• great deficit; heavy losses
• big and unexpected winnings; a killing (e.g. on a race)
• dark horse (horse racing)

noun / ~する noun:

• rivalry; competition; antagonism; struggle for supremacy
• rising and falling (of a bird) ［けっこう］

noun:

• being overheard; being leaked (e.g. secrets)
• going in one ear and out the other

adjectival noun / noun:

• malicious; spiteful; vicious; wicked; devious; underhanded; sly
• shady and damp

noun:

• bayonet
• guns and swords

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

noun:

• itinerant priest; wandering monk; mendicant
• clouds and water

noun:

• outlaw
• low and away (pitch) - Baseball term - From English "out low"

noun:

• German silver; nickel silver
• silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods

godan ~ぐ verb:

• to be mutually bitter; to argue together; to quarrel
• to resent and bemoan

noun:

• female cook; kitchenmaid
• woman who served both as a waitress and a prostitute in Osaka teahouses - archaism

noun:

• bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism) - Buddhism term
• striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger - esp. しっぺ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• eldest child; oldest child; first-born child
• child who carries on the family name
• pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces - archaism ➜ 律令制・総領【すべおさ】
• head of a warrior clan (Kamakura period) - archaism