noun:

• dog-ear (of a book)
• dog's ear

noun:

• hostess bar recruiters, etc. dressed in black suits - colloquialism
• young delinquents wearing black at Aomori's Nebuta festival - colloquialism ➜ ねぶた

noun / ~する noun:

• humbly presenting; respecfully presenting

expression:

• with the author's compliments - when giving a book, etc.

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to ripen
• to give one's everything; to make one's best effort - idiom ➜ 身が入る

noun / ~する noun:

• relieving oneself; going to the toilet
• finishing one's business ➜ 用弁

noun:

• roundabout explanation
• one's words; one's speaking - humble language

expression / adjective:

• having a headache
• racking one's brains; troubling over something ➜ 頭の痛い

noun:

• dishonor that persists after death ➜ 生き恥
• shame at the moment of one's death

noun:

• hanger-on; follower; flunky; sycophant
• purse strapped round one's waist

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to break off; to knock off
• to create a false eye by sacrificing a stone (in go)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to droop (e.g. ears of grain)
• to bow one's head; to hang one's head

noun:

• functioning cuff buttons on a jacket (i.e. those that can be buttoned and unbuttoned) ➜ 本切羽
• surgeon's cuffs

noun / ~する noun:

• involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism
• grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation

noun / ~の noun:

• under the wing (esp. of an aircraft)
• under one's wing; under one's control

noun:

• rock fight; stone-throwing fight ➜ 石合戦
• custom by which neighbours or friends threw rocks inside a couple's house on their wedding night

expression / noun:

• feminine handwriting
• woman's hand

noun:

• grapple; scuffle; fight
• defeating one's enemy on the battlefield

noun:

• Dominica; Commonwealth of Dominica
• the Lord's Day (in Christianity); Sunday - From Latin "dominica"

expression / noun:

• person of high standing facing no opposition and with a warped view of reality
• The Emperor's New Clothes (tale by Hans Christian Andersen) - orig. meaning

noun:

• bedding; bed - archaism ➜ 枕席

noun / ~する noun:

• to sleep together in the same bed - archaism
• to sleep together using each other's bodies as pillow - archaism
• to sleep together using books as a pillow - archaism

noun:

• old maid (card game)
• living without one's mother-in-law - slang

noun:

• double-width cloth
• woman's underskirt ➜ 腰巻き

noun:

• a square sun (i.e. approx 9sq. cm.) ➜ 寸
• one's mind; space occupied by one's heart

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to get up (e.g. from bed)
• to make one's way in the world; to achieve in life

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion