noun:

• wood alcohol; the spirit of a tree

adjectival noun:

• meaningful; suggestive; seeming to be with a history; seeming to be with circumstances that are hard to explain - archaism

noun:

• dakuten; diacritic kana mark that turns an unvoiced consonant into a voiced consonant

expression:

• the former and the latter; A and B

noun / ~する noun:

• cleaning up or covering for another; bearing the consequences of someone else's error; paying a debt for someone; wiping another's buttocks [literal]

expression:

• too many cooks spoil the broth; too many captains will steer the ship up a mountain [literal] - proverb

noun:

• mate's rate; preferential rate of payment offered to a friend

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun:

• Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter) - colloquialism ➜ 係う【かかずらう】
• to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality)
• to take part (in some work); to hang about; to bother (someone)

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to give an address (before a large number of people); to give a forceful speech

expression:

• piece of cake; a walk in the park

noun:

• imperial prince's family; family of a prince of royal blood ➜ 親王

expression / noun:

• fight from which neither part benefits (but a third part does); a fight between the snipe and the clam (ends in the fisherman's profit) [literal] - idiom ➜ 漁夫の利

noun:

• store that has been gone out of business; household that lives without carrying on a business

noun:

• winter thunder; thunderstorm accompanying a cold front

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to poison to death; to kill by a prescription error

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to sigh; to breathe a sigh

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• specially appointed; appointed temporarily for a specific task

noun / ~する noun:

• long bath; staying in the bath for a long time ➜ 長湯

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

noun:

• historic district; historic center of a town

noun:

• land received in compensation for one's service; land given by a lord to a vassal for his service - archaism

noun:

• land received in compensation for one's service; land given by a lord to a vassal for his service ➜ 恩地

noun:

• tenmoku; ceramics (esp. tea bowls) with a dark glaze that resembles oil spotting
• tenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin - abbreviation ➜ 天目茶碗