noun:

• lady's companion (paid female companion of a wealthy or high-ranking woman, esp. in Victorian England) - archaism

noun:

• big bend (esp. in a road)

noun:

• oral character (in psychoanalysis)

expression / adjective:

• (having) bad marks or results (e.g. in school)
• of poor quality or workmanship

noun:

• last volume (in set) ➜ 上巻

noun:

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

noun:

• sugar content (e.g. in degrees Brix)

noun:

• five ranks of nobility (in Japan, 1868-1946) ➜ 五等爵・公爵【こうしゃく】・侯爵【こうしゃく】・伯爵【はくしゃく】・子爵【ししゃく】・男爵【だんしゃく】

noun:

• dead thread (e.g. in forum); inactive thread - slang - IT term

noun:

• niche (in Western architecture)

noun:

• Rigel Kentaurus (star in the constellation Centaurus); Alpha Centauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• (belief in) spiritual power possessed by sisters to protect their brothers (in the Ryukyu Islands)

noun:

• slab (e.g. in metal casting, smelting, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• scattering (e.g. of islands, Go pieces, etc., often in a harmonious balance); dispersal; constellation; irregular spread - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• official letter (esp. in internal company corresp.); formal letter - obscure term

noun:

• Chimaera owstoni (species of deep water cartilaginous ghost shark found in Japan)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• vigorous (in old age); hale and hearty

noun:

• Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus, rare species of fresh water requiem shark that dwells in the rivers of India)

noun:

• Gaultheria adenothrix (alpine shrublet in the Ericaceae family)

expression / noun:

• Servant of God (in Christianity)

noun:

• second note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp) (in China) ➜ 十二律・断吟
• twelfth lunar month

noun:

• stream (in a Japanese garden); narrow stream flowing through a traditional garden (esp. in a Heian period villa) ➜ 寝殿造り
• watering (potted plants, bonsai, etc.)

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

expression / ichidan verb:

• to advance to the next stage (e.g. in a tournament)

noun:

• urinary sediment (e.g. in urinalysis) - Medicine term