expression:

• when about to go back
• on the way back; on the way home

expression:

• time to pay the piper; time to pay the land tax (in kind) [literal]

noun:

• the hole (between third and short); area between the third baseman and shortstop - Baseball term

noun:

• falling (down); tumbling (down); falling to the ground
• failure; failing
• renouncing Christianity and converting to Buddhism (during the Edo period); apostasy
• batter (construction technique)

noun:

• Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945) ➜ 十五年戦争・太平洋戦争

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to drive black hogs in the dark; to be unable to distinguish one thing from another; to come out from the darkness with a cow [literal] - idiom

noun:

• head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; landlord; landlady; master (of a servant) - abbreviation
• entertaining someone as one's guest - also written as 饗 - archaism ➜ 饗設け

expression:

• intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself; going for wool and coming home shorn; the biter bit; the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy [literal] - idiom

noun:

• foot of a mountain; base of a mountain ➜ 山下【さんか】
• mine; colliery - esp. 山元
• owner of a mountain; operator of a mine - esp. 山元

noun:

• reed warbler (esp. the great reed warbler, but also the black-browed reed warbler) - obscure term ➜ 葦切

noun:

• face (of a wall of coal or ore, etc.); working face (of a mine)

noun:

• collection of treasures; collection of luck-bringing items
• pattern with drawings of several lucky items

noun:

• no wait state memory (memory the CPU can access without requiring wait states) - abbreviation - IT term
• instant (e.g. for display speed of text in computer games) - From English "no wait"

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to run out of; to be short of; to be out of stock
• to be out of (e.g. breath); to lose (one's patience, concentration, etc.)

noun:

• leader of a female gang; leader of a group of delinquent girls

noun / ~する noun:

• consecration (of a person or thing, in Catholicism); sanctification; prayer of sanctification; ritual of consecration

interjection:

• that is so; that is right; it looks to me; I am of the impression

expression:

• people say that (after plain verb, adj); it is said that; I hear that

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree [literal] - from Mencius - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• using a new brush for the first time
• doing something for the first time
• man losing his virginity (esp. to an older woman)

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun:

• heaven and earth; the universe; nature; top and bottom; realm; sphere; world
• top and bottom ［てんち］
• gods of heaven and earth ［あめつち］

noun:

• one face; one surface
• the whole surface
• one aspect; one side

noun / adverbial noun:

• (on) the other hand
• one broad, flat object
• front page (e.g. newspaper)

noun:

• lack of harmony; lack of balance; lack of coordination; malfunction
• ataxia - Medicine term

noun:

• source of fire; sign of fire
• warmth of fire; heat

noun:

• dead of night; shades of night; black of night