noun:

• kangaroo rat (of North America; any rodent of genus Dipodomys)

noun:

• attaching (of seaweed or seed oysters) to nets for the purpose of cultivation

noun:

• Thalassoma (genus of brightly colored fish of the wrasse family Labridae)

noun:

• Atelomycterus; genus of five species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae

noun:

• Ephippus (genus of 2 species of spadefish in the family Ephippidae)

noun:

• band of warriors (often formed from related or dependent families); group of samurai

noun:

• Jataka; collection of texts on the early lives of Buddha (4th century BCE) - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit

noun:

• ranking of web pages by number of times viewed

noun:

• karoshi line (official measure of excessive hours of overtime per month) ➜ 過労死

noun / ~する noun:

• performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
• doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
• put-up job; charade
• sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to rub on; to rub against; to wipe on; to nuzzle against (e.g. dog nosing a person)
• to lay the blame on ［なすりつける］
• to strike (a match) ［すりつける・こすりつける］

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs
• to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject); to raise (an issue); to mention

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift)
• to add to as support; to prop up
• to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.)
• to mimic; to imitate - archaism
• to draw something near to oneself; to approach nearby - archaism

noun:

• being so broad-minded as to accept all sorts of things, both good and evil; being broad-minded enough to be tolerant of people of all shades - four character idiom

expression:

• dancing fool, watching fool; you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; all fools, so let's all dance

noun:

• any horsehair worm of class Gordioidea; gordian worm (of class Gordioidea); hair worm (of class Gordioidea) ➜ 線形虫
• wireworm (click beetle larva) ➜ 米搗虫

noun:

• kindling burned in shrines and temples - archaism
• special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year) - archaism
• kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryo period - archaism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to get dark; to grow dark
• to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to close
• to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought); to be overcome with

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to enclose; to surround; to encircle; to fence; to wall in
• to shelter (e.g. a criminal); to shield; to hide; to protect
• to keep (e.g. a mistress)
• to store (vegetables, fruit, etc.); to preserve
• to protect - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• shortness of breath; panting; puffing
• running out of steam (e.g. economy); losing momentum

noun:

• fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha)
• person of no worth; pisher; scrub - derogatory term

noun:

• mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae) ➜ 銭葵・冬葵
• Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger) ➜ 二葉葵
• hollyhock - hollyhocks (genus Alcea) are part of the mallow family ➜ 立葵

expression / noun:

• thick fog (of suspicion); black veil of secrecy; covered-up crime, unethical act, etc.

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• fluttering (esp. of thick or heavy material) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• piece of dangling cloth, paper, metal, etc. - onomatopoeia

noun:

• glasnost; Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues in the 1980s - From Russian "glasnost'"