noun:

• aged paste; microbially fermented weak adhesive for restoration of Japanese works of art on paper

noun:

• parazoan (member of an ancestral subkingdom of animals whose only surviving members are the sponges)

noun:

• Lord (title of respect for nobility, etc.) - archaism - honorific language
• Sukune (third highest of the eight hereditary titles) ➜ 八色の姓

noun:

• thick patch of mixed weeds
• false cleavers (species of bedstraw, Galium spurium var. echinospermon)

noun:

• Ginglymostomatidae; family of carpet shark species containing three monotypic genera of nurse sharks

noun:

• Mitsukurina (genus of only living species of goblin shark in the family Mitsukurinidae)

noun:

• Pseudocarcharias (sole genus of the family Pseudocarchariidae containing one species of crocodile shark)

noun:

• Australian swellshark (Cephaloscyllium laticeps, species of catshark which inhabits the continental shelf of southern Australia)

noun:

• festival held on January 10 in honor of Ebisu, the god of fishing and commerce ➜ 恵比寿【えびす】

~の noun / noun:

• full of holes (e.g. argument); vulnerable to any kind of attack (or criticism, etc.)

noun:

• byungjin line; North Korean policy of simultaneous development of its economy and nuclear weapons program

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stop (moving); to come to a stop
• to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to cease; to be stopped; to be suspended
• to alight; to perch on

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to build a market for; to promote (a product); to sell; to become well known
• to promote oneself; to sell oneself
• to sell heavily

expression:

• if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; if the water is kind to fish, the fish will be friendly toward water too [literal]; mutual back-scratching - idiom ➜ 魚心あれば水心

expression / ichidan verb:

• to infuriate one's superior; to incur the anger of one's boss; to bring (a superior's) wrath down upon one
• to incur the Imperial wrath; to offend the Emperor - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• joining; joint
• intermediation; acting as an intermediary

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• relaying; taking over

noun:

• middle relief pitcher; middle reliever - abbreviation - Baseball term ➜ 中継ぎ投手
• pole-shaped item with a join in the middle
• tea container with a lid that is the same size as the body

noun:

• Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝【さんぼう】
• dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis) - usually written using kana alone
• roller (any bird of family Coraciidae) - usually written using kana alone
• Eurasian scops owl (Otus scops) ➜ 声の仏法僧

noun:

• robe worn by military officials with a round collar, unstitched open sides, and no wrapped fabric along the bottom ➜ 闕腋の袍
• small opening in the side of traditional Japanese clothing (where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit); clothing with such an opening (usu. worn by women or children) ➜ 八つ口

noun:

• number of people
• denominate number
• the number at the start of phrases referring to well known 'somethings', equiv. to 'seven' in "the seven wonders of the world" ➜ 三筆・四天王

noun:

• day of the boar in the tenth month ➜ 亥の子
• mochi eaten on the day of the boar (esp. at the time of the boar)

noun:

• bodily injury caused by negligence in the conduct of business; accidental infliction of injury in the conduct of business - Law term

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to be suspicious of; to be doubtful of; to be dubious of

noun:

• declaration of brain death; determination of brain death; diagnosis of brain death

noun:

• cession of an obligation; assignment of an obligation; transfer of an obligation - Law term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to lure out of; to decoy out of
• to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.)
• to abduct; to entice out of - archaism