noun:

• many monsters, spirits, etc. forming a line and walking through the night - four character idiom
• veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about presenting a most scandalous sight

noun / suffix noun:

• lattice - Mathematics term

noun / suffix noun / counter:

• counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish)
• handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)

noun:

• (large number of people, esp. students) singing and dancing around a bonfire at night - From English "fire storm"

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

noun:

• Tokyo near-field earthquake; large-scale earthquake expected to directly hit the Kanto area sometime in the future; also refers to the 1855 and 1894 Edo/Tokyo earthquakes

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

noun:

• large cut (e.g. of meat) ［大切り・大切］
• last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told - humble language
• to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to visit - humble language
• to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.) - from 御機嫌を伺う

noun:

• large jewel; string of jewels - archaism
• Yasakani no Magatama (the grand jewel or string of jewels; one of the three Imperial regalia) ➜ 勾玉・三種の神器

noun / ~する noun:

• running alone; running solo
• having a large lead (over the others); being far ahead (of everyone else)
• having one's own way; ignoring others' opinions and acting as one wishes; arbitrary action

noun / ~の noun:

• pasturing; letting (an animal) run loose
• letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked; leaving uncontrolled; leaving at large (e.g. a criminal)

noun:

• smith's assistant; assistant who hammers in response to a master smith's signal
• large hammer (used by a smith's assistant)

noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to draw (a thread); to let out (e.g. a rope)
• to turn out in large numbers; to flock; to sally forth
• to send out; to dispatch
• to lunge; to unleash

counter:

• counter for ships (large boats)
• counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen)
• counter for fish, birds, arrows, etc.

noun / ~の noun:

• artificial product; man-made product; imitation; fake; sham
• fiction

noun:

• decoration (e.g. for a festival)
• theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, etc.)
• crop

noun:

• ceremony performed by a sorcerer to protect a noble setting out on a trip
• walking in large steps
• walking with a disabled leg; someone with a disabled leg

noun:

• food set out on a stand; gift placed on a stand
• food brought on a large stand to a brothel by a red-light district caterer - archaism

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• thundering; purring; grumbling (e.g. stomach) - onomatopoeia
• something large and heavy starting to roll - onomatopoeia
• scattered about; common; commonplace; all over - onomatopoeia
• idleness; idling about - onomatopoeia
• having a foreign substance in (e.g. one's eye or stomach) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• thunder - children's language - onomatopoeia

noun:

• blue dragon ➜ 青竜
• Azure Dragon (god said to rule over the eastern heavens) ➜ 青竜
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the eastern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿
• large horse with a bluish-leaden coat
• shape of an old pine tree

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to fan (oneself, flames, etc.)
• to flap (in the wind)
• to instigate; to stir up; to incite; to agitate
• to drive up prices (by buying a large amount of something)
• to take a photo from a low angle ➜ 煽り【あおり】
• to tailgate ➜ 煽り【あおり】

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; to let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun / adverbial noun:

• a lot; lots; plenty; many; a large number; much; a great deal; a good deal
• enough; sufficient

suffix noun:

• enough; too many; too much - after a noun; usu. read as だくさん ➜ 沢山【だくさん】

noun:

• single crime that naturally consists of a number of incidences and is charged as only one count (e.g. habitual gambling)
• crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection) ➜ 集団犯罪