noun / ~する noun:

• leaving temporarily; stepping out; going away for a while

noun:

• camera focusing error (on a space between two objects) ➜ 抜く【ぬく】

noun:

• card to pick up (in card games); card that is picked up by players instead of read (in karuta); card printed with the second half of a poem (in karuta) ➜ 読み札

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir ➜ 驚かす

noun:

• double-dealer; timeserver; moving back and forth between two sides in a conflict - four character idiom

noun:

• outerrise; outer rise; region seaward of a deep-sea trench ➜ アウターライズ地震【アウターライズじしん】

adverb:

• involuntarily; reluctantly; against one's inclination; against one's will; as a matter of unpleasant necessity; despite oneself

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; judge a man by living with him, and try a horse by riding him [literal] - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; to set a sparrow net in front of the gate [literal] - idiom ➜ 門前雀羅【もんぜんじゃくら】

noun:

• go-on; Wu reading; on reading of a kanji based on 5th and 6th century Chinese ➜ 漢音【かんおん】・唐音【とうおん】・呉【ご】

expression:

• you wish!; that's not going to happen; not a chance - pun on そうは行かぬ - humorous term

noun:

• shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to forget to mention; to leave unspoken; to let slip a secret

noun:

• stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task - four character idiom

~の noun:

• signed; sealed; having a signature or seal - Law term

~の noun:

• largish; biggish; a little bit larger

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to try and reach above one's station and fail; to try and accomplish something beyond one's abilities and fail; a monkey tries to catch the moon (and drowns) [literal] - idiom ➜ 猿猴捉月

noun:

• meddling; interference; making a pass at someone ➜ ちょっかいを出す
• extending a paw to drag something closer
• hand; arm; wrist - derogatory term - archaism
• disfigured arm; disfigured hand - archaism

noun:

• aforementioned (statement); preceding; at right - primarily used in vertical writing

noun:

• actor; actress; someone who works at a theater

ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:

• to blunder; to fail; to make a mistake ➜ 仕損じる

noun:

• regional trade; local trade; exchange within a region

expression:

• slow but steady wins the race; constant effort will result in success; constant dripping wears away a stone [literal] - proverb

expression:

• person who swaggers about under borrowed authority; small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority; a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger [literal] - idiom

pronoun:

• you; you bastard; you son of a bitch - sensitive - derogatory term
• you - archaism - polite language

noun:

• someone who has come to say farewell; those who have come to say farewell; people at a send-off