noun:

• nematomorph; horsehair worm; gordian worm; hair worm (any of the parasitic nematode-like worms of phylum Nematomorpha)

expression:

• variant of "de arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period ➜ ありんす

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stop; to turn off - esp. 止める, 停める
• to park - esp. 止める, 停める
• to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to hold back (tears); to hold (one's breath); to relieve (pain) - esp. 止める, 停める
• to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade; to forbid; to prohibit
• to notice; to be aware of; to concentrate on; to pay attention to; to remember; to bear in mind ➜ 目を留める・気に留める
• to fix (in place); to fasten; to tack; to pin; to nail; to button; to staple - esp. 留める
• to detain; to keep in custody - esp. 留める

noun:

• mediation; good offices; intervention; mediator; middleman
• influential person; person of influence
• eloquence; eloquent person - archaism
• way of speaking - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom

noun:

• cold wind blowing at Lake Biwa around the 24th day of the second month of the lunisolar calendar ➜ 法華八講

noun / ~の noun:

• settlement of accounts; closing accounts; financial results; reporting (of accounts)

noun:

• guest of honour; guest of honor; privileged guest; visitor

noun:

• height of summer; high summer; hottest part of the summer

noun:

• record of war; war chronicle; commentaries of war; military history

noun:

• seller; selling side ➜ 買い方
• method of selling; art of selling ➜ 買い方

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to get hold of; to take possession of; to seize

noun:

• methods of writing; rules of good writing; writing style guide - four character idiom

noun:

• the kalpa of existence (the second aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• the kalpa of destruction (the third aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• data unavailability; lack of data; shortage of data - IT term

noun:

• armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
• kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• Hexanchidae; family with four species and three genera of cow sharks characterized by either one or two additional pairs of gill slits

noun:

• time - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "samaya"
• meeting; coming together - Buddhism term
• equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures
• Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

noun:

• swallowing in one gulp; downing; mouthful; bite
• sipping; sip
• thinking nothing of one's opponent; making easy prey of someone

noun:

• kingdom - Biology term
• erathem (rock layer corresponding to the era in which it was deposited) - Geology term
• partition of land

suffix:

• the world of (some category)

noun:

• any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)

noun:

• Asplenium antiquum (species of spleenwort) ➜ 大谷渡
• Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant) ➜ 隠れ蓑
• leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc. ➜ 三角柏

noun:

• type of newspaper from the Meiji era (characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language) ➜ 小新聞
• major newspaper