noun:

• dripping; drop; trickle
• water trickling from moss, rocks, or cliffs in the summer

noun:

• national of a third country
• foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan - sensitive

noun:

• community life; local life; regional life
• integration in the community; living in the local community (social work)

noun / ~の noun:

• undesirable friend; bad company; bad companion; bad influence ➜ 良友
• partner in crime (i.e. good friend); close friend; buddy

noun:

• partitioned lidded wooden lunchbox
• food served in such a box

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to face each other; to be opposite one another
• to be in opposition; to conflict

noun:

• naphtha
• North American Free Trade Agreement; NAFTA

noun:

• keeper of imperial archives
• worker skilled in the brewing of sake or soy sauce

noun:

• var. of knot often used to tie mizu-hiki ➜ 鮑結び
• woman's hairstyle, braided in this fashion

ichidan verb:

• to look afar
• to look at something while absorbed in reverie; to look at something while absorbed in one's thoughts

noun:

• short roughly woven fence - usu. not 間狭 - archaism
• divider between boxes (i.e. for box seats) in a theatre, etc.

noun:

• partition board; plank used as a partition
• board used in a ship to prevent the cargo from moving around

noun:

• progressive form - Linguistics term
• in progress (e.g. of a project)

noun:

• Lorelei (Loreley); Rhine maiden who lured sailors to their doom
• rock in the Rhine

noun / ~する noun:

• going along with something; following the crowd
• treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner

noun:

• blind snake (esp. the Brahminy blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus); worm snake

expression:

• fools rush in - abbreviation ➜ 盲蛇に怖じず

noun:

• cricket (Gryllidae spp.)
• any insect that chirps in autumn - archaism

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

noun:

• cold water
• water in midwinter

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to knock back; to strike back
• to beat in revenge

noun:

• ridges on a blade (sword, knife, etc.)
• ridged pattern in building

noun:

• quadruple time; four-four time; common time - Music term
• the four instruments in the accompanying orchestra in noh, etc. (flute, floor drum, small hand drum, large hand drum) - Music term ➜ 囃子【はやし】・笛【ふえ】・大鼓【おおつづみ】・小鼓【こつづみ】・太鼓【たいこ】

noun:

• homosexual prostitute who sold favors at banquets, etc. (late Edo) - archaism ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】
• actor-in-training in kabuki - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• payment for another; payment by proxy
• paying in kind; paying with a substitute

noun:

• undeveloped woodland near populated area
• settlement pattern of living in upland valleys and cultivating lower slopes