expression:

• following (a person to a place)

godan ~す verb:

• to beat (a drum)
• to pluck up courage

noun:

• upstage right (on a noh stage)

noun:

• tolerability (e.g. of a drug dose)

noun:

• blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

noun:

• Edison effect (thermionic emission from a heated metal or semiconductor)

noun / ~する noun:

• depositing blood (in a blood bank)

noun / ~する noun:

• cutting horizontally into the torso (with a sword)

noun:

• writer (of a poem); composer (of a poem) ➜ 読み手

noun:

• tongs (esp. for incense or for use in a Buddhist temple)

noun / ~する noun:

• manifestation (of a celestial being)

noun:

• full signal strength (on a cellphone); good cellphone reception; three bars [literal] - from バリバリ三本 - colloquialism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to dunk (e.g. food in a drink)

noun:

• Islamic state (state where shari'a law is enforced); Islamic country

noun:

• skipping (e.g. on a CD); jumping

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• rocking from side to side (of a boat)

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• (of a woman) slender and smartly shaped

noun:

• girl-in-training (e.g. a geisha-in-training or a girl who performs miscellaneous tasks in a brothel) - archaism
• brat; scamp; rascal; jackanapes - archaism - derogatory term ➜ 小童【こわっぱ】
• disciple; apprentice - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• dasabhumi (forty-first to fiftieth stages in the development of a bodhisattva) - Buddhism term

noun:

• kanji for "takara" (impressed on the obverse of a coin) ➜ 宝

noun / ~の noun:

• obtuse (of the shape of a leaf); rounded ➜ 鋭頭

noun:

• height (of a building, etc.) - Architecture term
• height (of a person, thing, etc.) - usually written using kana alone

~する verb (spec.) / transitive:

• to span (e.g. a stream with a bridge)

noun:

• naked bud (of a plant); bud unprotected by bud scales

noun:

• resurrection (of a company or school, etc.)