cee-lo (dice gambling game)
festival marking the start of boating season
matching dice; doublets; bet on two horses in the same bracket; repdigit; monodigit
to brush gently; to stroke; to caress
opening of the beachgoing season
house mouse (Mus musculus)
going crazy; losing one's temper; snapping; sound of a stretched string snapping
sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake
taking the field first, thus batting second
mania; enthusiasm; maniac; enthusiast; nut
escaping the summer heat; going somewhere cooler during the summer; summering
Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)
wrasse (any fish of family Labridae)
comfortable to live in (of a neighborhood, etc.); convenient; congenial; agreeable
the capital city (often Tokyo) area (typically within 50 km of city's centre) (center)
yacht (esp. a sailing boat with one mast); sailing boat; sailboat
weightlessness; zero gravity
flat out (of); completely empty; out of money; penniless; broke
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
equal division (of profits, prize money, etc.); equal split
to become animated; to liven up; to become active