jpdb beta

to employ; to hire; to charter

1

one's parents' home; one's origins; one's upbringing; one's past

4

to shake one's head (in denial)

1

night rain

1

false moustache

2

to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage

1

to revive; to come to oneself; to be restored to life

2

monkey arm; long arm

1

moustache; mustache

1

to tear off; to pluck off; to take forcibly

1

formal; stiff; pompous; stern; solemn; grave

1

evil countenance

1

in the company of; accompanied by ...; as a group comprising ...; likes of ...

1

about to start out; just about to leave or go out; outing; trip

1

desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager

1

gesture; movement; action; acting; performance

1

to deliver; to extradite; to stretch across; to hand over

1

since; this person

1

to be superfluous; to be in excess; to be more than enough

1

magician; wizard; sorcerer; witch

1

unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful

1

wonder; admiration; being struck with admiration

1

grand; far-reaching; ambitious

1

container; receptacle; utensil; implement; calibre; talent

1

(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain

1

to take care of; to bring up under one's personal care; to kill with one's own hands; to do personally; to handle (e.g. a job); to request that someone deal with (something)

1

clever; shrewd; canny; smart; quick; prompt

1

to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt

1

record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document

1

vanity

1

to accomplish; to finish; to fulfill

1

to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan

1

sudden; abrupt; unexpected; unforeseen

1

difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)

1

cave; hollow; cavity; hollow

2

to deceive; to delude; to trick; to be as ... as ... (e.g. "as bright as day", "as beautiful as a rose")

2

cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties

1

guard; lookout; watch

1

bottom of a box

1

participation; joining; entry; adherence

1

large-scale play; play with an A-list cast; big act; big charade; theatre with a government licence (Edo period)

1

seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock

1

double role; one person playing two roles; wearing two hats

1

to shoot to death

1

to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)

1

criminal investigation

1

to extol; to sing the praises of; to celebrate; to declare; to stipulate; to express

1

Vidocq

1

to let leak; to let out (e.g. light); to let out (a secret); to leak (information); to give utterance to (e.g. one's dissatisfaction); to vent; to wet one's pants

1

any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever

1