jpdb beta

limpid water

1

to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon

1

bench

3

health; healthy; sound; fit

1

poor health; ill health; unhealthy

2

illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane

1

chronic

1

suitable; satisfactory; desirable

1

to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged

1

letter (of alphabet); character; writing

4

going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people

1

mere; only; just; slight

1

from out of nowhere; from who knows where

1

one animal (small); (arch.) two-tan bolt of cloth

1

straight line; beeline

1

meaning of a sentence

1

to rock; to shake; to swing

1

to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray

1

occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle

1

piece (scrap, bit, strip) of paper

1

to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)

1

page

3

to jump up; to start up; to leap to one's feet; to fly away; to take off

1

ugly; unsightly; hideous; mean; repulsive; disgraceful

1

harmful insect; noxious insect; vermin; pest

1

to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to

1

reading (books)

2

lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate

1

old age

2

grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)

5

to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach

1

shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)

1

to get blurry vision; to get bleary eyes; to get dim eyesight

1

wicked tongue; abusive language

1

after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years

2

old woman

7

funeral

4

real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally

1

natural span of life; 250 years old

1

to accomplish; to fulfill; to carry out

1

cane; walking stick; staff; wand

4

to hide; to keep to oneself

1

great king

5

close associate; close aide; brains-truster

1

funeral service

4

grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

1

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

4

complimentary copy of a book

1

one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume

1

one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously

6