to hold in one's mouth (without biting, before chewing or swallowing, etc.)
when in Rome, do as the Romans do
satisfaction; contentment; sufficient; satisfactory; satisfying (an equation)
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
quick; fast; rapid; swift; prompt; streamlined
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
on the occasion of; at the time of
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
to doubt; to think (something is) doubtful; to wonder; to be suspicious
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
first generation; founder
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to follow; to accompany; to cleave to; to join up with; to obey implicitly; to flatter
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
patriarch; head of a family
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
inheritance; succession; accession; share-alike