jpdb beta

game

6

alchemist

1

second

4

old man

2

aid; help; assistance; assistant; counselor; counsellor

1

tool; implement; means; furniture

6

to build (a fire); to make; to start; to light

1

match (to light fire with)

1

stick; piece of wood; billet; piece of a broken pole

1

to become damp; to become moist; to become wet; to lack energy; to be in a slump; to be in low spirits

2

tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber

30

piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs); kindling (twigs, branches, etc.); firewood

2

to burn; to get fired up

4

handful; small amount; small number

1

gunpowder; powder

1

denaturation; degeneration

4

fireworks

2

easy; simple; light

14

empty space; empty sky

10

emission; emanation; letting out (feelings); venting; divergence (of light); divergence

1

method; process; manner; way; means; technique

5

the former

3

on the occasion of; at the time of

2

training wheels; stabilizers

1

to carry around; to carry on one's person

6

departure; departing (from ...); sending; sent (by ...); engine; counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.

2

to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard

1

pushing though; bulldozing; doing something by force; arm twisting

1

this time; now

14

raw materials

1

to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip

2

root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base

2

to dig up; to unearth; to uncover

1

example; specimen; sample

2

quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty

2

around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing

3

earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)

6

ruffian; villain; peculiar person; idiosyncratic person; tricky thing; something that is more than it seems

1

to satisfy (conditions, one's appetite, etc.); to meet (e.g. demands); to fulfill; to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to supply

8

round shape; circle; circular form

1

fresco (technique of blending wet plaster with water-based paint); (laboratory) flask

1

to take advantage of; to impose on; to make an entry (in an account book)

3

halving; dividing (into two parts); bisection; the two equinoxes (vernal and autumnal)

2

to wither (of a plant); to be blasted; to die; to mature (of one's personality, abilities, etc.)

3

hard problem; person hard to please; hard nut to crack

2

um; er; nuh-uh; no; oof

2

beyond description

2

to be the case that

5

he; she; this; this one; Hey, you!; You bastard!

13

isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on

2