device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement
Western clothing; Western binding
to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)
dozens; scores of; decades
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
to hand over; to surrender
to look around; to look towards (us)
to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge
to pair with; to pair up; to pair off
book; volume; this; present; main; head
groan; moan; roar; growl; buzz; hum (e.g. motor)
with a whiff; with a puff; suddenly; abruptly; without warning
property of a film or membrane
amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity
a bit better than; not much more than; not much different from
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
to strike against; to collide with; to encounter; to meet; to clash
bat (Chiroptera spp.); umbrella; opportunist; turncoat
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
dispersion; breakup; variance; dispersion
goal; target; aim; mark; sign; landmark
to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind
to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
mechanical doll; automaton; string puppet; marionette; (fig.) person who follows orders blindly
to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)
3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier); guandao; Chinese glaive
to swing downward; to bring down (one's sword, fist, etc.)
blade; sword; forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades; sharpness; unhulled rice
just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
to come loose; to come untied; to come undone; to loosen up (e.g. tension)
creak; squeak; creaking; discord; strife; friction
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
to wield; to brandish; to display (one's knowledge); to show off; to abuse (one's power); to manipulate someone
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
to clear away; to clear land; to prune; to lop off
dripping; trickling; wet and heavy (snow, clay, etc.); (arch.) (moving) slowly