dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation
notice of personnel change (appointment, dismissal, etc.); wording; choice of language; phraseology
resignation (from a position)
(bowing and) greeting; (arch.) declining; (arch.) refusing
passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
interpreter (esp. of Dutch and Chinese during the Edo period); interpretation; court interpreter
admonitory speech (e.g. to students); words of admonition
flowery language; pretty words
farewell address; parting words
parting (farewell) address
particle (in Japanese); auxiliary word (in Japanese; particles and auxiliary verbs); auxiliary character (in kanbun)
words of praise; encomium
one's speech and appearance
dictionaries (and similar books)
prefatory words; epigraph
falsehood; syntactic expletive
message of condolence; memorial address
commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)
classifier (in Japanese and Chinese linguistics)
being ready to drink sake by the keg; drinking like a fish