lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
behind; in the rear; in back
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
to sharpen; to grind; to whet; to hone; to make keen
in detail; with great care; completely; fully
foxes and tanuki; sly fellow; deceiver
to swell; to rise; to bulge; to rouse; to get excited
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
length (of an animal); body length
three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold
to take hold of; to possess; to haunt
to turn aside adroitly; to dodge
thundering; purring; something large and heavy starting to roll; scattered about; common; idleness; idling about
attitude; posture; preparedness; readiness
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
to kick flying (often a person in sport, martial arts, etc.)
to bring back; to restore
to fall on one's backside
to soften; to moderate; to relieve
limply; wearily; listlessly; languidly; exhaustedly; unenergetically
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
to put to sleep; to lay (something) on its side
completely ordinary; plain; commonplace; everyday
to be unequal to the burden (job); to be too heavy a load for
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
one-way (trip); one-way ticket
even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that
participation; joining; entry; adherence
to boast; to brag; to recite (a song or poem to oneself); to bark; to roar