jpdb beta

just above; right overhead

2

one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand

2

to hold up in one's arms

3

thud; bang

2

to make an appearance; to show up

1

four (long cylindrical things)

5

scissors; shears; clippers; hole punch

3

eight (long cylindrical things)

2

I; me

2

example; simile; metaphor; allegory

4

scorpion (Scorpiones spp.)

1

wise; sensible; well-advised; intelligent; sagacious; prudent

1

to draw a line (between); to make a distinction (between); to distinguish (between)

1

strong person; the strong; the powerful

2

whip scorpion (Thelyphonida spp.)

69

device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement

3

namely; that is (to say); in other words

1

one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart

1

to become calm; to die down

1

water's surface

1

to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself

5

fate; destiny; lot

1

to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to

1

sympathy

1

once more

2

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)

1

to hurt one's reputation; to be ashamed of oneself; to lose one's honour

1

if I (we, etc.) could

1

to bear; to shoulder

1

to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to plunge into; to charge into; to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to press (someone) about

5

foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse

1

to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither

1

weakness; debility; breakdown; prostration

1

management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

1

quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to

1

to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)

1

far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry

1

creakily; close (i.e. with no room to spare)

1

to sidle up to

1

beginning; start

1

jet; spray; injection; jet propulsion

1

coming flying in (migratory birds, airborne sand, pollen, etc.); coming by airplane

2

purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce

1

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

3

to dissolve; to melt

4

dissolution; dissolving; solution (e.g. chemical); melting; liquefying; fusion

6

liquid; fluid

5

one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although

2

to stop walking; to pause

1

precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern

1