jpdb beta

company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)

1

dust; one ten-billionth

2

to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)

1

one or two; a few; small number

1

to pick up; to find; to gather

1

homelessness; homeless person; being removed from the family register (Edo period)

1

hunting; harvesting (e.g. berries, fruit); picking; gathering

1

awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely

1

sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care

1

stir; commotion; noise

1

town order (Edo period); order issued by a shogun or daimyo affecting a whole town, and passed on by town officials

1

to spread rumors; to spread rumours

1

meaning; called; said

1

notice or order handed down from above; announcement; notification; Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) to the concerned parties

1

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

3

talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)

2

seeing; looking at

2

character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

2

original home; birthplace; originator

1

one's own handwriting; autograph; holograph

1

right side; right-hand side

2

the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime

2

to write down

3

to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie

1

surely; certainly

1

different person; another person; someone else; changed man

1

avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)

1

as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also

2

soot

2

to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)

2

when; at what point

1

Poe

2

a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)

3

safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good

4

ha ha ha; hee hee hee

3

toot (e.g. of trumpet); honk (e.g. of klaxon); beep; farting sound; sound of something being inflated; puff

1

outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else

1

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

3

to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do

1

secret; secrecy

2

husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)

5

perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance

1

to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need

2

careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent

1

mousetrap; rattrap; rat poison; speed trap

1

to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)

1

stove; furnace; kiln

1

something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...

1

to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear

1

yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?

2