crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
only; merely; but; no more than
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
townsfolk; resident (of a town); merchant
to shut; to close; to block (a street, entrance, etc.); to shut in (with snow, ice, etc.); to shut off; to consume (with negative feelings)
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
oversight; omission; mistake
helplessly; easily; without resistance; without regret
emphasizes direct object of action
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
wasted effort; fruitless effort; vain efforts
excellent plan; best policy
highest (e.g. floor); top; best; finest; supreme
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. someone's head); to pour liquid (on something); to dash liquid (over something); to plate (something) with metal; to cover (with a dental crown); to add (e.g. music to a video)
being forced to commit seppuku; to be forced to bear responsibility and resign from one's position
to match; to equal; (arch.) to catch up with; (arch.) to overtake
spy; secret agent; spying
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
setting out at night; nighttime penile erection
he; she; that guy; that; that one; that thing
absence of permission; lack of permission; absence of (advance) notice; lack of notice
ambush; troops in ambush; unexpected opposition; unexpected obstacle
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
to be mad about; to be hooked on; to find something hilarious; to find something so funny that one cannot stop laughing
byway; bypath; byroad; loophole; way out (of trouble); excuse
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over
to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak
to reflect on (oneself, past conduct, etc.); to contemplate; to examine; to think over; to introspect
ingenuity; resourcefulness
please (give me); please (do for me)
idiot; moron; stupid; foolish; trivial; insignificant; malfunctioning
grizzled; (hair) streaked with grey (gray)
fat; thick; deep (of a voice); thick; daring; shameless
respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
complex; complicated; intricate; mixed (feelings)
physiological; physical; visceral; instinctive; in one's guts
to explain clearly; to give detailed instructions
running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt); moonlight flit; skipping town overnight; upping and leaving under the cover of darkness; midnight vanishing act