painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
hard to see; obscure; indistinct; illegible
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; node (of a plant stem); joint
many; much; plenty; hardly
please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if
to ripen; to mature; to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act); to be in common use; to come to sound natural
to pluck off (esp. by twisting); to pick; to break off; to wrest (away from); to wrench free; to snatch (away)
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
grain; bead; drop; counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops
relatively quickly (esp. actions); quite suddenly (esp. wind, rain, etc.)
belladonna (Atropa belladonna); deadly nightshade
true character; true form; true colors; consciousness; one's senses
aconite (esp. species Aconitum japonicum); wolfsbane; monkshood; traditional bugaku hat
burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case
nature (of a person); disposition; temperament; quality; inherent characteristic; property
to (enter and) sit down; to plop oneself down; to plant oneself down; to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit in (in protest)
to cover; to bury (e.g. one's face in hands); to submerge; to fill (completely); to stuff; to pack
running; gliding; first (harvest) of the season; beginning; start; kitchen sink
early days; early years; early stages; initial stages; beginning
confusion; distraction; derangement
what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much
(one's) gaze; line of sight; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (to obscure their identity); eye censor bar
attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
ophthalmologist; eye specialist
lovers' talk; whispered intimacies
mystery novel; detective novel; whodunit
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
closing (for the day; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); closing down (of a library, museum, cinema, etc.)
parting (of people); separation; farewell; breakup