shrewd; smart (and wide-awake); inedible; uneatable; unable to support oneself; unable to keep body and soul together
waterfall; cataract; cascade
patrolling (esp. using ships or aircraft)
base; mean; vulgar; despicable; low
romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance
young child; toddler; child over 1 but not yet of school age
miasma; noxious form of "bad air" formerly believed to cause diseases
to hold out (e.g. against an attack); to hang on; to withstand; to endure; to last
pawn (chess piece); boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); flipping through the air; tossing
landing on water; hitting the water; splashdown
shoal; shallows; sand bar; ford
to take off one's glasses
(with a) start; fright; alarm
to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down
(the) best of one's life; lifetime ...
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
familiarity with the land; locality or terrain (usually associated with knowing or feeling the locality)
sluggishly; slowly; ploddingly; stolidly (standing); impassively
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
periodic; regular; routine
to be tripped up; to be too drunk to stand
feeling a sudden chill; feeling a shiver; feeling sudden surprise (fright, horror, etc.); shuddering
to paint over heavily; to plaster up
peeking; peeping (e.g. through a hole, narrow gap)
with a start; with a jump
to be cut out for (e.g. a job); to be suited (to)
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
misdeed; wrongdoing; wickedness
to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)