coughing; hacking cough; thundering; drumming
whistling sound; wheezing sound; sound of the wind; wuthering; howling; soughing
with all due respect; if I may make bold to ask
to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)
spirit power; magical power
selfish; self-centred; egotistical
to raise (to maturity); to bring up; to rear; to train; to educate
long (time); protracted; prolonged
close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); being outdone; compare unfavourably (with); closing price (stockmarket); sink mark (casting, moulding)
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
to hold the steering wheel; to drive (a car)
passenger seat; assistant driver's seat
while moving; on the move
cannibalism; biting (someone); man-eating (e.g. tiger); cannibalistic
courting; wooing; making advances
to grow older; to advance in age; to be very aged
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
to heap abuse upon (a person); to criticize strongly; to blast (someone)
encouragement (as an abstract concept); stimulation
fertilization; fertilisation; impregnation; pollination; insemination
implantation (of an embryo)
girl; lass; young thing; chick
irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring; depressing; dark (e.g. story)
clothes for a newborn baby; baby clothes
before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)
no-good man; (male) loser
bowing while pressing three fingers of each hand on floor
in the belly; in one's heart of hearts
India; cotton sheeting; foreign; imported; ultra-spicy; extra hot
three countries; Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE); (arch.) Japan, China and India; (arch.) Japan, Korea and China
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material