jpdb beta

edge of blade

1

essential; important; crucial; vital; main

3

completely (quitting, etc.); entirely; thoroughly; cleanly (cutting, snapping off, etc.); in a single blow

1

cutting; planting (a cutting)

1

to look up

2

imposing stance; daunting pose

1

particularly; only; in the case of

2

sharp sighted; easily awakened

1

angry voice

1

means of making a living; source of income; bread and butter; livelihood

1

to chop off; to snip off; to cut off (e.g. a conversation); to fire (a person)

1

to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)

1

to mediate; to intervene; to smooth

1

along; parallel to; in accordance with

1

pointing up; pointing upward; upturn; uptrend; upward tendency

1

to shove in; to push in; to force in

1

if you do this; if this is the case

1

to get the hang of; to learn the secret to

1

to pull oneself together; to collect oneself (after a failure); to regain control (of oneself)

1

continuation; continuance; going on; resuming

2

one's post; one's position; one's station; one's round; one's beat; one's route

1

to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess

2

even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little

2

temperature; body temperature (human, animal)

3

to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal

3

under one's eyes; below one's eyes

2

slightly; lightly; thinly; faintly; dimly

3

to be hazy; to be misty

1

mountain top; summit; peak

1

early closing; finishing (work) early

1

had better do so

1

descending (mountain)

2

invoking a deity during a festival held in that deity's honor; medium's invocation of a deity to take possession of her (to receive his divine message or revelation)

5

to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

2

to slide down (snow, etc.)

2

wave; ups and downs

2

in the twinkling of an eye; in a flash

2

in one's imagination

1

roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)

2

unusual; unwonted; uncharacteristic

1

to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down

2

to finish speaking

1

moment; brief space of time

1

to surge like an avalanche; to flood; to swarm; to stampede

1

milk-white; milky

1

uncertain; doubtful; unreliable; unsteady; unclear; vague

1

panic

2

calmly; quietly; gently; be quiet!

1

to appease; to suppress; to calm

2

drum

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