to stop raining or snowing
to be all out; to exhaust
wintry; very cold-looking (e.g. landscape); bleak (e.g. room, street); desolate; empty (of furnishings)
last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.); eve (of festival, major event, etc.)
(it was) no bother at all; not at all; it was nothing
transfer; assignment; conveyance
fingerprint recognition; fingerprint authentication
to set a ladder up against
abuse; misuse; perversion
acceleration; speeding up
aspect; phase; condition; modality (philosophy)
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
refinement; narrowing-down
double-edged; double-edged blade
to brace oneself; to focus one's energies; to focus one's mind
small number; few; minority
itemization (of expenses); the items; breakdown; classification
over the fence (e.g. looking, conducting a conversation); back-fence
to lose one's footing; to slip
civilian clothes; plain clothes; mufti; plainclothes police officer
blackish; darkish; dark; dusky
large crowd; mass of people
crafty; vicious; unscrupulous; sharp
bōryokudan; gangster organization (organisation); crime syndicate; yakuza
all eyes; public attention
business practice; business method; commerce; commercial law
criminality; criminal propensity
various opinions; various theories; various rumors (rumours)
to grow light; to become white; to turn grey (gray)
to scrape off; to rub off
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
smelling of fish; fishy; degenerate (of a monk); depraved; worldly; mundane
row of teeth; set of teeth; dentition
to crack; to develop a crack
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract