dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation
resignation (from a position)
notice of personnel change (appointment, dismissal, etc.); wording; choice of language; phraseology
interpreter (esp. of Dutch and Chinese during the Edo period); interpretation; court interpreter
passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
admonitory speech (e.g. to students); words of admonition
farewell address; parting words
flowery language; pretty words
parting (farewell) address
particle (in Japanese); auxiliary word (in Japanese; particles and auxiliary verbs); auxiliary character (in kanbun)
words of praise; encomium
one's speech and appearance
prefatory words; epigraph
dictionaries (and similar books)
falsehood; syntactic expletive
commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)
message of condolence; memorial address
classifier (in Japanese and Chinese linguistics)
being ready to drink sake by the keg; drinking like a fish