Nymphaea lotus, the white Egyptian lotus

(archaic, literary) to sleep with clothes overturned, as to meet their longed-for partner in a dream

Compounds

the sixteenth night of the month under the lunar calendar, just after the full moon

Short for 十六夜の月 (izayoi no tsuki): the moon just past the full moon, the start of the waning moon

ushi no toki mairi, a traditional Japanese practice where a person visits (参(まい)り (mairi)) a shrine at approximately 2 AM in the morning (丑(うし)の時(とき) (ushi no toki)) in order to nail a straw effigy of a person (藁人形(わらにんぎょう) (waraningyō)) to a tree and wish for that person's death

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(linguistics) synchronic

eleven o'clock

twelve o'clock; noon; midnight