an elder / a scholar / a teacher or a professor / sensei (Japanese martial arts teacher) / sir, a polite form of address to teachers, doctors, etc.

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

flatter / humor / flirt

a title used after the name of teachers, doctors, lawyers, or certain other professionals

(dialect, Hakata) teacher, professor

涸れる: to dry up / 枯れる: of a plant: to wither; to wilt; to die / 枯れる, 嗄れる: of one's voice: to become husky; to become hoarse

dead, dried leaf

Abbreviation of 師.

oath, promise, swearing, vowing, abjuration, pledge, word of honor

take an oath, make a sworn statement, swear an oath