a Japanese stringed instrument played by plucking, vaguely similar to a banjo / short for 三味線草 (shamisen-gusa): the shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris

(uncommon) a Japanese stringed instrument played by plucking, vaguely similar to a banjo

(archaic) beautiful

to play (a musical instrument or piece of music)

beautiful

song (especially when played with a shamisen)

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

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a lamp shell, lingulate brachiopod of the family Lingulidae