"to strangle with floss-silk": to torture slowly

criminal / culprit

to strangle / to constrict, to keep something fastened or secure

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

Alternative spelling of 頭 (“head”) (part of the body)

poems and songs

(rare) the first one; a lord

neck / counter for songs and poems / beginning, first