A Japanese children's game, similar to blind man's buff: The one in the middle is the demon, or 'It'. The demon has to keep their eyes covered while the others sing or chant and circle around him. When they stop, the demon has to guess who is sitting behind them.

many a true word is spoken in jest; words spoken in jest may come true (often by accident)

nothing but lies; full of lies

lie detector, polygraph

type of greenling, of the family Hexagrammidae, (fish)

expenses

facing one another and being intimate / copulation; intercourse

(intransitive) to wake up

Kyūjitai form of 目録 (“category; list”)

A kagome lattice; an arrangement of laths composed of interlaced triangles such that each point where two laths cross has four neighboring points. Although called a lattice, it is more closely related to trihexagonal tiling than to a mathematical lattice.