食, 蝕: (astronomy) to eclipse (often, but not exclusively, the sun or the moon)

(history) the House of Peers (upper house of Japan's Imperial Diet) / the House of Lords (upper house of Britain's or Ireland's Parliament)

aristocracy

the infancy and beginning of something

faltering in worry

falter in worry

(archaic, colloquial) a nickname of Ariwara no Narihira, Heian-period waka poet

just as in the old days, just as it used to be

(archaic) used in the beginning of narratives or story literature: once upon a time, long ago

toy/plaything that comes along with food