(typography) the form of a glyph whose width is scaled down, originally with a distorting lens in phototypesetting

(military, of the Imperial Japanese Navy) a warrant officer

to shorten, to shrink, to contract, to shrivel

a female given name

a female given name

(Japanese mythology) daughter of 海神 (Watatsumi), younger sister and daughter-in-law of 豊玉姫 (Toyotamabime), aunt and wife of 鸕鷀草葺不合 (Ugaya Fukiaezu), mother of Emperor Jinmu

to wait eagerly or impatiently

(idiomatic) to wait for one's punishment, to wait and see

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

(Tsugaru, dialect) we, us, ourselves