(idiomatic) to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

Japanese spikenard

(archaic, historical) a hairstyle, with the hair not tied up but hanging loose, typically worn by children / (by extension, archaic) a child older than a baby but not yet an adult

(usually repeated in the form あるいは…あるいは… (arui wa … arui wa …), obsolete) some; some people; something; sometimes