オ: a sign used in some books / 尾: tail, brush, train / 峰, 丘: hill; peak / 魚: fish / 麻, 苧: the hemp or ramie plant; thread or yarn made from fibers derived from the bark of hemp or ramie stems

聾桟敷: being kept uninformed, being kept in the dark; the upper gallery where the dialogue is not heard well (of a theatre)

to devour, to gobble something greedily

past tense form of であう