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- Japanese - a. - Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.
- Japanese - n. sing. & pl. - A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.
- Japanese - n. sing. & pl. - The language of the people of Japan.
- Satsuma ware - - A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.
- Sumach - n. - Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.
- Xanthoxylene - n. - A liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted from the seeds of a Japanese prickly ash (Xanthoxylum pipertium) as an aromatic oil.
- Tycoon - n. - The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.
- Hyalonema - n. - A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.
- Japanned - a. - Treated, or coated, with varnish in the Japanese manner.
- Japan - n. - Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning.
- Chopstick - n. - One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
- Norimon - n. - A Japanese covered litter, carried by men.
- Soy - n. - A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
- Japanning - n. - The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner.
- Loquat - n. - The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.
- Inc - n. - A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.
- Sen - n. - A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.