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1 lit. to net birds and dig for rats (idiom); fig. hard pressed for cash

2 on the verge of bankruptcy

1 bay bridge (elevated bridge across stretch of water)

1 to meet with misfortune

1 tablecloth

1 to play the market

2 to speculate (on financial markets)

3 to profiteer

1 quadrant (in coordinate geometry)

1 stylobate (architecture)

1 vibration

2 oscillation

1 Chinese poker

1 a Daoist

2 a follower of Daoism

1 to trace something to its source (idiom)

1 dressing room

2 powder room

3 (Tw) toilets

1 (high) quality

1 one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is not a man (idiom)

1 cancellous bone

2 trabecular bone

3 spongy bone

1 one kind of

2 one type of

1 rational number (i.e. fraction of two integers, math.)

1 to lack patience

1 auspicious sculpted animal, usu. a unicorn or deer with a long tail

2 possession of the empire