伏

Intransitive verb

penal servitude; submitting to a sentence; pleading guilty

伏罪 only; Rare term

undetected crime

Sulculus diversicolor supertexta (species of abalone or ear shell)

covered drain

subterranean stream

humble cottage; hut

Agriculture

lodging (of cereals)

awing into submission

report to the throne

concealment

latency

water gone underground (to emerge as a spring)

going (e.g. of a flight of stairs); length

dip (angle that the direction of a compass needle makes with the horizon)

frame for drying or perfuming clothes (oft. made out of bamboo)

coop; hen coop

bowing down; humbly; respectfully

sheltered trench

ivory shell; cockle

Dentistry

impacted tooth

fukubachi; inverted bowl that sits above the base of a pagoda finial

inverted siphon; siphon culvert

bearded tooth fungus (Hericium erinaceum); lion's mane mushroom

laying stones flat (e.g. in gardens)

method for assigning colors to players (othello)

dye resistant starch (used to protect a design)

to hold (someone) down; to pin down; to wrestle to the ground