450k hits.

@@ -6,0 +6,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>エンゲイジ</reb>

Daijr, Koj

Seems to be used almost exclusively to mean "engagement". There is "エンゲージ角/engage angle", hence sense 2, but this might be "engagement angle".

@@ -9,1 +9,7 @@
-<gloss>engage</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1030840">エンゲージメント</xref>
+<misc>&abbr;</misc>
+<gloss>engagement</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
+<gloss>engage (e.g. angle)</gloss>

Daijr (POS)

About 40k hits for グレート + grate. Lot of hits for グレイト.

@@ -8,0 +8,7 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>グレイト</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<sense>
+<pos>&adj-na;</pos>
+<gloss>great</gloss>
+</sense>
@@ -10,1 +17,1 @@
-<gloss>great</gloss>
+<gloss>grate</gloss>

Indeed. Well spotted.

I think this makes more sense.

@@ -10 +10 @@
-<lsource xml:lang="eng">(gene)ral (con)tractor</lsource>
+<lsource xml:lang="eng">gene(ral) con(tractor)</lsource>

I think I'll close it at this stage. 
We've had a ゼネラルコントラクター entry since 2005, and it gets ~200 in the n-grams. I see many of those are describing the source of ゼネコン as general contractor accompanied by the katakanan transcription, but a few are freestanding. That said, I can't really make a case for ゼネコン coming from ゼネラルコントラクター. I'll put a link from ゼネコン to here.

https://www.oreyume.com/column/otherwise/4204/
"ゼネコンとは、もともとは英単語の「General Contractor（ゼネラル・コントラクター）」が語源となった言葉です。"

The fact that no dictionary has an entry for ゼネラルコントラクター (or even mentions it) suggests that it was never an established term before ゼネコン came into existence.
See how the above site explains the origin of the term. I don't think it's generally considered an abbreviation in Japanese.

My bad. 

I think it'd be easier to just do the xref. I just don't find it very believable that "general contractor" made the jump from English into 
Japanese immediately as ゼネコン, and even 百歩譲って assuming it's true, it's such a minor, minor point and I don't see how it'd do any 
harm to call this an abbr and x-ref to ゼネラルコントラクター.

Daijr, GG5, etc.

Merging 2500680. Moving tag (ボコーダー is ten times more common).

@@ -5,0 +5,4 @@
+<reb>ボコーダー</reb>
+<re_pri>gai1</re_pri>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
@@ -6,1 +10,0 @@
-<re_pri>gai1</re_pri>

会う	4190653
逢う	334281
遭う	316947
遇う	15102

@@ -21,0 +22 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>

http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/会う

I found this in a context where "meet" or "encounter" didn't really fit, because someone only saw someone else.  Then at the reference link I found a few entries that included "see" as a definition.

@@ -35,0 +35,1 @@
+<gloss>to see</gloss>

I was a bit quick scanning Daijirin's "施設・建造物など...". 施設 is rather physical. Better drop that.

@@ -25,1 +25,1 @@
-<gloss>foundation (building, institution, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>foundation (building, etc.)</gloss>

"foundation (institution)" suggests that it can mean "an institution established with an endowment" 
(like 財団). But I don't think that's true, is it? What is meant by "institution" here, actually?

Daijr, GG5, 新和英中辞典, etc.

The refs are all over the place with sense splits. GG5 and 中辞典 combine ground/crust/etc. with foundation/base, but Daijirin and Kodansha split. Daijr has "bed" in with the earthy one, which makes sense. GG5 splits footing/foothold and support/constituency, but 中辞典 combines them.
I think the above works OK without getting too messy.
GG5 has ちばん as a reading; Daijr just mentions it.

@@ -14,0 +14,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ちばん</reb>
+</r_ele>
@@ -16,1 +19,3 @@
-<gloss>(the) ground</gloss>
+<gloss>ground</gloss>
+<gloss>crust (earth)</gloss>
+<gloss>bed (gravel, river, etc.)</gloss>
@@ -20,5 +25,1 @@
-<gloss>bed (river)</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>foundation</gloss>
+<gloss>foundation (building, institution, etc.)</gloss>
@@ -32,0 +33,2 @@
+<gloss>footing</gloss>
+<gloss>foothold</gloss>

Kodansha:
地盤 [じばん] 
(1)大地の表面。地殻(ちかく)。ground <用例> ～沈下。
(2)建造物などの基礎となる土地。土台。foundation
(3)物事の根拠地。勢力の範囲。base <用例> ～をかためる。
.
河床 [かしょう] ★ 川の地盤。かわどこ。riverbed

I don't think "stronghold" is quite the right word. It's defined as
1. A place that has been fortified so as to protect it against attack
2. A place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended or upheld
I think it's more like "constituency; support (electoral, etc.)" 
It corresponds to Kodansha's 勢力の範囲.
Anyway, I don't think that sense should come at the head of the definition.
Example:
当地では近年共和党の地盤沈下が続いている
The Republicans have been losing support here recently.

@@ -16,2 +16,0 @@
-<gloss>stronghold</gloss>
-<gloss>base</gloss>
@@ -20,0 +18,15 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>bed (river)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>foundation</gloss>
+<gloss>base</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>constituency</gloss>
+<gloss>power base</gloss>
+<gloss>support (electoral)</gloss>
+</sense>

G-ngrams gg5

moving adj-no first

@@ -26,0 +27 @@
+<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
@@ -29 +29,0 @@
-<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
@@ -34,0 +35 @@
+<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
@@ -37 +37,0 @@
-<pos>&adj-no;</pos>

chujiten
当たり前さ.
Of course.
saito
1（＝当然のこと）（a matter） of course
怒ったかって?　あたりまえさ
Am I angry? Of course, I am.

"of course" will frequently be the most natural 
translation, but "of course" is, of course, not an 
adjective. Should it maybe be listed as a third sense as an 
exp?

@@ -41,0 +41,2 @@
+<gloss>commonplace</gloss>
+<gloss>the norm</gloss>

http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/半狂乱

@@ -13,0 +13,1 @@
+<gloss>frantic</gloss>

mk

@@ -16,0 +17 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
@@ -22,0 +24 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
@@ -28,0 +31 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>

daij, gg5

Splitting.
I don't think "levitation" is right. It's not in any of the regular EJs and the kokugos explicitly mention water.

@@ -18,0 +19,4 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
@@ -21 +25,5 @@
-<gloss>levitation</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
+<gloss>rising (of rank)</gloss>

JST, I see.

http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/levitation

@@ -21,0 +21,1 @@
+<gloss>levitation</gloss>

We should have it somewhere. RP uses this term and my other EJs use 薬屋. I'll move it 
there.

I don't think an old word like "apothecary" is a fitting translation for a modern term like 薬剤師, which refers to licensed pharmacists.

@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<gloss>pharmacist</gloss>
@@ -17,2 +17,0 @@
-<gloss>pharmacist</gloss>
-<gloss>apothecary</gloss>

http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/apothecary  
http://mtgwiki.com/wiki/熟練の薬剤師/Master_Apothecary  
http://kotobank.jp/word/apothecary

The JMDICT didn't have a match for "apothecary", and this seemed to be the most common equivalent when I searched.

@@ -18,0 +18,1 @@
+<gloss>apothecary</gloss>

縄張り	239915	80.4%
縄張	12395	4.2%
なわ張り	4144	1.4%
繩張り	277	0.1%
なわばり	41582	13.9%

@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -18 +19 @@
-<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>

daij, koj, meikyo

The kokugos have a separate "territory" sense.

@@ -40,0 +41,5 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<field>&zool;</field>
+<gloss>territory (of an animal)</gloss>
+</sense>

縄張り	239915
縄張	12395
繩張り	277
なわ張り	4144 <- seen in dictionary explanations.

@@ -11,0 +12,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>なわ張り</keb>

Not entirely sure [vt] is needed. Only meikyo, iwakoku, and sankoku have both [vi] and [vt] tags. 

daijr/s, koj, meikyo, and sankoku don't say that the -も- okurigana is optional. I'm tagging 身籠る and 身篭る as [io].

姙る was just a rare itaiji form. Probably not needed.

@@ -8,6 +7,0 @@
-<keb>身籠る</keb>
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
-<keb>身篭る</keb>
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
@@ -18 +11,0 @@
-<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -26 +19,9 @@
-<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>身籠る</keb>
+<ke_inf>&io;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>身篭る</keb>
+<ke_inf>&io;</ke_inf>
@@ -32,0 +34 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
@@ -34 +35,0 @@
-<pos>&vt;</pos>

sankoku, iwakoku
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ を身ごもる │  3,581 │ 15.5% │
│ を身ごもっ │ 19,455 │ 84.5% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 身ごもる │ 5,593 │ 42.5% │
│ 身籠る　 │ 4,347 │ 33.0% │
│ 身篭る　 │ 1,961 │ 14.9% │
│ 身籠もる │   415 │  3.2% │
│ 身篭もる │    24 │  0.2% │ add rK
│ 妊る　　 │   129 │  1.0% │ add rK (daijr/s, obunsha, shinkok)
│ 孕る　　 │     0 │  0.0% │ add sK (daijr)
│ 姙る　　 │     0 │  0.0% │ remove - i dont see it anywhere
│ みごもる │   705 │  5.4% │
╰─ーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯

@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -20,0 +22 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -24,3 +26 @@
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
-<keb>姙る</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -33,0 +34 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>

daijs

@@ -11,0 +12,6 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>身籠もる</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>身篭もる</keb>

G n-grams:
 身ごもる	5593
 身籠る	4347
 身篭る	1961
 妊る	 129
 孕る	No matches
 姙る	No matches
 みごもる	 705

@@ -8,0 +9,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>身篭る</keb>

Yes.

shouldn't this just be in enam (as Gion, Kyoto)?

GG5, etc. (JEs usually just have "base isolation".)

Probably better to move that amplification to an "expl" gloss. At present they are not reflected in the XML or EDICT versions, but they will be eventually.

@@ -13,1 +13,1 @@
-<gloss>base isolation (vibration damping at the base of a building)</gloss>
+<gloss>base isolation</gloss>
@@ -16,0 +16,1 @@
+<gloss g_type="expl">vibration damping at the base of a building</gloss>

"Base isolation, also known as seismic base isolation ..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_isolation
.
I suggest a more concise wording of the explanation of "base isolation".
The 2nd gloss, including the word "seismic" is probably sufficient to indicate 
that the damping is intended to be for earthquake resistance.

@@ -13,2 +13,3 @@
-<gloss>base isolation (in buildings to result in damping vibrations for earthquake-resistance)</gloss>
-<gloss>base-isolating</gloss>
+<gloss>base isolation (vibration damping at the base of a building)</gloss>
+<gloss>seismic base isolation</gloss>
+<gloss>base isolating</gloss>

Entry created

See discussion on ゼネコン entry.

@@ -17,0 +18,2 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1075130">ゼネコン</xref>
+<misc>&obsc;</misc>

Added additional dotted reading(s) via batch update.Added additional dotted reading(s) via batch update.
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-

@@ -13,0 +13,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ゼネラル・コントラクタ</reb>
+</r_ele>

Added additional dotted reading(s) via batch update.Added additional dotted reading(s) via batch update.
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-

@@ -10,0 +10,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ゼネラル・コントラクター</reb>
+</r_ele>

Merging 2150490.

@@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ゼネラルコントラクター</reb>
+</r_ele>

GG5, 新和英中辞典

@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+<gloss>worshipper</gloss>
@@ -13,0 +14,1 @@
+<gloss>visitor (to a shrine or temple)</gloss>

Entry created

Merged with 2058740.

Entry created

Merging 2469830.

@@ -6,0 +6,9 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>アイデンティティークライシス</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>アイデンティティ・クライシス</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>アイデンティティー・クライシス</reb>

Entry created

http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1163137861  
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/all/やっとの思いで/m3u/  
http://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/やっと/9

@@ -15,0 +15,2 @@
+<gloss>at last</gloss>
+<gloss>just barely</gloss>

Entry created

ngrams
零余子	60
むかご	682
ムカゴ	610

@@ -15,0 +16,4 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ムカゴ</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
+</r_ele>

GG5

@@ -20,0 +20,2 @@
+<gloss>propagule</gloss>
+<gloss>brood bud</gloss>

Entry created

Merged with 2155180.

Entry created

Merged with 1123820.

Entry created

daijs

@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<pos>&vs;</pos>

ＫＯＤ追加語彙

@@ -12,1 +12,1 @@
-<gloss>blowout</gloss>
+<gloss>blowout (oil well, gas field, etc.)</gloss>

JOGMEC's 石油・天然ガス用語辞典

Thanks for making that last change, Jim. Regarding the remaining definition:
.
I think "hot spring area" can suggest an area *outside* of town, as in "Jigokudani Monkey Park is a famous 
hot spring area near Nagano, Japan" -- that area would not be considered a 温泉街 because it's not a 町並み 
(as in Wikipedia's definition -- 温泉の宿泊施設や温浴施設などが立ち並ぶ町並み). 
.
And adding "e.g. within a town" also suggests that it could be outside the town (thanks to the "e.g."). 
.
I suggest that we could say it's a "district", by analogy with the term "red light district", and that we 
should remove the "e.g." since it's necessarily part of a town, and not out in the countryside.

@@ -12,1 +12,1 @@
-<gloss>hot spring area (e.g. within a town)</gloss>
+<gloss>hot spring district (within a town)</gloss>

Richard has convinced me this was misleading.

@@ -13,1 +13,0 @@
-<gloss>hot spring resort</gloss>

Maybe this is more succinct.

@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+<gloss>hot spring area (e.g. within a town)</gloss>

"a part of town where hot spring inns or facilities are clustered" -- I think 
that's a nice definition there from GG5, and I think my "resort" is a bit off the 
mark, since it suggests that it's the whole of the town rather than just a part.
.
How about "a part of town with a concentration of hot spring facilities and 
related businesses" or something along those lines?

http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q128613882

http://www.practical-japanese.com/2011/07/blog-post_45.html
91k hits

GG5, 新和英中辞典

@@ -11,0 +11,1 @@
+<pos>&n;</pos>

http://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/Szerkesztő:Csörföly_D/jap-tech

Oops... had forgotten the other reference

EIJIRO

LS, ＫＯＤ追加語彙

Came up on the Translators' FB page.

@@ -12 +12 @@
-<pos>&v5r;</pos>
+<pos>&v1;</pos>

GG5, Eijiro

@@ -13,2 +13,2 @@
-<gloss>stand side by side</gloss>
-<gloss>stand in a row</gloss>
+<gloss>to stand side by side</gloss>
+<gloss>to stand in a row</gloss>

http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/軒を並べる  
http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/軒

You can add 客 to a heap of things, which I guess is why this isn't in dictionaries. But then you can add 者 too, and 参拝者 is recorded all over the place.

@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2144430">参拝者・さんぱいしゃ</xref>

eij examples 
used in 2 daijs entries 21 nipp entries
140k (b)

@@ -12 +12 @@
-<pos>&v5r;</pos>
+<pos>&v1;</pos>

GG5 (one example)

@@ -13,0 +13,1 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2779430">軒を並べる</xref>

http://kotobank.jp/word/軒を連ねる  
http://www.weblio.jp/content/軒を連ねる  
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/171729/m0u/

Synonym for 軒を並べる

one eij example
used in 7 daijs examples

〈藁／わら／ワラ〉にも〈すが／縋〉る〈思／想／おも〉い〈で／出〉

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 藁にもすがる思いで　　 │ 10,108 │ 52.0% │
│ 藁にも縋る思いで　　　 │  1,124 │  5.8% │
│ わらにもすがる思いで　 │  4,506 │ 23.2% │ - sK
│ ワラにもすがる思いで　 │  2,630 │ 13.5% │ - sK
│ 藁にもすがる想いで　　 │    337 │  1.7% │
│ ワラにもすがる思い出　 │    138 │  0.7% │
│ ワラにもすがる想いで　 │    108 │  0.6% │
│ わらにもすがる想いで　 │     70 │  0.4% │
│ 藁にもすがる思い出　　 │     68 │  0.3% │
│ 藁にも縋る想いで　　　 │     65 │  0.3% │
│ 藁にもすがるおもいで　 │     61 │  0.3% │
│ ワラにも縋る思いで　　 │     59 │  0.3% │
│ わらにも縋る思いで　　 │     58 │  0.3% │
│ わらにもすがる思い出　 │     56 │  0.3% │
│ わらにもすがるおもいで │     45 │  0.2% │
│ ワラにもすがるおもいで │      0 │  0.0% │ - drop
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯

Interesting that 思い出 gets some hits

@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -14,0 +16 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -18,7 +19,0 @@
-<re_restr>藁にもすがる思いで</re_restr>
-<re_restr>藁にも縋る思いで</re_restr>
-<re_restr>わらにもすがる思いで</re_restr>
-</r_ele>
-<r_ele>
-<reb>ワラにもすがるおもいで</reb>
-<re_restr>ワラにもすがる思いで</re_restr>

googits

@@ -9,0 +10,6 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>わらにもすがる思いで</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>ワラにもすがる思いで</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -11,0 +18,7 @@
+<re_restr>藁にもすがる思いで</re_restr>
+<re_restr>藁にも縋る思いで</re_restr>
+<re_restr>わらにもすがる思いで</re_restr>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ワラにもすがるおもいで</reb>
+<re_restr>ワラにもすがる思いで</re_restr>

Very common.

@@ -5,1 +5,1 @@
-<keb>藁にも縋る思いで</keb>
+<keb>藁にもすがる思いで</keb>
@@ -8,1 +8,1 @@
-<keb>藁にもすがる思いで</keb>
+<keb>藁にも縋る思いで</keb>
@@ -14,0 +14,1 @@
+<pos>&exp;</pos>

http://www.sanabo.com/kotowaza/arc/2001/06/post_664.html  
http://p.twipple.jp/Lkd5Q  
http://www.dictjuggler.net/yakugo/?word=last  
http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/content/ワラにもすがる思いで

藁にも縋る	2287
藁にもすがる	20495

@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>藁にも縋る</keb>
+<keb>藁にもすがる</keb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<keb>藁にもすがる</keb>
+<keb>藁にも縋る</keb>
@@ -19,0 +20 @@
+<misc>&id;</misc>

googits

@@ -12,0 +13,4 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ワラにもすがる</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
+</r_ele>

Koj

http://quizlet.com/13095247/print/  
http://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/"catch+at"  
http://www.answers.com/topic/grasp

holy crap.  that original gloss was a bit much

GG5, Eijiro, Kagaku, Igaku, etc.

危険 + 率, but the "significance level" is not obvious.

@@ -12,1 +12,8 @@
-<gloss>Size / Significance level of a test (α) For simple hypotheses, this is the test's probability of incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis. The false positive rate. For composite hypotheses this is the upper bound of the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis over all cases covered by the null hypothesis. The complement of the false positive rate, (1 − α), is termed specificity in biostatistics. ("This is a specific test. Because the result is positive, we can confidently say that the patient has the condition.") See sensitivity and specificity and Type I and type II errors for exhaustive definitions.</gloss>
+<gloss>risk ratio</gloss>
+<gloss>percentage of risk</gloss>
+<gloss>hazard rate</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>significance level</gloss>
+<gloss>level of significance</gloss>

GG5, Kagaku, Igaku, LSD, etc.

@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+<pos>&n-suf;</pos>
@@ -14,0 +15,3 @@
+<gloss>eliminator</gloss>
+<gloss>eradicator</gloss>
+<gloss>-cide</gloss>

http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/pesticide  
http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/駆除剤