1 to welcome

2 welcome

1 to deliver

2 to carry

3 to give (as a present)

4 to present (with)

5 to see off

6 to send

1 just as in the past (idiom); as before

2 continuing as always

1 to associate (with)

2 to have contact (with)

3 to hang out (with)

4 to date

5 (interpersonal) relationship

6 association

7 contact

1 in the past

2 formerly

1 just as in the past (idiom); as before

2 continuing as always

1 to advance courageously (idiom)

2 to press forward

1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)

2 one should constantly strive to make progress

1 goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it

1 goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.