| | because,sothat,as,for. : I am not going because I am busy. : well, and so... :why? : take as your food.
.: somethinggreat,strong,powerful.
.thunder. : thethunderbolt has fallen, the thunderroars.
.a bigcrowd. .
.rock,reef,crag,iceberg. hard,solid,firm as a rock,fixed. : amass of canoes... clouds.
. don'tsay anything! don'tmove!
.1.oil. : small coconutshell used formerly as recipient for oil. : smallbottles for oil. 2.coward. cowardly. : , to make a show of courage and run away. 3.belch. to belch. n.disgust,aversion,repugnance. : whichdisgusts, causes... : don't talk about it, it disgusts me. : to make or cause to belch. food which causes belching. .
.leaf,palm,midrib of palm leaf,page of paper,card,leaflet. , etc.: one, two, three leaves. , etc.: fig.height,rank,class,excellence. , etc. : you are not up to my rank, or worth. :royalty,prince. : high rank. : lowest rank,vile,rejected. :leafy,branchy,luxuriant. :leaves,leaf of tree. : coconutleaf, palmbranch<frond -- gwg>. : top branch. : whiteleaf of coconut not fully developed. . :leaf of palm just beginning to appear. : smallleaf (of ). : a leaf not yet divided into folioles. :leaf already divided into folioles. : a young coconuttree with leaves already straight, long and well developed. :strip palm of its folioles. :cut off (with knife) the outside edges of midrib of palm leaf to make it even and utilizable. : tie the midribs of a leaf on; for ex.lattice. :leaf,page. :playingcards, apack of...
.asickness (symptoms, violent diarrhoea). : same sickness only stronger. : asickness, red patches,inflammation of vein,phlebitis. : a sickness,yellowjaundice.
.tasteless,repugnant,repulsive. : giving...
. moralsupport,help,helpful person. : tosuccour, torelieve. |
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| | a kind ofrod baited and moved in water to attract bonito. ,: |
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| | leaves of . land or object acquired by adoption,inherited by an adopted ... |
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| | . one who possesses but will not share,rich butmean. |
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| | a way offishing consisting of encircling a rock or heap of stones with a net. and or from. |
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| | dark green flourishingleaves. . |
|
| | Pomacentridae. damselfish (gen). Abudefduf septemfasciatus. A. sordidus. Chromis caeruleus (bamaii). Dascyllus trimaculatus. |
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| | lancetfish.
.imbecility,silliness,foolishness,imbecile,fool,simpleton. foolish,silly,cracked,crazy,stupid. : to make... treat as... toflatter, totoady. : you take me for a fool. :love,dote on,idolize. :flattery of vain persons.
.rope of lower sail yard,tack line. :pull the line orhaul in close to the wind. :slacken the rope.
.aboard,plank, used for divers purposes; for ex. awash board,surf board, etc. : adraughtboard. : a board to weave on. :wash board.
.1. , etc. to makemad, tobewitch, tocast aspell on. 2. tolove to distraction, togive in to all the whims of... .
.board,committee. . : anassociation of women, women'sclub.
.papa (father). .
.todrown, to bedrowning. to drown. : to lose foot and be drowning.
.chest, lower part ofthorax orbreast. : largechested. : a bulging chest (like a lobster). :brace, breastdrill. : topierce with... ,.
.: onebasket, two baskets, etc. coarse basket made of coconut leaves. : theyoungest, lastchild of family, youngest pig in litter (an insulting term).
.leafy,branchy, thick set (foliage).
.nativebrace (used formerly). : topierce with this instrument. |
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| | sound of escaping air or water. : gopff... pff... like bursting balloon. |
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| | to approach cautiously for the purpose ofstealing.
name of a plant having an edible bulbous root, resemblingtaro. Arum cordifolium. |
| | Arum cordifolium. name of a plant having an edible bulbous root, resembling thetaro (k). |
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| | receiving recompense for what one does. |
|
| | frequentative of: deformed. |
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| | frequentative of: to miss the mark. |
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| | frequentative of: much, strong as the wind. |
|
| | frequentative of: very bad. |
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| | frequentative of: awkward in throwing or spearing. |
|
| | frequentative of: thievish. |
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| | frequentative of: rich, encumbered with much luggage. |
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| | frequentative of: unduly wide. |
|
| | frequentative of: hesitating to shoot or throw. |
|
| | frequentative of: slow in doing or making. |
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| | frequentative of: skilled in fitting canoe planks. |
|
| | frequentative of: to practice incantations over a child. |
|
| | frequentative of: to persecute, abuse. |
|
| | ael.frequentative of: to perform incantations upon. |
|
| | frequentative of: to blackguard. |
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| | frequentative of: to claim land as one's own unjustly. |
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| | frequentative of: impartial in the distribution of food. |
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| | frequentative of: wont to carry off theivishly. |
|
| | frequentative of: to preside. |
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| | frequentative of: to measure. |
|
| | frequentative of: skillful in catching. |
|
| | frequentative of: to manipulate slowly. |
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| | frequentative of: doing quickly. |
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| | frequentative of: to work rapidly. |
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| | frequentative of: to assume a position for a fight. |
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| | frequentative of: skillful in hitting the mark. |
|
| | frequentative of: working rapidly. |
|
| | frequentative of: very light, not dense. |
|
| | frequentative of: to be negligent of a parent's wants. |
|
| | frequentative of: to accuse another of fault. |
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| | toentertain or treat kindly outwardly, but not at heart. |
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| | to act kindly at such times that it pays to do so, as a foster child in the presence of its parents. |
|
| | frequentative of: to be in a very humble or abject way. |
|
| | frequentative of.
tolie orsleep on the ground anywhere. . |
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| | tohold, as a child in the arms. |
|
| | Acanthurus triostegus (ll). big one;lancetfish (ll,sm). |
|
| | frequentative of: verdant, green, fresh. |
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| | skilful (at climbing especially), skilful in any, every way.
.of . worn out,finished, absolutely finished. |
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| | to be without knowledge, not toknow how or about. to know not, tounderstand not. |
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| | frequentative of: fast or caught as the hand. |
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| | frequentative of: wont to do nice and careful work. |
|
| | frequentative of: to be very particular about. |
|
| | frequentative of: to murmur,. to complain. |
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| | frequentative of: quarrelsome, e asily angered. |
|
| | frequentative of: unkind, ungrateful. |
|
| | having a fullbreast over the sternum. |
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| | abounding in the leaves of the. |
|
| | frequentative of: bent over. |
|
| | frequentative of: crooked. |
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| | able toturn over as an infant. |
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| | tocrave, to greatly relish. |
| | to be veryfond of... (food). |
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| | to have the head so low as to be in danger of falling headlong. : he fell headl ong. Acts 13:18. |
| | person or object or animal turnedupside down, or with head or front part down (aeroplane, bird, swimmer). : to put head lower than body. : it fellheadfirst. |
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| | the upper part of thethigh. theflesh of afowl on the breast bone. having prominent, largely developedhips.
abundle. to engage in making bundles. |
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| | fullyarmed, armed to the teeth. |
|
| | amat just begun, the first half of a mat. to begin braiding a mat. |
| | from . amat just commenced. : the woman who made the first mat.<myth>. |
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| | part ofabdomen around pelvis. : a certainlath at base of fronton in construction. |
|
| | cleverperfume maker, one knowing how to perfume oil. |
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| | n.
afish, the.
agame in which every one is to keep silent and not to move at all. to play the game of , to assemble.
an exclamation on hearing the report of agun. |
| | ashark with flat snout.
.cut short, cut close,flat nosed. : to cut short, to cut close. : the sky is calm and clear. : the sea is calm, no wind. : it is impossible to reach the end of the island (either because of strong wind or because of no wind).
.bang! exclamation imitating a detonation.
.agame, players are silent and immobile. to play at this game. : keep silent and don't move. : keepquiet! keepstill! don't move. |
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| | .thisthing which ... ,.
.anobligation,duty,bond,occupation,employment,debt. :obliged,tied,engaged,occupied,indebted. : we are indebted to the teacher. : I am not bound. : totie, toattach, tooblige, toengage, to be under anobligation, to bebound, to get intodebt, toborrow. : I want to borrow from you. :obligation,engagement,debt. : his debt isremitted. :fulfilling an obligation, paying a debt.
.light,lamp. (wick of lamp): lampwick. : lampglass. |
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| | :rock with pebbles around it. :hump on rock. |
|
| | apile of stones, coconuts, debris lined up, long barrage of... :idem. to make... |
|
| | (N.)basket, basket without lid. kinds: -- . (S.) etc. : to put... in provision basket. |
|
| | thing,object,affair,member,organ,matter,material,element,substance, personalbelonging,property,instrument,tool,machine,apparatus,utensil,result,report. : itcounts, it isgood, it isreal. : that doesn'tmatter, it isnothing at all. :merchandise. : warweapons. : areal thing,valuable. :essence,substance. : I am your thing, yourservant.
.hand,arm,wing,fin,propellor,hands (of clock or watch) etc. , etc.: some parts of hand: , etc.: parts of arm: , etc. : afoul! touching football by hand. : show hands,swear. :shake hands. servant,slave,employee. ,,, etc.
.to several compound words. |
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| | bars of canoe between and . |
|
| | ajest or attitude of dancer imitating flight of wings. : well, badly... : toimitate... well, badly.
astar. .
bird'swing, fish'sfin. |
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| | a coarse kind offood, tough and stringy. |
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| | generous, giving without counting, good measure. |
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| | carrying thearms a littlebent. a person carrying his arms a little bent. |
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| | afish,sole,flounder.
.: aladle.
.possession,ownership. touse, topossess. : thebeneficiary,owner,heir. n.v.:covetousness,<envy ? gwg>,desire to become rich. : to constitute possessor, heir, to give alegacy to..., towill to... |
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| | frequentative of: to use. |
|
| | tomiss the mark. a missing the mark. |
|
| | having white patches on skin of back of hands. |
| | a largeshark said to be dangerous (ll). |
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| | skilful on land only, not skilful at steering a canoe. : he is not a goodseaman. |
|
| | taking what belongs to others bymistake, a mild way of pointing out atheft. |
|
| | apygarg [antelope, sea-bird] . |
|
| | having a rising on the back of the lowerarm. a person having a rising on the back of the lower arm. |
|
| | Cypselurus suttoni (exocoetidae). flying fish. |
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| | not skilled in catching or holding. |
| | whosehands do not grip, who loses hold, lets go. |
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| | to engage inscratching theskin in abger, or gently. wrathful scratching. |
|
| | frequentative of. frequent wrathful scratching. |
|
| | afraid tohandle ortouch : hesitating to throw lest failing to hit, or in fear of hitting one standing near. hesitancy in throwing. |
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| | letting things slip from hand,butter fingers. : to treat as bad climber, etc. |
|
| | Cypselurus suttoni (exocoetidae). flying fish. |
|
| | 1. women'sclothes. 2.land, etc., given in compensation for assault of wife or daughter. : tocompensate husband or father for... |
|
| | tocover one's face with one's hands in order to hide one's confusion. |
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| | stirred to anger or quarrel with reference to a woman. |
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| | toquarrel with or assail a man in reference to a woman. |
|
| | 1. anincantation over a child (formerly). 2. thing, way, manner, conduct of a child,childish. : to treat as a child, todelude, toseduce, tofool, tobeguile, to makefun of, to commitsacrilege. |
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| | justappearing in the distance. |
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| | adisturbance arising from the unfaithfulness of the man. stirred to anger orquarrel as a woman in reference to aman. |
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| | to quarrel with or assail a woman with reference to a man. |
|
| | toinsult with rude, indecent words. |
|
| | :strongarms. having strong arms for rowing, throwing, etc. : toboast of the strength of, to bring into action the force of arms. |
|
| | ,. gods,Nemesis, personification of chastisement, accident, obstacle. : something kept me late. |
|
| | to claimland as one's own unjustly. a false or unjust claim to land. |
|
| | 1.frigatebird or other with large wings. 2. abnormally long arms. |
|
| | tosnatch or carry off thievishly. |
|
| | arrangement,organization,ordinance<decision -- gwg>. : toarrange, toregulate, tolay out, toorganize, torule, toadminister.<decide -- gwg>. : arrangement, organization,disposition,regulations,combination, etc. : theorganizer,chairman,president,administrator. |
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| | tomeasure, to adjust or set in order, to preside over as a moderator. |
|
| | thenose. : thebone of nose. : division betweennostrils. : the end of nose. : a sore nose means someone is speaking ill of you. |
|
| | a floweringtree (with strong smell), smell makes the nose swell up, fruit and flower are poisonous. Baringtonia Asiatica. |
|
| | quickly doing as in producingfire by rubbing sticks, or in fitting the planks of a canoe. |
|
| | Prognichthys albimaculatus (exocoetidae). flying fish. |
|
| | to make amistake in taking. totake by mistake or, without appearing to, tosteal. : to make... |
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| | totake down as a basket from a shelf. |
|
| | 1. a species offish with large fins (big ). Mugilidae sp.. 2. a species oftuna, medium sized, yellow tuna. |
|
| | light in weight, not heavy. |
|
| | workingrapidly. rapid work, rapidity in work. |
| | :quick,smart,agile with hands, accomplishing rapidly, agile. : tohurry, tohasten a work, to make someone hurry with work. make haste! . |
|
| | verylight, not dense, hence light. lightness, want of weight. |
|
| | ascar of aburn. to engage in burning scars. |
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| | to scar as the arm with burns. |
|
| | bad adjuster (used especially in construction of canoes for joining boards). . : for small things; : for canoes. |
|
| | red,vermilion (used specially for fruit, and more especially for pandanus fruit). : red, vermilion. : the fruits are red, ripe. : to letripen.
.: afeast,banquet, marriage feast.
.: tosimulate, tofeign, topretend. pretence. : he pretends to be kind. : he pretends to run away. : to pretend to ...
.tofall, totumble, tooverturn, toruin. decadence,want,turn to play (cards). : to fall, to tumble, tosuccumb, tosink down, tocollapse, togive away, to fall in, todie (S.), to bebeaten in combat, to fall away, to fall from one's rank, todeceive, todupe, to bescandalized, toabate. : he wassacked, put out of office<fired -- gwg>. : Ilost a day, Imissed my day. : togo or todrift towards the east, the west side. : tostumble, tostagger often. : to make fall, to throw down, toupset, toknock down, tosteer for,head for. scandalize,deceive,disconcert, tofoil. : todiscourage, todeceive. : you arediscouraging. : verydeceptive. : todisconcert. : deceptive manners. :scandal. : scandal giving. : excuse for not giving more. :syrup oftoddy (very thick) gets its name from the fact that it does not pour out but falls by bits. ,,. |
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| | : topretend to be God or acting as such, to make oneself God. |
|
| | toact orape the great or the rich. |
|
| | frequentative of: fully ripe, as the pandanus fruit. a fully ripe or red pandanus fruit, aredcolor.
wellcooked, as thicksyrup. |
|
| | tohasten to meet a coming friend. a hastening to meet a coming guest, awelcome.
towelcome a returning friend by hastening to meet him. |
|
| | the centre or highest palmleaf. |
|
| | to engage inescorting. the escorting of a person. |
|
| | thesting of ray or sword fish tied in a bunch to a long pole and used formerly as warweapon. |
|
| | :hoarseness. :hoarse. : to make hoarse, to talk, to sing or shout loudly (losing one's voice thereby). : I am hoarse calling you. |
|
| | suicide. : tocommit suicide, to neglect or cause the loss of something, to wish the loss or ruin of... |
|
| | to commitsuicide. to give a personpoison without his knowledge : to beguile one to his death or into trouble. |
|
| | to engage intyingcoconuts in bunches often each. a bunch of ten coconuts tied together. |
|
| | to tie coconuts in bunches of ten each. |
|
| | to engage inill treating a foster child. to be negligent of work in the harvest season. ill trearment of a foster child. neglect of harcesting. |
| | towaste, to have nocare of (food, harvest, children, etc.). : to waste, toneglect. . |
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| | to ill treat as a foster father his foster child. |
|
| | (fall of rectum)bottomfallen out of (basket, bag, etc.). : the bottom has fallen out. : to make... fall (used baskets, bags, utensils, etc.). |
| | protruding as the lowerbowel. |
|
| | adish consisting of grated coconut and toddy (). |
|
| | a person having a sharpchin. |
|
| | tosteer, todirect towards. : to direct the will towards. |
|
| | toaccuse another of fault in order to screen one's self. |
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| | to fall in love with, to be enamored of. |
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| | to aspire todeity, to pretend to be agod. the assuming to begod. |
|
| | boiled,scraped,coconut after having been squeezed in a strainer : the oil from the same. sufficiently boiled for squeezing as scraped coconut. |
| | 1.oil made from grated coconut. (S.). 2.residue of coconut after oil is extracted. : to treat coconut with this method. |
|
| | torebound against obstacles in succession. . |
|
| | to act as a man who is meanlyfed by another. |
|
| | tofeed away from home. the taking of one's meals away from home. |
|
| | todress up, to try to look fine. the attempt to show off in dress, assuming to be good looking. |
|
| | to assume to be a large landholder. |
|
| | thecord which attaches the sail to yards or those used to reef sails. : totie orreef sail by these. |
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| | to lash a sail to a spar. |
|
| | begging done in an abject way. to beg in a very humble or abject way. |
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| | ill treatment of a foster child. neglect of harvesting.
not wellmarried.
tofall upon. |
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| | tobesmear with filth, etc, to daub. |
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| | togo up, toascend, to go towards the sky or towards the east. : the sun is already up. |
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| | food distributed to donors in compensation. : |
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| | tospear by throwing, to transfix with a dart,. tobaste, tosew slightly with long stitches. |
|
| | : tomend. mended,patched.
.: a feeblewake of light, an intermittent paleglimmer, phosphorescent glimmer,spark. ,,,,, taukarokaro. aspark, aflame, aglimmer. |
|
| | rising or ascending, as a great volume of smoke. |
| | thick blacksmoke of damp wood, trailing, spreading out. : to make black smoke so. |
|
| | an ancient doublemat (ideal and imaginary) used as form of respect and tenderness towards a person to be honoured, honourable formula. : for your bed a large mat, your blanket lightning, your pillow a royal cushion. |
|
| | hungry. great and distressing hunger. |
| | to beshaking from weakness, hunger, tiredness. : to maketremble, to shake. . |
|
| | a sort of balletdance, imported from Samoa. |
|
| | a half-size coarsemat, made of coconut leaves, used for canoes (), placed on canoe at place of this name. |
|
| | evenlycut. a straight or evenrow as of trees or houses. |
|
| | tocut off evenly the hair in front or behind. |
|
| | tovisit by water or land. |
|
| | afish, the. tosquirt.
to go to a strange land. a visit to a strange land. |
| | afish,Jew fish,rockcod (poisonous). :idem. giant, enoromous species of... squint eyed,cross eyed. .
.. tojet, tospout, togush, tospurt out, tosquirt out.
.:land. togo from one island to another, totravel. ,,,. |
| | Promicrops lanceolatus. jewfish (thisrock cod grows to an enormous size but is not often caught; it is considered to be poisonous in all areas where poisonous fish have been found) (hh). |
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| | a certaindish, prepared from and grated coconut mixed. ,. |
|
| | beginning toooze in thin trickle. frequentative of. |
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| | a long brace for supporting the prow of acanoe when beached. |
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| | tobrace the end of a canoe when beached. |
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| | tobreak against, tobump against, toknock against directly. tofall directly on. : toaim straight and arrive directly on... |
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| | tolean against, topress on, tostick to, tohit directly. : apply directly to... tostick to, tomark strongly. : what is said applies directly to him... hits the nail on the head. |
|
| | a variety offood, a delicacy made withtaro. : to prepare, to cook this dish. |
|
| | failing to make land, as a canoe. |
|
| | assembled outside for want of room.
hungry. hunger.
apark . pan leaves for enriching a patch. goneashore, as a boar on the beach. |
| | accumulation,heap,pile,crowd,conglomeration,mob. accumulated,piled up,grouped,crammed. : toaccumulate, topile up, togroup.
.debris,driftwood, many things heaped or scattered. : heap of rubbish lying across. : tree trunks stranded. : the canoe is stranded crosswise. : fig. an abandonedrejected person. .
.pandanusleaves tied in long bundles made into coils and put around taro plants.
.hunger,leanness,thinness. : to behungry, to befamished,...starved, ...thin, ...slim, ...hollow, ...empty. : to cause hunger, make hungry. :idem. to make thin. : time offamine. |
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| | trunks of trees stranded on beach. . |
|
| | weak with hunger (trembling). ... |
|
| | ashark (general term for the genus). a certainstar. tofaint from the sight of blood. |
| | Gynglymostoma ferrugineum (y). shark (sm). |
|
| | to take, to use a strong man toreinforce a team. |
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| | to hold in the arms as a child. |
| | carry in hollow. to have orcarry in bended arms, on breast in hollow of chest. : he has an empty stomach, ... is starving. |
|
| | suffering from the want of sufficientfood. |
|
| | the top or leafy part ofbabai or taro cut close to the root for replanting. |
| | top of plant, top oftaro for replanting. : tocut the head off, to cut the neck of, tobehead (person), totruncate. : taro head. |
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| | a floatingstump of a tree having roots visible, like top of taro cut off (obsolete). |
|
| | ahoop orcollar of and shells woven or intertwined. |
|
| | 1. asling. 2. warrior'sbelt of string or skin of ray. : tohurl with sling and stones, topelt with stones.
.hollow,empty (inside or under). : without anyresistance or spring or energy,soft,flabby,limp,inconsistent,indolent,incapable, good for nothing. : well-risen bread. : doing nothing worthwhile. : you are good for nothing. : to take away energy, to cause weakness of will. : to treat as good for nothing.
.fish,sea bass. Varicola louti.
.voice,speech,words,recommendations. :listen to the teacher,obey him. : take care of the life of the young child. : having a good voice ... a bad voice. :stentor, loud and shrill voiced. : sickly voice. : strong voice. :idem. :hoarse. :shrill voice. :grumbling voice. :cross voice,angry voice. : hollow,nasal voice. |
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| | Ocean Island, rocky island where phosphate has been mined since 1900, discovered 3rd January, 1801. |
|
| | speaking with a loud voice. |
|
| | doing something with no interest but to accommodate another. the doing of something with no other intrest than to accomodate another. |
|
| | speaking with a nasal voice. |
|
| | speaking with a poor voice, speaking illy. |
|
| | speaking with a squeaking voice. |
|
| | speaking with a pleasant voice, speaking with kindness. |
|
| | hard, smoothstone like granite. . |
|
| | speaking with a trembling voice. a person speaking with a trembling voice. |
|
| | speaking with a clear, attractive voice.
a person speaking with a clear artractive voice. |
|
| | tospeak a foreign language, to speak with a foreignaccent. |
|
| | speaking with a small feeble voice. a persos speaking with a small feeble voice. |
|
| | . :totality,total. wholly,fully,exhausted,finished. adv. :all,entirely,integrally. : they all got up. : it is all rotten. :totally,entirely,completely. : toexhaust, tofinish, to put together. : entirely, all of us, all of them, all, all things. : there is your food, finish it all up. : full assembly, reunion which all must attend. : thelast. : to finish up, to exhaust.
.Altarbread,hosts. . |
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| | to maketotal, to take all, to put together, toassemble, toadd up, to get at it together (a work). : all of you be there. : everyone is assembled around the corpse in the . |
|
| | Chanos chanos (ll). milkfish at 8 inches (sm,ll). |
| | awa. Chanos chanos. milkfish (under 8"). |
|
| | tospread about, or to be perceived, as an odor. |
|
| | a largecetacea (wicked). myth. cetaceous manogre, living at north end of Tarawa, devoured passengers off canoes. . |
|
| | family Mugilidae. mullet; small ones (sm,ll). |
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| | n..
.ahole,cavern,excavation, hiding place,refuge,den,lair,net,eel pot,snare,mosquito net. : to hide oneself in ... to take refuge in ... the action of ... : tohide, topoke, tostuff into a hole, etc.
.: the hole of ... den of ... to have thecustom of ...habit of ...craze,inclination to ... : habit of telling lies. : ... ... : I am in the habit of telling lies.
.:ignorance. ignorant. to beinept,incapable. |
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| | ignorant of etiquette,rude, badly brought up. . |
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| | having craze forindecent touching, doing so habitually. |
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| | always looking for better, hard to please,choosy,capricious (about food or work). : to do carefully according to one's caprice or taste. |
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| | a large fishtrap formerly used in deep water. It was weighed down in the sea and pulled up by a hook called . |
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| | (vulgar word) a large spherical fishtrap with opening on top. |
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| | knowing a great number ofsongs (inexhaustible source... ). . |
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| | unskillful. unskillfulness. |
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| | ahole. full of holes, having a hole, leaky. |
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| | tocomplain abour a borrower or express misgivings concerning something loaned. |
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| | compasing or rehearsing many chants. thecomposing or rehearsing of chants. |
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| | to do a piece of work nicely. |
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| | to be very particular abour, tocriticise. great particularity, severe criticism. |
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| | completelydisappeared,lost amongst ... under ... in ... hard to find among, well hidden. : to push down, to completelyhide. : to hide, to make disappear in, ... under, ... among. |
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| | "what sort of a chin have you?" an expression of displeasure at a child's conduct. |
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| | having a sharp promectingchin. a person having a sharp projecting chin. |
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| | asacred place, covered with gravel and enclosed, used forsorcery and composing songs and dances, cemeteries and family tombs. |
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| | a fallen youngcoconut, eaten by a rat. eaten out, as a young coconut by a rat. |
| | ahollow (with opening) in a tree, in a coconut, empty cask, etc. : hollowsound, nasal sound, empty. : nasal voice. : to make hollow, empty, to give a hollow sound, tone. . : to pump. pump.
.dust having pleasant smell (from rotting timber, esp. ). |
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| | abranch<frond - gwg> orleaf of coconut. : undeveloped leaves of young coconut trees. |
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| | all,total,sum,amount,block. :entire,compact,solid. : to make the total of, to put together, togroup. : to make compact, hard, frozen. |
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| | acorpse, a corpse of some days, a skeleton. |
| | skeleton,bones, place where skeletons are kept, place of abode to which one always returns. adrawing,design,figure,image,picture,sketch,diagram,photo. skeleton-like,emaciated,thin. : todraw, topaint, tophotograph. . :painter,artist,photographer. : to make skeleton-like, wasted, emaciated. |
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| | apole some eight feet long to the end of which a fish is tied and with which the salt water is beaten to attract the fish for capture<fsg>. |
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| | ahouse with an elevated floor, a platform, adais. drooping as the fringe of a mat, or the tail of a turkey after a strut.
to be spread out or along.
crooked. |
| | a plain elevated surface,bunk,seat,litter,stretcher,table,platform,stage,floor, construction on pillars, a means oftransport, embarcation, canoe, ship, boat, bicycle, etc. : I amtravelling by ship. : athrone. : analtar. :platform for fishing. : judgementseat. :flat, very little slope. : to use as means of transport.
.bent,curved,inflected,twisted,crooked,askew,deviated,unjust,meandering. : very crooked, very bent. : (sup.) tobend, toinflect, totwist.
.todiminish, to getless, toabate (rain, sickness). : the rain abates.
.spread out,stretched out on ground. : to spread out, to stretch out, tolie at full length. : I will spread out the copra (to dry). |
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| | flat, not steep as a roof. aplatform for drying fish in the sun. |
| | aplatform on posts, ashelf for drying fish or other food, ... to put crockery and other utensils on. |
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| | Lutianus sp. (ll). snapper (sm); on Butaritari and Makin. |
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| | an elevatedplatform which adjoins the from above. . |
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| | bent in two,crooked, bent. . : tobend in two, to bend, totwist, todistort. :change the meaning of the words, make a false report. : bent up with pain. : bent with laughter. |
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| | head gear,hat,helmet,bonnet,mitre, etc. : to use as ..., towear a ...
.a smallbasket made of coconut leaves. (thrown away after use, is also used to wrap food going into oven). : . : to put in ... to roll up fish in leaves ready for cooking. idem.
.custom of ...vice ... beingwont to. : one who tells lies constantly. ....
.;untied,detached,unlaced,undone, in pieces. set atliberty,absolved,dissolved. :discouraged. : coming away, getting undone,disbanded altogether. : toundo, tountie, tounknot, tounravel, todetach, to take to pieces, todisband, to let loose, toloosen, torelax, toexempt, todispense, toacquit, todissolve, toabsolve, toexplain. : acquit one's debt. :forgive sin, offence. :explain,comment. : toundo completely. : to ask pardon of ...
.smallfish, smallfry.
.a deep-seafish. Acanthocybium solandri. : tofish for ... species -- . |
| | Acanthocybium solandri (ll). wahoo (sm). |
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| | formerly a warhelmet made from the skin of (a fish). |
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| | chafed, as a rope of fish line.
intensive. very low. |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
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| | a certain kind ofstakes at cards. special way of putting down stakes inpoker. |
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| | tofish with a seine and on the ocean flat<fsg>. a mode of fishing. |
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| | 1. a smallshell, conical-shaped. Troque aigu. 2. a smallhat made of pandanus leaves and hair, fishing hat. |
| | Trochus (gastropod). snail. |
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| | . towalk uneasily, unsteadily, to go or do with hesitation or difficulty. awkward,slow. : to make. : to behesitating, without initiative, waiting. |
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| | upset,capsized, turned over, covered over as an earth-oven with mats. |
| | a species ofgrass,groundcherry. Physalis angulata (orminima).
.:upset,upside down,capsized,inside out, face downwards,turned over. : the fire is covered up with a mat. : the canoe capsized. : to place upside down, to turn over, to cause to capsize.
.fig. to bebending over, to beabsorbed in, to be busy at, to be working hard at ... : to do, toaccomplish (a task) without relaxing, to be assiduous at ...
.five cards of same colour inpoker. : five cards in succession of value.<straight--gwg>. |
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| | to give one's business close attention. |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
| | a species of large , deep seafish. . |
| | Acanthocybium sp. (ll). wahoo (sm). |
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| | . coconut leaf or dead wood, rotten and wet, notburning well. |
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| | tochat,gossip,tattle, talk idly. talk, chat, gossip, tattle, foolish conversation. |
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| | totrickle.
low because not fully grown, as a grove of coconut trees or a patch of . |
| | :perspiration running, flowing. : to make ...
.n.a. and. low,low lying. : helowers the voice, speaks with less assurance. : to lower, to let ... to hush up, to stop. |
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| | to seemdisgusted with everything. : to give disgust ... |
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| | aseed (like chestnut) brought by current. |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
| | kind of large (oceanfish). |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
| | a species of .<fish -- gwg>. |
| | Acanthocybium solandri (ll). wahoo (sm); small one (ll). |
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| | a bad climber,awkward and heavy. : his foot slipped and he fell. |
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| | to do gently or slowly. . |
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| | Caranx sexfasciatus (ll). kingfish (sm); big one (ll). |
| | Caranx sexfasciatus. largejack. |
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| | dirt,grime,filth,stain,impurity. muddy,blotted,spotted,impure,filthy,dusty. : extremely dirty,unclean, very filthy. : to dirty, to soil, to stain. : that soils or dirties. : to dirty or scratch paper, to efface writing or make it illegible.
.tohurry, tohasten, to bequick, toexpedite, toaccelerate, to doquickly. : hurry (with your hands). : hurry! |
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| | torejoice, tohurry to rejoice while there is time; (for ex. before a separation or departure). . |
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| | Pempheris oualensis (ll). sweeper (sm). |
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| | Caranx melampyges (Carangidae). jack. |
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| | . aheap, apile, astack, anassembly, acrowd,swarm,shoal. : toassemble, togroup, tocrowd. : to put in heaps, togather, to assemble, to store up. |
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| | pulse, as beans, peas, etc . ii Sam: 17:28. |
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| | the forelock cropped or banged above the etes<hair>.
assembled in numbers. to comb as thesurf, toflow out suddenly. |
| | : tospill, topour out, tooverflow, toflow, toscatter, toshed, toempty. hangingloose (hair),flowing. ,. : to spill of flow on, to go in crowds towards, spill over, to fall on, to flood. : tospill.
.1.attic,provision box,hutch,silo, small box,safe. 2.overflow,hole, depression where water stays. 3. : forepart of canoe which dips up water in rough seas. 4. a preparation of coconut and molasses. 5. : hair cut with fringe. |
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| | theleaf proper ofbabai, not including the stem or stalk. |
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| | tribe,clan,family,reunion,assembly of ... tounite, toassemble by ... : to treat as one of the family or clan. : you don't give me a favourable treatment. you don't count me as one of the family or clan. : togroup by clan or family, to treat as member of ...
., smallcase. topack, toarrange, toprepare for a voyage, to pack up. : to arrange, toclassify, to prepare to pack, to put in order. : get ready! |
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| | afish, the.
toresound as a coconut that is broken in two by a blow. |
| | Epinephelus kohleri (ll). rock codd (sm). |
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| | toresound as a large coconut when being cracked ipen. |
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| | a smallhouse,hut,cabin,hovel. : astay at home, amisanthrope. : to have, tolive in, to appropriate a house.
.anythingfaded, leaves dried for manure. :dried up, faded,withered,tanned,brown,sunburnt,blackened. ,: verydark. : person with dark skin. : aNegro, person of dark race. : to make black, ... toblacken. : leaves dried for fertilizing,compost. : trunk of rotten pandanus, dust of which is used to fertilize taro.
.butter. .
.aboiler,saucepan. ,. |
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| | a case made of pandanus leaf in which tobake a fish. to engage in inserting fish in a for baking. |
| | leaves used to roll fish or other food in while cooking. : toroll food in leaves.
.sheath for knife (S.). |
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| | poor,worthless, not having much that is nourishing as certain lobsters. |
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| | . tomanure taro with withered leaves.
.todwell in a certain house. |
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| | sand stone, crumblingrock, soft ... . shallow, needing a heap of sand to cover; for ex. toheap sand over a hole where one has buried something because hole was not deep enough, appearing just over horizon. . |
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| | the older of two combatants. |
| | thebetter of two rivals. in good form. |
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| | . leaves growing alternately on stem (not corresponding). |
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| | measure, and take. takemeasure. a measure. |
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| | apacket,parcel,bundle,armful. : parcel of things, lot of people. :waves very near each other. : to put in packets, topack, tobundle together.
.tofold up work, togather up one's belongings, toarrange.
..crumbled,creased. crease,wrinkle,ruffle. : to put in disorder, torumple, tocrumple. |
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| | beat wings, beating of wings,hit hands on hips. |
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| | . to go along bent down, tobenddown, to reduce height, tostoop, tobow down. . : to make go ... to go before bending down in respect. . |
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| | to take refuge in or with. |
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| | weak in throwing or striking. |
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| | the pit of thestomach. hit in the pit of the stomach, having pain in the pit of the stomach. |
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| | a species ofsea urchin covered with poisoned spikes like needles. |
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| | not setting well as asail whose leech-line has been overstretched. |
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| | a species offish; , . ,idem. |
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| | black and threatening as an approaching squall. |
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| | bottle. . ,,.
., etc. therising of these stars, just before sunrise. theirsetting, just after sunset. |
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| | name ofTridacoconute while small.
.a small fightingfish,puffer fish. Canthigaster. species or names -- . : Gilbertese national game for children and adults. : catching with coconut shell (). : to take ...
. (S.) a veneratedpersonage.
.. toslide against, ... on. (more used). : to cause to ... |
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| | the under and front portion of ashark. |
| | 1. astar. 2. flesh of underneath part of big fish. |
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| | : things in aheap, inpackets, aparcel of ... to put in a corner (as a mat in course of weaving). : to beginweaving a mat. |
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| | around, aloop, acrown, acircle, alasso, a slipknot. grouped,assembled. . : Crown-of-Thorns. :royalcrown. : crown of flowers. : The people are assembled. . baua: tosurround, toencircle, togo around, ... tocatch, to take with a slip knot, a lasso, tocrown. : He shall be crowned with glory.
: Something momentous but unknown will happen to me, ... to you.
.vow . .
.wood or treetrunk hollowed out (used as rat trap or basket). |
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| | afish, the young of . Mugilidae..
.to make up one's mind to ... todecide to ...
.: abeggar. tobeg, toenvy, to look at with envy, tocovet any food (as does near latrines on beach) (an insult).
.. tocatch with a lasso, to take as one's own. |
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| | covered with blood,bloody,bleeding. : woman who had a large, red birthmark on body.<myth>. |
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| | covered withblood as one severely wounded or hurt, very bloody. |
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| | looking with longing eyes as on the food of others. |
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| | apound sterling, a pound . |
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| | royalcrown. : to crown with ... : to be crowned king. |
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| | to hold on to wrongfully, to unjustly take possession of. |
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| | to drive down a gun-wadding, toram. |
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| | . a special kind ofstring binding for joining the and in the outrigger of canoes, and for certain pieces of timber in building. sentimentalattachment,attract by currying favours. : a person skilful at making this binding. : to bind carefully. |
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| | afish, the. dried to an oily condition as the kernel of the . |
| | Lutianus vaigiensis. yellowsnapper (a yellow-gray snapper with dark red on the dorsal fin, a dark tail and yellow anal, pelvic and pectoral fins; It is a common species and is not eaten everywhere. |
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| | Lutianus kasmira (ll). snapper (sm). |
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| | Lutianus monostigmus. spotsnapper (a creamy white snapper with a large spot on its side; It can be very poisonous, but at present appears to be safe to eat in most places) (hh).
.Mulloidichthys samoensis (y). goatfish (sm). |
| | Lutjanus monostigmus. snapper.
Mulloidichthys samoensis (mullidae). goat fish. |
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| | aacute;ib'akee.tomiss the mark. a missing the mark. |
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| | . :for he has gone.
.1. mark of sup. , etc. 2.coarseness,redness. nasty,vile. . rude,coarse, vile,odious,vicious,evil,unpleasant,insupportable,wicked,mischievous,bad,ugly. to certain words --,. : wicked face. : bad companion. :ill mannered. : to act badly, to behave badly, odiously. : how wicked! what conduct! : to make oneself odious, to show viciousness. : to treat as such.
.loincloth (mat),lavalava. : towear a lavalava. |
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| | bear .
beginning to enlarge as in pregnancy. |
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| | frequentative of to stagger. |
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| | frequentative of to skim along. |
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| | frequentative of to float. |
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| | tocarry a load with difficulty or for a long time. . |
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| | frequentative of to growl , to roar, to hem. |
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| | frequentative of to work. |
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| | frequentative of to work. |
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| | frequentative of to be employed, to be busy, to serve, to work. |
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| | tocover or dress with a waist cloth ormat. |
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| | to engage in stripping off the leaves of youngcoconut trees. the work of stripping off the dying leaves of young coconut trees. |
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| | to strip off the leaves of young coconut trees. |
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| | 1. agame accompanied with song. 2. hollowlog, hollowed-out log. :noise of tam-tam. |
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| | agame (consisting of tying all around one so as to look terrifying). |
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| | frequentative of tangled. |
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| | frequentative of to be very particular. great particularity. |
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| | game in which one calls and the other . |
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| | frequentative of: soiled. |
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| | frequentative of: to admire one's self. |
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| | a pile ofstones on a flat collected as a snare for fish.
toskim along as a thin plate when thrown. |
| | 1. something tied up,parcel of food,. 2.packet of bait tied in under canoe, or under water, or in a fish trap. to put or to keep in packet, toenvelop.
.: aheap of stones piled up so as to attract fish and then surrounded by a net or mat, finally the stones are thrown out one by one so as to take fish. : to surround the with fishing net.
.:swayingmovements or balancing movements as a person drunk, a kite, or a stone skidding over water, etc. |
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| | name of twin ancestors often taken for one person.<myth>. |
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| | 1. a species of largecetacea. 2. a mark of three points in card playing. 3. a small, flat, ovalfish,sole. |
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| | . tofloat, to float on surface. : to make float, to float, to put a floater on ... |
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| | to lay aside for an expected guest. |
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| | kabka.matter in theeye. having matter as the eye. |
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| | toscrape pandanus fruit on a fixed scraper. |
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| | (dirty word). todirty with excrements. . |
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| | . a certain kind ofsorcery formerly practiced by children, supposed to give them vigour. toinsult with rude words. ,idem. |
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| | jealousy of a woman for rival. : that woman is jealous of ... : |
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| | afix (used only with . it is idiomatic. .
ke.apeck, one fourth of a bushel . |
| | idiomatic word used only with , meaning afall which takes the breath away. .
.1. apick (tool). . 2.peck (measure). .
.throat,neck, hollow under Adam's apple. : tocut orstab throat,, tobleed animal. . : takesbreath away. : provisions exhausted, to be in want. |
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| | apig . given to much eating like a pig. |
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| | tocough. a cough, a coughing. |
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| | tohem, toroar, as a lion. hemming, roaring, a hem, a roar. |
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| | giving advice but doing nothing oneself. a boringadviser. |
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| | labour, assiduouswork, atask to accomplish, works. : to work, to labour. ,idem. : to urge to work, toincite ...
.: hollowsound of box, drum, log, etc.,noise of this kind. to sound like a drum, a box (having hollow sound). : to make, to sound. bang!boom! : tobeat it. . |
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| | log hollowed out for divers uses, rattrap,mould for winding leaves for ,drum for giving signals, etc. |
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| | ripecoconut, coconuts. ,. ripe, hard, giving a full sound. : it issure,certain,evident. : he ishard hearted,insensible. a. :plentiful,rich in coconuts. : small but brave, solid, resisting. : to let it ripen, harden. wait for evidence, confirmation. : a game of knocking coconuts by rolling along ground to meet and see which is most resisting. : togather ...,. :splitting ..., making copra.
.paint,painting. . to paint. : to paint it. |
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| | bent over under a heavy load. (Kaure). |
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| | wide as a canoe, having much beam. |
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| | . asound, a hollow sound. : to make hollow sound. |
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| | nibn.abounding in ripecoconut. a ripecoconut whose kernel is unusually hard. . |
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| | ornamentalboard along top edge of canoe. |
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| | n/roro.a whose husk is dry and about to fall. fully ripe as acoconut. |
| | a ripecoconut with husk getting black. |
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| | a ripecoconut whose kernel is unusually hard. . |
| | a ripecoconut with very tough kernel. |
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| | <bot>husk of coconut for making string. operations: :retting the . : taking it out of retting pit. : beating to clean it. : tohackle it. : to arrange ready for twisting. : twist the on thigh to make string. |
| | an Arorae word for a fish, described as a yellow fish like ahawkfish (ll). |
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| | to prolong a residence in. one's owncountry. |
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| | showing refusal, disdain, scorn. no go! be blowed! never! bother! ! : to say to, torefuse, toinsult. : act of ...
.a variety ofshells. :whitish ... :shiny. |
| | Streptopinna saccata (i). a thin bivalvularshellfish (k). |
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| | a certain kind ofloincloth, tied to the mast of canoe over asflag of a certain clan. ,. |
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| | bell. .
.atree bearing edible berries. Figus tinchoria. fruit of this tree. varieties -- . : a little (something no bigger than the fruit of ). ,. |
| | Ficus tinctoria Forst.. fig (sp,z). |
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| | dark skinned,blackish,black,tanned. : to make, to cause ...
.multiple, close together,frequent (sound),swarming. : all speaking together. : the windvibrations,humming,buzzing, vibrating. : toswarm on, toinvade. |
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| | roroa.toswarm over food as ants. |
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| | gecko,lizard. foetus. : full of lizards. . : one who isafraid, frightened of small thing (as gecko). : oftimid temperament.
.wrasse,fish. Labroides dimidiatus.
an island in south Gilberts, discovered in 1827 by Captain Clerk. Beru warriors formerly conquered all islands of group except Makin. Their descendants are found in all islands at present. : all Beru is there, i.e. all the high families of the island are assembled, a general assembly. |
| | Labroides dimidiatus (y,ll). wrasse (sm). |
| | Labroides bicolor. wrasse.
Lepidodactylus lugubris (diurnally active). Gehyra mutilata (nocturnal). Gehyra oceanica (nocturnal). all smallgeckos. |
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| | tobet, tobid. : to make a bet. : to add more, to bet more heavily. |
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| | jammed, as a finger between two boxes. |
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| | a kind ofshelf in house to put things on. |
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| | afloat. : to float, to float on surface, todrift away in floating. : to make ..., tolaunch a ship, put to sea. : he put his canoe in the water. :buoyant.
.: the fibrous part ofpandanus fruit, left after sucking (used as fuel when dry). : pandanus grown from . youngest child (insult). .
.placenta.
.: the ace ofspades.
.bass (voice) . |
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| | . fibrouscore of fruit, thrown away after being sucked. : to leave only ..., to suck to the fibre. |
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| | ecstaticpose of dancer, arms extended, eyes fixed. : to make ... |
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| | . todrift,float away, to get lost at sea. : the front part of the canoe drifts from proper course. : to make or let goadrift. |
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| | toughfood removed from the mouth after having been chewed.
tochew tough food and remove the toughest part. |
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| | islet of Tarawa, southeast end, commercial capital of group, port. |
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| | superlative of. . tolook at with admiration,admire oneself at length. |
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| | heavy laden, staggering under a load. |
| | bent,stooped under a heavy burden, difficulties, etc. ... |
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| | to show sign of disgust for a bad smell or something hateful. :what astench! : to turn one's nose up at something. |
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| | a ruffled ornamental edging at the neck or border of a garment. |
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| | to engage in twistingcoconutfiber.
frequentative of: to spin, to twist. |
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| | frequentative of: to braid. |
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| | frequentative of: to carry news. |
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| | frequentative of: to run. |
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| | frequentative of: to grow rapidly. |
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| | frequentative of: to engage in making rope. |
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| | frequentative of: to repeatedly turn horizontally, to often change as the mind. |
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| | to slip away before the arrival of one who comes to seek help. |
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| | : to pass at a distance, or without seeing one another. |
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| | whitesand, the sandybeach, sandy land without verdure. |
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| | a variety of the a very largefish. |
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| | a youngcoconut with well developed kernel, but soft, a . being in the stage, the kernel being well developed, but soft. |
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| | the youngestchild in a family. |
| | aspect,look,appearance. . ,.
.youngest, last born. : my last child. (joke or insult),. : youngest child who supplants its elders in any way. . |
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| | a man having ways of a woman. . |
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| | a woman with manners of a man. . |
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| | 1. ;myth. person who got buried to become a coconut tree, a coconut tree grew out of his skull, and , who had rejected him was now united to him by drinking the young coconuts and wearing a grass skirt made from leaves of this tree. 2. afish (kind of ),trigger fish. |
| | Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus (balistidae). triggerfish. |
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| | mannish as a woman.
a masculine woman. |
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| | tosearch for something that shall give a pleasantodor to oil. |
| | to make last preparations before setting out, before moving, to finish weaving mat, toweave edge of mat, to look here and there for used to perfume oil. |
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| | to engage in searching for coconut oil perfumes. |
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| | toseek orsearch for as things which may give a pleasant fragrance to coconut oil when boiled. to subject the wind to an incantation that it may prove favorable. |
| | . : tochoose, toselect, to prepare by selecting (word used much in magic). |
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| | to bring orlead whales ashore. |
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| | atree in great demand for outrigger of canoe on account of buoyancy, used also as floats on fishing nets. Thespesis. |
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| | tochant and gesticulate while sitting. chanting and gesticulating while sitting, acall, asummons. . |
| | poem sung and mimicked in sitting position.
.anincantation to get back a woman (done in turning a very rapidly and allowing the wind to whistle into the opening). : her whistles (the unfaithful one will come back). : to do this incantation. :idem. |
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| | . tospin, to make native string.
notorious King of Abemama, died Nov. 1891. R. L. Stevenson was his guest for two months in 1889. |
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| | : offensivesmell,stench (stronger than ). : toinfect, to spread smell. : to infect ... to treat as ... |
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| | torun here and there like an imbecile. |
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| | torun hither and thither. |
| | torun here and there, towander about, to be always on the move, to get off the subject. : to make run ... wander. |
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| | : toelope, to run away with, to take away, topilfer and run away with. : the girl has eloped, run away with ... |
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| | tomeet orpass quickly (like shooting stars). |
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| | to habitually lodhe in many different places. |
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| | . a misleadingbet. to put down a big bet in spite of a bad hand of cards. : todisappear in an unknown way (person and food, etc.). |
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| | torun away ( followed by ), metaphorically, to disappear as food, quickly. |
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| | tosteer towards the land. . . |
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| | torun after, to be too late, tomiss chance. . |
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| | . toleave behind, to run away from, to run from, toabandon. : I was left behind ... abandoned. |
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| | to make arope by twisting the strands together. |
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| | toturn around horizontally. |
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| | tohide away when about to be asked to work. a hiding away when about to be asked to work. |
| | totrick, tododge, topretend, toequivocate, to get analibi, change the subject of conversation so as to get out of something, or to save face. : to change procedure, ... place, toelude by stratagem, toinvert the matrix. |
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| | to avoid labor by hiding away when about to be asked to work. |
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| | notjoining orfitting together properly, inconsistent. inconsistency in speech. |
| | opposition,contradiction. tocontrary, toinverse, tooppose (backwards). : to act in opposition, to act contrariwise. .
tofalsify, tofake, to place, to say, or do in opposite way, thewrong way, tocontradict, to change meaning, toinvert. |
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| | toobscure or mix up one's words, to make inconsistent remarks. |
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| | . Gallicolumba erythroptera. grounddove (The coloring is typically darkish grey and white; The head, neck, back and upper breast are grey with a purplish and greenish sheen or irridescence; The secondary wing feathers are mainly dark grey and the primaries and tail feathers mainly white; The abdomen is white, often speckled with grey and the under tail-coverts, white. The short bill is dark grey with a small whitish operculum at the base; The legs and feet are coral red, or purplish red. Some birds have less white than others, and hardly any two are exactly alike)<bird> (aa). |
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| | fat about the intestines of a healthyfish. having healthy fat about the intestines as a fish. |
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| | to appropriate aknife, to own a knife, an iron, etc., to use as a knife or as an iron tool. |
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| | a general term formetals other than iron and steel, as tin, zinc, copper, and brass but not lead. |
| | . anything of thinmetal, not precious; for ex.tin,zinc, tins,cans, etc. : to put in tins. |
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| | ,: togather together, toassemble, to puttogether. ,,,, etc.
.ablow,stroke. tohit, tothump, toknock, totouch, tohurt, to get hit. : he got hit in the face. : the fish istainted,bad,deteriorated. : to hit, to hurt, tobeat. : totap on, to beat with repeated blows. : cuttingsteps on coconut tree for climbing. :cutnotches, holes. idiom.,. : etc. blows which I, you, he, etc., gives. : the blows which I, you, he, receive.
.contact,meeting,fight,combat. : abattle, awar. : to be in contact, totouch, tomeet, tofight with or against. : the merry making is in full swing. : to put in contact, to make touch, tounite.
.equality,equivalence,accord,agreement. : mutual agreement. : all religions are thesame. equal,like,similar,same,matched,paired. ,. : to make equal, toequalize, to make the same.
.togo towards ... tocome, toarrive. : ... goes towards the north, south, west, east. : he isgone. :come here. : where do you come from? where have you been? : it is yourtime (yourturn).
.price,value,cost,wage,compensation,reward,answer. : my, your, his price. : the price of it. : tobuy, toexchange, toreward, tocompensate, to makeamends for, to answer. |
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| | rheumatism in arms or hands. : rheumatism of legs. an abnormal heat in body, extremities burning hot. . : toshake hands, tojoin hands. ,. |
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| | cheap, low priced. . . : tolower, to put down the price. |
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| | togather or put coconuts together. . |
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| | : (closed and stuck) the sky and the earth were stuck together until lifted the dome of heaven (myth of Creation). |
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| | small sizedtaro, cut in four pieces only. : cut in two pieces. :cut infour. |
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| | , etc. the fight, etc., ison. . |
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| | to trade inoil. trading in oil. |
| | tocheat in card playing (by changing or exchanging cards).
.trade inoil (as formerly). |
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| | heat especially at night. uncomfortablywarm when trying to sleep.
tobuy, tosell, totrade. trade, shopping, buying, barter. |
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| | todeal in, to treat as merchandise, to keep a store of ... |
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| | tofall prostrate on the face, tobow down the head. a low bowing forward of the head. |
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| | frequentative of : to pat. |
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| | frequentative of: to sell, to buy, to trade. |
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| | frequentative of: having the smell of fire. |
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| | frequentative of: fragrant. |
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| | frequentative of: fragrant, of a delightful odor. |
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| | frequentative of: bad smelling. |
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| | frequentative of: to fail in procuring because seeking too late. |
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| | frequentative of: frequently turning aside from a certain work. |
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| | frequentative of: to engage in excavating a hole for a tree or plant. |
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| | frequentative of: to shut, to mend. |
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| | amask (European). Mak. Butar. (S.), (N.). |
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| | flattened out as a mass of soft food. |
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| | frequentative of: to sail, to go to sea. |
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| | . astonishment,surprise. astonished, surprised to hear something new. to be surprised, to pretend to be surprised, tofeign ignorance or innocence. : to speak about something surprising. |
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| | totalk about something new, surprising, mysterious. : what strange or mysterious thing are you talking about? |
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| | not well finished, badly joined, bringing too small a price. highprice or unreasonable selling.
tosearch after, to look up. |
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| | wind coming on wrong side of sail, or from aft. ,,. : toassail from behind. . : the coconut was opened at the end. |
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| | to make abattue, todrive everything in front, to drive fish into a net. |
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| | aweed,stonecrop. Portulaca oleacera andlutea.
.odour,smell,emission,exhalation. : to emit an odour, ... smell. : it smells, exhales around. : the smell disappears. : to make ...
.unlucky atfishing, returning empty handed. : you had no luck (chance)? no, I hadn't. : to have taken nothing at all. : we had no luck (Banaba). |
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| | theodour of flowers. tosmell good, like Nei Autima who bedecked herself with flowers. |
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| | . thesmell of old dusty things. |
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| | refreshing as certainodors. a refreshing odor. |
| | exhaling an agreeablesmell. to have an ... |
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| | having a sour or fermentedsmell. the odor of fermentingkarewe. |
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| | having thesmell of a burningcoconut kernel. the odor of burning coconut kernel. |
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| | Lutianus monostigmus. spotsnapper (hh); on Butaritari and Makin (ll). |
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| | Lutianus bohar (ll). snapper (sm); juvenile (ll). |
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| | badsmelling. a bad smell. |
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| | thesmell of water in whichperfume has been put, or in which a perfumed person has bathed. |
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| | offensive insmell (a polite term). |
| | a very badsmell. superlative of. |
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| | agame, in which a ball () is kicked and kept off the ground. |
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| | a certainpost in a council house. |
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| | (). apillar of , the most important one going from ground to roof. |
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| | to fail in procuring because seeking too late. |
| | unlucky. tomiss a chance, to arrive at bad time. . : to make unlucky, to makelose a chance. |
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| | a decayedcoconut changed to oil before opened. |
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| | strikingsuddenly, coming like the wind. to arrive all of a sudden, to fall upon suddenly ... |
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| | lying. to telllies. : habit of telling lies. |
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| | Conopoderas aequinoctialis. <bird>warbler (The upper parts are greyish with whitish tips to the feathers; The underparts are mostly whitish, tinged with pale grey on the sides and with pale yellow on the breast; The legs and feet are grey and the bill blackish above, flesh colored below.) (aa). |
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| | to engage in beating the ground with the butts of coconut fronds to scare away thespirit of a person who has justdied. the scaring away of a departingspirit by beating the ground.
light as ablow. . . |
| | funeralceremony consisting of chasing the soul from a corpse, by tapping on ground or trees around with a stick for three days. : to chase in this way, to make quit in quick time. : I'll give you a goodbeating. : he got a soundthrashing. ,.
.barelytouched,grazed, only slightly touched. |
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| | to treat a dead person to a . |
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| | tocutnotches on coconut trunk to facilitate climbing. : to make ..., to cut ... |
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| | inconstancy in work. frequently turning aside from a certainwork. |
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| | night. : it is night. : it isdark. :twilight. :midnight. : at night. :last night. : towait till night, till dark, to stay the night at ...
.aday of 24 hours, day,date,period,epoch,season. : one day. : two days. : three days, etc. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. : beginning of the good season. :season ofAntares, good season, end April to end October. : end of good season. : season ofPleiades, bad season, October to April. :dailyhappenings. : on acertain day. : to fix a date; ua-bong:tostay, to stay till night, to stay late. |
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| | to engage in arranging for an all night's bake. an all night'sbake. |
| | lasting all night, from night till morning. : night; : tomorrow. is used only for certain things. 1. cooking; for ex. fish, which lasts all night, from night till morning. 2. fig.anger, kept in a long time and at last exploding. : he is holding in his anger, to be a long time at... to take ... : to leave till tomorrow. |
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| | of consequence, ofworth, useful. |
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| | to bake over night in an earthen oven. |
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| | twilight, gettingdark, beginning of night, beginning to get dark. : towait, to wait till darkness sets in. |
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| | 1. to make markings tocut out a sail, a costume. 2. toadapt and fix the of a canoe by means of two strings. : . . . to mark out, toadjust. |
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| | aclosing, afastening, awall,dyke,jetty,pier,breakwater. closed,shut,stopped,obstructed,covered over,constipated. dull,stupid,obstinate, who doesn't understand or won't understand. :blockhead, stupid, obstinate,stubborn. v.t. : toclose, toprotect by a wall, toenclose. : tostop, toplug, toshut, toobstruct, tostrangle. : cover the fire to extinguish it. |
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| | 1. a channel or passageobstructed by waves. 2. a method offishing by way of blocking up a passage. |
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| | . : tostop, toclose, toshut, toobstruct, tostopchinks, to close entrance to, topatch ormend. (magic) tohinder, toprevent, toimmunize, tosecure beforehand, toprotect against badsorcery.
alid, anobstruction. |
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| | tomend.
a mending of something rent. |
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| | an object used for stopping, a piece formending. |
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| | dark, richsoil, suitable for the cultivation ofbabai. |
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| | a persontattooed skillfully. skillfully tattooed. |
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| | a small gelatinous marine animal, the. coconut oil scented with same. |
| | aworm, theperfume of which is employed in making hair oil. Anelide sipunculus genus. : to put this crushed worm in oil. |
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| | abowl, acup .
.,. dear (high price),<expensive>,exorbitant,unequal. ill luck, bad luck. unlucky,amiss. . : to bring bad luck.
.land given or received as a result of .
.aflatsurface, flat part,platform,attic,shelf,carapace,turtleshell, outsidecrust. : turtle shell). things made of tortoise shell or any like material (plastic,horn, etc.). : thetemple; (). :flat andsmooth,even,level,uniform,regular. : they are all lying down dead. : you are deadbeat,extenuated. : tolevel, toflatten out, tospread out, to make smooth. . : place a small piece of turtle shell on a bride's head as a mark of honour (ancient custom). to show esteem and affection to someone. : don't honour them. : he is successful : help someone tosucceed. |
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| | aflat space. large and flat. tospread out. : to make ... to render ... . |
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| | totuck lower edge of mosquito net under mat or mattress. |
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| | (perhaps from brace, Eng.) aplane. to plane. |
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| | equality,evenness,regularity,conformity,accord,agreement,fairness,impartiality. equal,even,regular,flat, wellmatched, wellbalanced,suitable,fit,just, etc. : to make even ...uniform. |
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| | to ruthlessly destroy all thebabai in a patch as in time of war. |
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| | sailing,navigation. tosail, to go to sea.
to engage in collectingpan leaves for making athatch. the work of collecting pandanus leaves for making thatch. |
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| | tonavigate orsail towards ... to take for a trip, to set sail for ... : (lit. you take your sickness out for a walk), you go for a change of air. |
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| | a longfeather of frigate bird used in game of .
.a tableknife with bone handle. |
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| | get together to eat. : toeat a certain dish together. :kiss (lips to lips). : to apply lips to ... : theyembrace each other. |
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| | a work only half done,carelessly done. to work hastily and anyhow. . |
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| | togather dry coconut leaves () to be used as torches or thatch, etc. |
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| | to engage incutting into thinslices. the process of cutting pandanus fruit into thin slices-. kabubu made from thin slices. |
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| | acollection, apile, amass, aheap, awhole, areunion,assembly. : thechoirs ofangels. : the assembly, thepeople, thenation, thehuman race,humanity. : a pile of things. : to gather together, to assemble, toreunite, togroup, tocollect, toaccumulate, to heap up. : the assembly, reunion, choir, group,club. assembled. : to reassemble, to make ... |
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| | sufficient,suitable, well proportioned, good (mixture). , etc.: myequal, your equal, his equal. : to put right quantity, proportion, toequalize, tocompare, toconfront. . . |
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| | three plyy, cord or string having three strands. : totriple the strands, to twist with three strands. . |
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| | aboat .
a place assigned to an individual or claimed by him. |
| | boat .
.aplace reserved in for members of certainclan or family or for important people. : to change . : to take another's. : to have or appropriate a , to occupy a certain ... : the clan know ..., have heard. : to tease, to defy another . |
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| | conducting in aflirting manner so as to attract the attention of the opposite sex. conduct intended to attract the opposite sex. |
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| | habitually putting on airs, accustomed toflirt. |
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| | treetrunk,stock,base,foundation,principle. : having a trunk (tree), a foundation, a base, a principle,founded on,based on. : to wait till trunk of taro is formed, to base orestablish one's ideas. : well-established principles, to lay a good foundation. : bigbuttocks. ,,. |
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| | thethigh, the thick fleshy portion of the leg between the knee and the trunk. |
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| | ennui,weariness,tedium,boredom,tiresomeness,spleen,. to bebored. :tedious,dull,. : to bore, to weary, toannoy, tovex, totire. |
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| | abox with a lid, acanoe with pointed bow. |
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| | the upper part of acanoe-mast.
abounding as fish in a place unfrequented. |
| | swarming,crawling. .
.. new,recent,novel. : to makeanew, to find novel, to use for the first time, etc. .
.top of the mainyard arm. : totie the sail to yard. : todetach, tountie sails from yard arm.
.construction. . toconstruct. : to construct (canoes, ships, framework, etc.).
.travel. :travellers, members of voyage,passengers, travellingcompanions. |
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| | towork at construction of ... . |
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| | 1. aprop supporting the middle of the top in ancient construction. 2. theposts resting on horizontal beams and supporting the top beam of houses and small . |
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| | . . thepillar in middle of supporting top beam (). : the pillar placed exactly in middle of construction and supporting the , from it all the measurements were taken by strings stretched from it. |
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| | aconch,sea shellhorn,trumpet,instrument of brass band. : the conch sounds, the band plays. : sound the conch ..., horns, play the trumpet. root of,. compound words --,, etc.
.odour,smell. : it smells fish. is used as prefix root to certain number of compound words with the same meaning as .
.nearrelative, nearrelations. , etc.: my relations, your relations, etc.
.spouse,husband,wife. : my husbandwife. : your husbandwife. : hisher wifehusband. : tomarry, toespouse, to take in marriage.
.. : tocome out, tocome forth, toemerge, tobud. uncircumcized. : thebud, theshoot, theopening. : to make bud. budding. ,, bu: (uncircumcized).
.acoward, apoltroon. . :discouraged. : discouraging. to befull, to befilled, to besatisfied, to haveenough. : I am full ..., have eaten enough. |
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| | . to pull off or tear awaypandanus leaves for mat weaving<weave>. |
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| | loss,perdition,waste,damage. lost,mislaid,disappeared. : to be lost, to lose one's way, todisappear. : but there isdanger of loss. t. : to make lose, to leadastray.
.rumen,sack,pocket,bag,throat,mouth,. :tonsils :pharynx. : to put in sacks. :idem.
.amass, acrowd, aswarm, alot. : a crowd of people. : a lot of things. : toswarm, in a mass (mob), to crowd. : the grass is growing thick. : to makeabound, to crowd.
.balls offood as dough, rice shaped by hand. , etc. : toroll foods into balls. |
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| | glutton,gobbler, bigeater (like someone who is famished). : to give too much food to ... : to treat as ... |
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| | frequentative of: to make into loaves. |
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| | to put amark orbarb on to show reserve. ,. |
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| | thebeard. having a beard, bearded. |
| | beard. to have a beard. :bearded, bushy bearded. : toshave. : a long, thick beard. : nice beard. : sparse beard. : dirty, disgusting beard. : black beard. : red, blond beard. |
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| | having abeard only on the chin. a man having a beard only on the chin. |
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| | war. to wagewar, to engage in war, to be tempestuous, stormy. |
| | bad,wrong,unbecoming,improper,offensive,false,unjust,insufficient, etc. ,,,, etc.
.garboard. of canoe.
.war,combat,fight,tempest, badweather,conflict,<battle>. : a battle. :agony. :warrior. : anarmy,soldiers. :arms,cuirass,armour. : tofight, to combat, to battle with, to have bad weather. to fight against passions, interior struggle. . : uneven ground, stony ... : to make fight. |
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| | badness,malice,wickedness,vice,sin,obscenity,impurity,flaw,sexual organs. bad,evil,wicked,naughty,vicious,malicious,pernicious,hurtful,disagreeable,dirty,impure,unfit. : todamage, todeteriorate, toslander, todisparage, tocalumniate, to speakill of, todishonour, todiscredit, tocriticize. :defamation, slander, calumny, etc. |
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| | well proportioned, orgraceful, as a limb or arm. |
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| | entanglement,bushes,jumble, confused mass. tangled,jumbled,twisted,bushy. : to make ... : thicklywooded,thicket,underwood,brushwood,virgin forest, bush. inelegant,spoiled,awkward.
.;amongst, in themidst of,among. : amongst us. : in the forest, in the midst of the trees. : in the forest or east side of dwellings. |
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| | forest,bush (no article). : in the forest. : go to the forest. ocean side of islands (generally east). : where did you fish? in the east. |
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| | a specialgift given to a favourite in secret, waste. : to give this present. |
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| | vapour of hot water, breath. : to make vapour, to exhale ... toevaporate. : to make go up, to go away. sensation of a breeze on the skin (after a calm). . |
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| | deteriorated as by too much exposure to the air. deteriorated . |
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| | . tooth ofcachalot (whale). nice and round as tooth, nice form,plump,round. : nice teeth, arms, legs. : flesh well formed: nice mangrove tree : woman with nice figure. . ,. |
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| | bereaved, made distitute, suffering loss. |
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| | , nnaki. sorrow,regret,shame for having unintentionally caused damage to another. to be covered with shame. how ashamed we are! (doubtful word). |
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| | sufferingloss or inconvenience. |
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| | . smell ofunderdone flesh, especially shark. : to exhale an odour of this kind. |
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| | weaving<weave> of the finishing of edge ofmats. to do this work. : ... |
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| | and. smell ofurine emanating from places or objects; for ex. mats, etc. |
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| | flesh off the underside of smallfish, of big fish it is called . : 1. we will sit down to eat. 2. we will start a fight. : turn it on its side. |
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| | smell of grass skirts after being smoked. : the skirt has been smoked over perfumed fire. |
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| | therailing around edge of deck. ,,. |
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| | ahouse with lofty plates and eaves, a . |
| | a flat elevatedrock,platform, smallhut on stilts or piles. name of large rock on reef north of Tarawa near Buariki. |
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| | a preparation offood made fromtaro and toddy. : to make into ... |
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| | thespikes of a marine creature resembling slate pencils, aslate. |
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| | to engage in seizing the property more or less of the man who deserts his wife. to order a man to make recompense for deserting his wife. |
| | to take land from an assassin in compensation for his crime (formerly), to take out, to pull out, to remove objects from their place, toundress, tostrip, torob, toplunder. : to rob. |
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| | faded appearance after being too much handled. |
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| | afish,black trigger fish. Balistapus acuteatus. file fish. species -- .
.smoke,dust,powder,fog,saw dust, dried fish pulverized. :smoking, makingmisty,dusty,foggy,pulverized,powdery,smoky. :brightness,radiance. sparkling,shining (light, clouds ...). : togrind to powder, topulverize. :emotion,trouble.
.torub with a stone, topolish. : makesmooth.
.. to act asgo between, to bring about illicit meeting of man and woman, take messages to this effect.
.table drawerr. |
| | Rhinecanthus rectangulus (balistidae). triggerfish (& gen. all other). |
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| | frequentative of: to engage frequently in war. plural of . |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
| | Amanses carolae (ll). filefish (sm).
.Amanses sandwichiensis (y). filefish (sm).
.family Monocanthidae (ll). triggerfishes (sm).
.Oxymoncanthus longirostris (ll). |
| | Amanses carolae. Amanses sandwichensis. Oxymonocanthus longirostrus (monocanthidae). filefish. |
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| | tospur a little child to bravery. |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
| | Canthidermis (?) (Balistidae). |
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| | big, large, large round. adisease in which the hands and feet are swollen.
without food. |
| | size,volume. voluminous,bulky,huge,big,thick. :medium sized. : very big. : toenlarge, to make bigger, toexaggerate (fig.). : he ispouting, making a face at ...
.swelling of feet and hands. :starved,wasted away,malnutrition symptoms.
.disdain,contempt. toscorn, to showhostility andantipathy by puffing out cheeks, to look hostile, scornful,stern,grim. : to show such... |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
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| | refusing again and again to be reconciled. |
| | perseverance,obstinacy,tenacity,stubbornness. obstinate,forceful,vivacious,stubborn, etc. toinsist, to be obstinate, headstrong, self-willed, etc. (in good as in bad). : to insist. |
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| | frequentative of. abounding in. |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
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| | Balistapus undulatus (balistidae). Melichthys vidua (balistidae). triggerfish. |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
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| | to engage inasking for. the act ofbegging or asking for.
to ask for, to beg for. |
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| | to be hospitable to one's . |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
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| | afish, a variety of the . |
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| | toburn. a burnt residence or district,heat. |
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| | giving forth a strong marineodor as a variety of coral called . |
| | a badsmell, smell of putrid coral ... dirty skin. : to produce ... |
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| | abounding in skinny flakes. |
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| | encrusted as the skin with evaporized brine. a temporaryscreen from a high wind. |
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| | abounding in skinny flakes. |
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| | atree. Pisonia grandis.
.adance where man and woman face each other. : a dance air composed withmagicrites. .
.. toaccompany someone by following behind either to help or to deal an attack. .
.askirt with fringe cut at different lengths one above another. : supporting a name, taking another's place when name is called for work, fight, etc., answering for another. |
| | Pisonia grandis R. Brown (z). |
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| | to accompany a man who starts off in anger for violence. |
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| | to engage in pulling off the very young leaves of acoconut tree. thework of pulling out very young coconut leaves for . |
| | . to pull. . : to take away ... |
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| | a very disagreeableodour. this word is not becoming and should be used only with circumspection. |
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| | smell of pus, matter, mange, filth, dirty skin. : causing ... |
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| | a delicioussmell. having ... . |
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| | a waterplant. Ruppia maritima.
.: tosprout, tobud, togrow thickly. : to make grow up, sprout thickly, grow amongst other plants. : to grow up, to stand out, to grow over. |
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| | to sprout up in great numbers. |
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| | (more general). exhaling anodour of old things, food, sour coconut milk, badly cooked oil. |
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| | having a strong tinglingodor. a strong tingling odor. |
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| | togrow up, to get bigger, toblossom quickly (plants, children, animals). |
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| | bottom. thebottom,tail,posterior,buttock,rump, the bottom, the lower part,hind quarters,behind, theend,extremity. cause,reason,aim,object of,subject of, reason of. : behind, at the back. : from behind, from the back. : towards the back. because of...for ... :why? for what reason? : without reason ormotive. : uphold the cause, take the part of ... be on the side of ...uphold. : the end has been attained. : large breeched, prominent buttocks. : tolengthen. : the line is lengthened with another stronger one.
.. to beaccused,involved. : I am the cause, you are ... .
.. to fall with athud. : to let fall. plump!bang!
.. tobeat, to beat violently. : his heart is beating fast (to be excited). . |
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| | large . a person having an emaciatedbottom (insult). |
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| | end of theyoke or stick used for carrying loads on shoulder. : tocarry load on back at end of stick. : take the basket and carry it on the end of stick over shoulder. |
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| | tocarry on stick at back of shoulder. |
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| | extremity ofsail which is attached to the end of . |
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| | a sixty-galloncask, a cask. to beat or throb as the heart. |
| | Abudefduf septemfasciatus. A. sordidus. Dascyllus trimaculatus. damselfish. |
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| | Cerithium spp. (i). all species ofhorn shell (jr). |
| | Cerithium (gastropod). Terebra (gastropod). snail. |
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| | aray without sting, a species of seaeel without tail, or short tailed. |
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| | acoconut almost ripe, the fifth stage. nearly ripe as a coconut. |
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| | Caesio xanthonotus (lutjanidae). snapper. |
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| | taro () tender and nice, well cultivated. |
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| | a youngpandanus leaf not yet opened out. |
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| | a large specimen of thefish . |
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| | Gymnothorax monostigma (ll). eel (sm). |
| | Gymnothorax monostigma (muraenidae). morayeel. |
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| | toaccuse falsely, to accuse, to charge with. |
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| | to try to get possession of in an indirect way, or by pretending to desire that a similar thing be made for one. |
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| | reef jutting out at end of land. |
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| | the back of thehead. wearing the backhair very long. |
| | occiput, longhair (masculine) hanging from occiput and symbolizing riches (custom disappeared). : to have or put behind head. |
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| | extension ofreef beyond . |
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| | the lower side of thearm. |
| | theelbow,heel of hand,length measure --distance from end of one arm to elbow of the other (1+12 yds.). : tohit, tonudge with elbow, to make way with elbows, to hit an object held in hand, toknead, togrind with heel of hand using elbow force.
.remains,surplus of distribution. : to have right toshare. : to make ... ,partake of remains. |
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| | tograsp or hold a case-knife in the hand with the little finger next to the blade. topunch or hit with the elbow. |
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| | the suburbs of avillage on the windward or eastern side. |
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| | the lastchild. . a short, sharp-pointed pandanus-woodstick, used in cultivation. |
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| | the part of the face very near to the outer corner of theeye. to look out of the corners of the eyes. to look at out of the corners of the eyes. |
| | corner ofeye. tolook at with ..., tocovet, to look crooked at ... |
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| | theheel. a mode offishing in which the fish in aseine rush between the feet into a scoop net. to fish in the method. |
| | heel, part of wall of fish trap nearest to shore. : to use the heel on ..., to have heels turned towards ..., to have at one's feet. an ancient way of fishing. |
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| | tolie so related to another as to have one's feet near his head. |
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| | 1.remains of torch of palm leaves; () after burning. 2. a species of large deep-seafish,snapper. |
| | Aphareus rutilans (ll). snapper (sm). |
| | Aphareus rutilans (lutjanidae). snapper. |
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| | whichdwindles away from thick to very thin (cord, string, plait of hair),<taper>, person with stout body and thin legs. |
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| | an unknown country situated north-east of Gilberts more or less distant, of which a vague memory remains. perhapsGilolo<Jailolo> orMarshalls. : astranger. |
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| | fall,collapse,rolling ofthunder,bomb burst. to fall withdin, toroar like thunder, to make a din, anuproar. : a bigcrowd of people moving, changing (boat, religion, customs, etc.). : to make fall ... : to makeresound noisily. |
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| | (a tail sticking out, elongated). thintail, long and thin. having a tail of this kind (bird, fish). |
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| | Variola louti. seabass (A beautifulrock cod which may be brown, red, or orange with blue spots; The crescent shaped tail and the dorsal and anal fins, have a broad yellow edge; The pectoral fin is bright yellow with a red bar; A few years ago this fish was poisonous in several places but is now eaten on most islands) (hh). |
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| | a species offish, red with long tail, kind of . Variola louti. |
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| | afall, not heavy or violent. |
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| | superlative of. a badfall. to fall heavily. : to make fall. : falling heavily on or against an obstacle. : falling andbumping against several objects in succession. |
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| | towander, toroam about. a wandering or roaming about. |
| | a person with craze for travelling,errant,nomad, having no fixed abode. : to make ... to treat as ... |
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| | : womanscarecrow, kind ofogress for frightening children. tofrighten children by imitating (grunts, growls, making faces, etc.). |
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| | odorous as frying fish or pork. the odor of frying fish or pork. |
| | theodour of baking fish, especially whale. : to cause this smell. |
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| | having an uncleanodor. the odor of an unclean person. |
| | a nauseatingsmell of skin. : to give to ... anodour of ... |
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| | odorous as the arm pits, or as an [bird]. |
| | individualodour,smell (agreeable or disagreeable). : to exhale this odour. |
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| | specialsmell of individual plants, leaves, etc. |
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| | a foreignperfume. having foreign perfume. |
| | odour,perfume from certain exotic wood. : to make have this odour. |
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| | toswell as rice by being boiled. |
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| | family orcrowd ofspirits (). : invocation used in the giving of a name (). |
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| | giving forth an offensiveodor, as a pool much bathed in. an offensive odor. |
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| | thesmell of roast meat, food cooked in fat. : to give anodour of ... an appetizing ... |
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| | afire in a native oven nearly reduced to coals and ready for service. |
| | . the lastflames offire coming through stones on native baking fire, ready to cook food. |
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| | toset as thesun. to beborn. to be in parturition, to appear or to come into existence. (idiom) : its darkness or deep greenness is apparent. child-birth,birth. |
| | going down,descending,going beyond (sun, etc.). : the sunsets, the moon sets. :sunset. stretching downwards, falling, hanging. : her hair is long andhanging, going beyond, going further (as one piece of wood longer than another). : going down, descending,sinking into (as foot into the ground, a lead line in water). : asinker on fish line. : let become long, let down, let hang down. : too long, lengthened too much.
.birth,delivery,confinement. : the woman gave birth to her child. : the child wasborn. : to give birth. : who is born. : charm for ... :labourward (house). : todeliver. :midwife. |
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| | to givebirth to, to bring forth. |
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| | acoconut tree whose fronds tend to droop down toward the ground. |
| | tree with drooping leaves, drooping. tobow the head in shame, fear or embarrassment. |
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| | tofoam at the mouth. foaming at the mouth. |
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| | exceeding a given length. |
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| | second share. : your second share. to increase one'sshare in distribution. to do anincantation to acanoe for its success. |
| | ,. : torepeat, toadd to first amount shared.
.oddnumber of things over, after a distribution, toincrease the number in each share with what was over. . . . |
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| | at dance to attract attention. :look attentively at me ... you! |
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| | a lagoonfish,puffer fish (swells up like a balloon when out of water, a part of its intestines is deadly poisonous, ). : large species. :lazy,slow. |
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| | the sweet huskedcoconut. the green husk is often chewed as sugar cane. |
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| | a sweet huskedcoconut, specially relishable. |
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| | to engage in pulling or gathering ripecoconut s. the pulling and gathering or ripe coconuts. |
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| | moving veryslowly, as one weak or decrepit. a slow moving person without agility. |
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| | whichswells,increases,augments (as dough in rising or rice in cooking). : to make. toexaggerate ..., exaggerate a story. : action of doing ... making things go further (for ex. as food). |
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| | a piece ofcoconut wood or about one foot and a half long, used in defense or attack. |
| | a warweapon (anc.) consisting of a piece of wood 1 ft long, each end pointed and a cord attached in the middle. |
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| | a hen'segg. (for birds' and turtles' eggs: ). |
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| | tospurt in a little stream. the touch-hole of a cannon, thevent. |
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| | tospurt out in a little stream. |
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| | to take ripecoconut from the tree. the gathering of ripe nuts from the tree. |
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| | watery, too much liquid, not sweet enough. . |
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| | . agathering orfleet of canoes setting sail together, being launched at the same time. |
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| | help,assistance,succour,support,protection,cooperation,collaboration,aid,relief. : actualgrace. :helper, aid,collaborator,auxiliary, etc. : to help, toassist, to succour, to protect, to aid, etc.
.; tohelp, toassist, tostrengthen, toprotect. |
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| | to exhale anodour of raw meat. . : totaint with an odour of ... |
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| | aspect,air,appearance,features,looks. . : etc. my looks, your looks, etc. : having look or aspect of ... toappear as such,remarkable for ... tobelieve oneself to be ... to beproud of ... : whatsort is it (he)? : he doesn'tlook pleasant. : he looks naughty, wicked. : theyseem to be getting ready for a trip. :show its advantages. : toshow off, to look for notice.
.apparatus,paraphernalia for divination. : toprepare the necessary ... or : tocast lots, tosee, toverify, tocontrol the results of spell, or lot. ,. |
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| | term used in divination (). goodsign (the thing desired will be easy (), the way will be open, without obstacles). . also. |
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| | specialsmell of old dusty things, dust under things not moved often. |
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| | wicked looking. to have a wicked appearance. |
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| | ; to put mats or leaves on wall of fish trap () to make it higher and easier to catch fish. .
.looks,resemblance,aspect. v.c. : see prev. word. |
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| | badly dressed,ill kept, not living up to social rank. |
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| | ahair,fur,feather phys. having beard and hair on various portions of the body as adolescence advances. |
| | hair,bristle,down,wool,feathers,fur. :hairy,shaggy,bearded. : topluck feathers, hair; toshear, tocut wool, hair, etc. : to pluck, to cut, to shear the ... off. : to let the ... grow, to make hairy, shaggy. |
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| | sun'srays (esp. when very conspicuous at sunset and sunrise). |
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| | havinghair on the body as an infant prematurely born. |
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| | covered with short hair or fur or fringe. short bodilyhair,fringe. |
| | a fringedskirt. hairy, downy, etc. : to make ... to put fringe on ... |
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| | toprance, torear, to hold up the head, to put out chest; to walk in warlike manner. |
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| | odour of soiled, damp clothes or mats not aired,smell of ... : to make ... |
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| | liable tohurt, exposed to danger. |
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| | persistently refusing to return an article. |
| | a badsign in ; the thing desired will be difficult, hard to get. . |
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| | somewhat covetous offood. |
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| | having the offensiveodor of an unclean person. the offensiveodor of an unclean person. |
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| | justvisible, barely seen as a vessel. |
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| | one slightlyinsane. slightly insane. |
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| | passed over, given away,teansferred. name of ashell, the whitecowrie. anerror, amistake, asin, atransgression. toerr, to make a mistake, toblunder, to sin, to transgress, do wrong. v like should at the beginning of a sentence or clause of supposition, on the supposition that. |
| | a whiteshell,egg cowry. Cauris,collipara). species -- ,,. : todecorate the with the , to fix to the of the , tobedeck, toadorn oneself with ...
.afault,error,defect,slip,blunder,sin,crime,offence,wrong. : theculprit, thesinner, theprisoner, theaccused, thecriminal. : mortal sin, grievous sin. : . . :culpable,wrong,defective,faulty,criminal, etc. : tocommit a sin, to commit a crime, to do a wrong, etc., to be wrong, to make amistake, toerr, totransgress the law, tosin, etc. :confession, telling one's sins. :absolution, toforgive, tobegpardon. : tocorrect mistakes (in books). :arrest the criminal. :correction,punishment. : I will punish you. : falling often into sin or making many mistakes. : to take theresponsibility of ..., to assume theculpability of ..., to take upon oneself a fault. : I will take your fault on me. : tocharge, toincriminate, tocondemn, toconvict, topunish, tojudgeguilty, faulty, toalienate, tosacrifice, toabandon, to give away. : hewilled his land to me. : hecommittedsuicide. |
| | Amphiperas ovum (i). eggcowry (ja). not found on Onotoa; imported from Abemama for ornaments (i). |
| | Amphipera ovum (gastropod). snail. |
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| | decision about a meal in common. to give decision about participating at this repast. . |
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| | ashell (olive shaped, orange striped). |
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| | speaking with a slip of the tongue. a waist-mat with a long lower fringe. |
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| | afish, the. to fish for the . |
| | Adioryx caudimaculatus (holocentridae). squirrel fish.
Flammeo tiera (holocentridae). squirrel fish.
Monotaxis grandoculis. juvenileemperor. |
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| | fishing for at night with line outside of reef. |
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| | . ashell. to adorn with . afault, to attribute the fault to ..., to carry theresponsibility ..., to take the fault on oneself. : |
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| | . toprepare, toassemble, toarrange things orderly. : we will put aside, or prepare some food before going away. ;idem. |
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| | to wear as a finger ring. |
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| | tomeet in a friendly way for feasting or picoconuticking. a friendly gathering for feasting and the exchange of food. |
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| | leaving in great offence, highly provoked. |
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| | Monetaria moneta (gastropod). snail. |
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| | idem. superlative of. ... |
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| | error in calculation, not right, making amistake about.<wrong>. : it wasn't the right day. : to make ... : to cause ... |
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| | toooze out on pressure, to discharge as aboil. pus, white pus. |
| | pus,sanies, soft matter,juice, pus and blood from an abscess. :purulent. : to cause pus, juice, etc., to come out, toextract... : tomilk a cow.
.of many compound words. of . |
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| | pus mixed with blood oozing from an abscess, etc., beingsqueezed out of ... to render ... |
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| | bull and cow. beef (tinned), bull, cow, cattle. |
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| | superlative of. topull towards oneself, todraw quickly and strongly. : draw in quickly and vigorously (your catch of fish). |
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| | toflow out copiously, in great quantity (said of pus, juice, etc.). : to make ... |
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| | thebloodypus of aboil or abscess. to discharge bloody pus as a boil or abscess. |
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| | totwitch, topull suddenly. an enchanted place dangerous to visit. |
| | a placehaunted anddangerous, to be avoided for fear of being carried away and ill-treated by or currents.
.: topull, todrag, tocarry away abruptly. : the current carries away. |
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| | heart.
..ebullition,bubbling up,frothing, shooting up,leavening,swelling up, sapoozing,fermentation. : sap escaping from tree. : toboil, tobubble, toswell, toferment. : to boil. . .
.toweighanchor. .
.a species of smallshell, shiny and white and sometimes a gold ring on top. Monetaria annulus. |
| | Cypraea (gastropod). snail. |
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| | . . sap flowing from a crevice cut in a tree. |
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| | having the scent of oldcoconut oil. |
| | smell of old provisions or rancid oil. . |
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| | in the condition of acoconut tree or whose growth is stunted. |
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| | tired of, ceasing to relish or enjoy. |
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| | a certain sport pursued by parties while bathing in the sea. |
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| | giving forth an appetizingodor as well cooked . |
| | a specialsmell of re-cooked . |
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| | : the topmostbud of flower. : inflower, flowering.
.from broom (S.) a swept place, roads around dwellings. |
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| | thesmell of sour water used to wash out (toddy shells), smell of washing-up water. : to give anodour of ... .
.splashing,bespattering,spurting out,sprinkling. tospatter, tospray. :waste matter. :talk at random, about everything and nothing. : he drowns everyone with his talk. : frequentlyinterrupting others during conversation. : tosprinkle, to fall on, to sprinkle with water, tomoisten, to spray, tosplutter water from mouth by way of aspersion. : towash one's face, morning toilet. |
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| | tospurt out from the mouth. |
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| | tounsheathe, to take off as clothes, topull out, to unravel.
widelyspread, spread abroad, completely pervaded. |
| | : totake away, toremove, to take out, toextract, towithdraw, todraw out, toretrench, to take off, etc. : toretire, to becomedetached. : they areseparated, detached from the group, they are gone. : take revenge. : getpermission for ...
.widespread,universal, travelled over entirely. : we have travelled over all Tarawa. : the news isspread abroad. : to travel over, to go over all, to spread everywhere. : to travel everywhere. :everywhere. |
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| | thesmell of mouldy taro. covered with mould, red like a crab. |
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| | :growing up, growing too quickly, thin and slender from too quick growth (person and plants), sickly from illness or want. |
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| | a person who becomes veryslim through sickness or want of sufficient food. |
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| | offensive inodor, as decaying food. |
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| | . togo away noiselessly, to set out. |
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| | having strong unpleasantfishyodor. a strong unpleasant fishy odor. |
| | . smell of debris, fish, bones, etc.smell of certain beaches. |
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| | having the marineodor of a drift log. |
| | BigMakin orPitt Island, discovered by Quiros, 1606, and by Marshall in 1788, situated extreme north of Gilbert group; also name of principal village in same island. |
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| | a strong and badsmell of fish. |
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| | having a sourodor, as a coconut-shell bottle. the sour odor from a coconut-shell bottle in which is kept. |
| | thesmell of water off a grindstone, smell of dirty water, dirty . . |
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| | Polyscias guilfohlei (z). |
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| | foot,measure. . : to measure in feet.
.course,progress,quickness,progression,advance. which advances, goes, progresses, spreading like thin paste, or mud. : tomove, toadvance, toprogress, togo ... etc. : to make go, move, todrive, to set in motion, tostart, to progress, to advance. :bestir yourself! your turn! : sail your canoe full speed. |
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| | toadvance in fits and starts, frequently stopping. |
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| | swimming in water, oil (food), toogreasy,watery, toooily.
.moving (going, walking, passing, sliding) and making a clacking noise in doing so (flying fish, stone on board, etc.). ... |
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| | a want of assurance,timid. |
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| | . (irregular) to go to meet, towelcome someone, toreceive well. , etc. |
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| | tomove with difficulty, in a tired manner (fatigue, sickness, hunger). |
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| | arresting the attention of females, by strange pranks. the attracting of the attention of females by queer conduct. |
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| | tosailfast as a canoe against an opposing current. |
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| | toturn (around a woman) like the fish turns around a rock. |
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| | a woman's behaviour to attract man's attention (?). |
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| | a canoe high in the water (). one who doesn't know where to go, without house or home. |
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| | toslide in a certain way (game of ). .
.toarrive at once without difficulty, to arrive as soon as departed, to come forward without fear or shame, to be overconfident. |
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| | to meet with obstacle on the way; . |
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| | navel,boundarystone,centre of a whirlpool. centre,heart. : lump at base of spathe. : prominent navel, having a ... :idem. : he isrich, he knows all, he has all (he is the centre of all). : terms used frequently in invocations (magical) at time of cutting umbilical cord, the child was then dedicated to either beauty, bravery, knowledge, etc. : to have at heart. :engagement,betrothal. to make apact, pact of friendship, etc. : we areengaged, we arefriends,united. to make a pact with, to get engaged to ... :drunkard. :addicted to drink.
, astar (Scorpion). |
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| | having a large outgrowingnavel. a person with a prominent navel. |
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| | getting ready toblossom, toopen (flower, abscess, etc.). |
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| | toconsume food sparingly or without waste. |
| | 1. toeat moderately, to economize on food. . : we ate moderately. 2. to be attached to, to have a strongdesire for ... |
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| | a kind of big fishtrap made of (mats) or leaves (temporary). |
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| | a smallweapon with a single shark's tooth, used by jealous women. |
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| | having the smell of burninghair. the odor of burning hair. |
| | theodour of burning hair or skin. |
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| | arudder,helm, steeringwheel,tiller,handle bar, fishtail. : steering gear. :steer, steer towards ... etc. : to leeward. : to windward. : steer west. : to go before the wind. : hard to steer. : easy to steer. : hold the tiller, etc. : to fix, to fasten the helm, etc. : his canoe is about to depart. (in games)move!,advance!,turn! : to move, todirect, to make advance. toencourage, to start off, to push forward. ,.
.an ancient warweapon;lance orjavelin with two ends pointed, two or three yards long. |
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| | havinghairs upon the abdomen. hair on the abdomen. |
| | perpendicular row ofhair on the chest, having such. : to let this hair grow. |
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| | : steer, to steer for, to head for, to steer towards. |
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| | odour of smoke. odoriferous,fragrant from having been smoked. : a kind of fragrant smoke,fumigation to make persons, clothes, etc., odoriferous (much used in magic rites). : tofumigate by passing over smoke of odoriferous plants, to fumigate in fragrant smoke. |
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| | to engage inplucking or stripping as leaves. |
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| | to grow and produce stems bybulbs. . |
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| | Nesofregetta albigularis. <bird>white throatedstormpetrel (The adult is sooty black to greyish black above with a noticeable white patch across the rump and a sooty band across the breast; The throat, lower breast and abdomen are white, and the underwings smoky-white; The tail is long and deeply forked, and the bill black.) (aa). |
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| | frequentative of : to row. |
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| | : tosteer for the village (when at sea). idem.
.: tosplit, todivide lengthwise, toseparate by hollowing out between. : to split intwo. : to split inthree. : to split infour. : topart the hair. : splitting, dividing lengthwise. : scoop out a hole to make a fire to cook fish. : a localmeasure of about 1 yard. |
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| | to engage insplitting coconut logs by adzing. the splitting of coconut logs into planks by adzing. |
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| | tosplit. the splitting of wood. |
| | tosplit wood. :boards,laths obtained from splitting (pandanus, etc.), laths of coconut are called . |
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| | apaddle. to paddle.
to paddle. |
| | apaddle. to paddle. : to go by paddling. |
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| | (split and pull); topull off stems, shoots, leaves, anything on trunk (for ex. , etc.). ;idem. |
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| | tostrip off as dead leaves. |
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| | ashell,bivalvular, long and very thin. species -- shell used to cut leaves in strips for weaving (formerly), atool made of wood (nowadays) with teeth of iron to cut leaves in equal strips.
.thin. : very thin. : extremely thin. : to make thinner, toslice finely. : to slice, todivide with . . : tosharpen to a point, think, to cut in very fine slices, topare away. |
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| | tomark a board with a line previous to cutting it. |
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| | instrument (with sharp point) used to comb out fringe of grass skirts (made formerly with coconut shell). |
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| | tocut into slices a pandanus fruit. |
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| | . idem. tocut in thin slices, toslice off to a point, topare. |
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| | 1.oar. torow. : to row with oar. 2.feathers of frigate bird taken from under wing and used in game of . 3. : a kind offish hook which has no hole to fasten it to the line. |
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| | . oar,rudder, stern oar. toscull, to single scull. . : tosteer with oar, to make advance by ... . |
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| | ten, in counting things in general. . |
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| | rough as the skin or other surfaces. a roughness, as of theskin. |
| | dirty,dull,faded (lost colour from being exposed to sun). : (dehydrated foodstuffs). |
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