| | pron. of second person singular:thy,thine.<your>. : thy hat. : thy hand. : thy clothes. |
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| | this word is identical in use with the Hawaiian word , of which Mr. Andrews says in his Hawaiian-English dictionary, " an adj or a particle, which mostly follows proper names of persons, and signifies an attendant, or persons belonging to or accompanying". with. but - sometimes seems to have the force oftherefore. lowstonewall on a flat for catching fish.
exclamation ofdissatisfaction orsurprise. fall as ahair orleaf, or afeather in a moulting fowl. |
| | with,and,but. : I will ride with him. : I and my brother. : He goes but you remain. following proper names of persons and meaning, and their relatives, family or followers. : Peter and Andrew and theothers. : Ten Teta and family.
.a fishtrap, made of stones, heart shaped. : a temporary fish trap made of mats () tied to posts at high tide. : a double , two enclosures of stones. : to inspect fish trap at low tide to take fish. : to construct a fish trap. : foundation stone of . names of different parts of fish trap: . .
.pooh,pshaw,nonsense (to show surprise, displeasure).
.of :men. : aren't you cominggentlemen?
.to some nouns to give the meaning of alittle,barely,as if,inclined to. , etc.
.todisaggregate, tobreak up, to fall to pieces, tocrumble away, tomoult, tocome off in scales (leaves, fruit, hair, food). . ... disaggregation,decomposition, stripping. |
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| | a collection ofdriftwood,debris at sea, at crossroads of currents. . : of three kinds: : floating wood. : less buoyant wood. : wood nearly submerged. |
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| | (1) a fishtrap () having an opening at the far end where a net is placed to catch the fish. (2) a horse-shoe-shapedconstellation of 7 stars. . |
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| | stationarytrap for fish<fishing>. catch fish by means of a . |
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| | perfectlysmooth as the ocean in a calm. |
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| | dry, dried, roasted. : to dry up, totoast. : toroast the coffee beans. ,.
.string,rope,cord, anything hanging,necklace,necktie, little fishingbasket. : to have or wear ...
.todrag, tomove, to drag on anchor. : to make move a little. : which makes ... (idem.). .
.:debris. todisperse, tobreak up, toscatter. scattered,disseminated,decomposed. : scattered far and wide. : to scatter, to disperse, tostrew about, to decompose, toanalyse. : dispersion. to several compound words. . |
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| | softwood, young tree or plant having soft wood, tender soft wood, or wood becoming decomposed. ,,. |
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| | west. : to go to or come from the west (ambiguous term). : coming from the west. : go down, go towards the lower coast, lagoon side. go towards the west. |
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| | filled as a house with plenty of food to be prepared for afeast. large collection of food in anticipation of a feast. |
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| | residence,domicile,abode, sojourn, dwelling. : tolive, todwell, toreside, tosojourn. . :habitual grace. : myhouse, residence. : my sojourn at ... in. : to take as one's residence, to live at.
.. . toreduce to small bits, togrind to powder, topulverize, tocrush. maeka kanam (am kamimo): to cut up the tobacco for a smoke (). |
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| | . movement. tomove slightly. |
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| | beingmoved, beingdisplaced by necessity or for a determined reason (persons, canoe). |
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| | be momentarilyhid as thecanoes of a fleet by a fast sailingcanoe. |
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| | personpassing by who is not distinctlyseen. seen accidentally, not by a direct look of the eye, but, as it were, by a side glance. |
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| | from (ex in Latin). : from here. : from there. : onthis side of. : from above. suff. . :come here, come towards me. :give me! (for distant objects). (for objects near at hand). : comehere.
.breadfruittree, itsfruit. species: , etc.
.a pale-colouredstingray.
.pale,greyish,whitish. : to become or be pale, to get pale suddenly. :white. to several words of same meaning. ,,.. : to make ... to makeappear ... : the white of theeye, whitebottom of lagoon.
.sourness, acidity. sour,insipid,acid,unripe,green (fruit),tasteless. :disgusting,distasteful.
., etc. thefront of,fore quarters,fore parts, front. :before.<>. : before the birth of ... : to have, carry, put, or be in front or before. : he isforestalled, oroutrun. : he got before us.
.awig.
.cooked,well done,well cooked. cooked, too hot. : badly cooked,under done,half cooked, half raw. : easily cooked, quickly cooked. : to cook it. : cookedtoddy,syrup,molasses. |
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| | fromthere, from that place. |
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| | beaten soft with a stick. |
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| | south. ,. : to go towards the south. : to come from the south. : to come from or go to the south. |
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| | Hall Island (south of Tarawa), discovered by Patterson. |
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| | : one, twofragments,pieces,bits, small pieces, smallchange (money). : atiny piece, a particle, small bit. :broken in two. : broken in three. : gettingbright in the east. ... tobreak, tosmash something hard or brittle, as vase, glass, etc. |
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| | and. amusement,play in which many people participate (mostly , etc.). : to amuse oneself, todance in number. : toorganize dances and plays. |
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| | asigh,sob (from pain, weariness, etc.). tobreathe with difficulty, to sigh, to sob. . |
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| | ... oninside of curve of island. |
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| | . to have, ot carry or place infront,before, on the breast, in one's belt, to go before.
. whiteness, paleness. white,pale. : very white,dazzling whiteness. : towhiten, to put a white mark on a tree, or a reserved land. |
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| | white ofsail, end of white sail. : to appear as a white sail in the distance. |
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| | to becomepale, to be pale. pale (from sickness, fright), without eyebrows,greying. |
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| | sudden paleness. to becomepale, to get pale, to go pale suddenly. ... |
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| | distantsail. appearingwhite as a sail in the distance. |
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| | somethinglightcolored like amat passing in the distance. showing by night, as a man passing who is clothed with a whitish garment. |
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| | oscillation, slight movement. shaking loose. : to makemove, to shake loose, to push a little. . |
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| | pale from pain. to become pale (as after vomiting). |
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| | east. : to come or go to the east. : come from the eastwaerake, bo-rake: to go up towards the east, towards the ocean side. |
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| | white,clean, well cleaned, well sucked (pandanus fruit). . |
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| | and or from. assembly,gathering (for something or other). to assemble, to come together. ...: to wait for ... |
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| | sup. of :mob. tofollow the agitation of the mob, to come and go amongst, to acttogether. |
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| | mitre [religious headdress] . |
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| | cool. coolness, the state of being cool. |
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| | frequentative of very cool. |
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| | life,existence,salvation,comfort. :eternal life. :well fed,well treated by relations, family. :living,flourishing,fresh,prosperous. : very muchalive,thriving. :agreeable to the taste ... to the heart ... to the eye. : agreeable, vivifying,energizing, refreshing. : thetree of life. : the day ofsalvation. : theSaviour,Redeemer. : to give life, to keep in existence, to save, tovivify, to bring to, to bring back to health, todeliver. |
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| | tolive off, to have as means of livelihood, to have as food. |
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| | power,force,authority,ardour. : powerful,strong, ardent,rapid,animated, full of life. to some words to indicate: forceful action, ardour, rapidity. : run quickly. : to rise early. ura-maka: flaming, blazing. : to make stronger, more ardent, to fan the flame. : to make more ardent, to make blaze up. rapidity. to be rapid. : toaccelerate.
.rottenness,decay,caries,ulcer,sore,defect. : decayed, ulcerous,cankered. : to cause ... |
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| | . noise offootsteps,crunching, grating. : to make a noise in walking, moving, vibrating. : to make crunching noise. ... |
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| | not firm, easily broken,weak,frail. weakness of inanimate material. |
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| | twister,tangled. hanging like a string, ligament, fibre (cord, string, strip of cloth, fringe, etc.). : to hang or tear in strips. |
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| | agame. to play with operculum of or .
.. habit ofthrowing stones. |
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| | Quimalea pomum (gastropod). snail. |
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| | thorn of pandanus leaf, a small thorn. : thorny, pricked by ... covered with thorns, or with thorn pricks. : there is a thorn in my hand. : very thorny,prickly. : prickling, thorny. : to prick.
.atoycanoe (orig. made of pandanus leaves). :regatta of .
.playful,sportive, wantonlyfrolicsome. togambol, to frolic (as ). : to move in frolicsome attitude. : to cause to gambol, to play thewag. |
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| | abatee>ing as a sickness. |
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| | rough to the feel, rough,raspy. : to make ... . ,. |
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| | closed together (leaves),closed (curled up as dried leaves), closed (books, eyelids, oysters),waned (visibility, flame). : the flame of the shooting star isextinguished. : its flame does not diminish. : to fold over, to close up, toshut. : close your eyes. te bo ma te Maki: the world before its organization by Nareau (sky and land not yet separated), () stuck together (). te kamaki: a flatbasket.
.for or . : . : half-seeing. : burning feebly<feeble>.
.. wet, very wet,drenched. : todamp, to drench. : tosaturate with liquid. : someone enjoyingephemeral power, riches, happiness.
.funeralrepast. : funeralceremony. |
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| | : frown,grimace. : grimace, frown. : to half-close, tosquint eyes () to frown, to squint, to grimace. |
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| | completelysaturated ordrenched as the hair with oil or water. thorough drenching or soaking. |
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| | small island north-east of Butaritari (Pitt Island).
. . alittle in the bottom, nearlyempty. : only a little. . |
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| | completelysaturated as the hair with oil or water. |
| | superlative of. adhering<adhere> strongly. .
.superlative of. wet, saturated. . : tosaturate (with oil, water, etc.). |
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| | Acanthurus xanthopterus. blacksurgeonfish (This is the largest of the surgeonfish and the most frequently poisonous; It is a dark drab fish with a very crescent shaped tail, a small spine and yellow pectoral fins.) (hh).
.Hepatus sp. surgeonfish orreef fish; poisonous (cc). |
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| | close together,stacked tightly (as fish in a net or trap, fruit in bunches getting bigger on ripening). : not ripe (fruit). .
.a skindisease,leprosy. |
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| | bent under a weight (unable to carry one's burden). |
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| | . . acut,incision,section,fraction,part,chapter. , etc. : cut,engraved,divided, fractioned, ceased to produce. : a coconut tree which has ceased to produce nuts. te kaua-makoro, te kateni-makoro: half, athird. :quarter. makoroua, makoroten: cut in two, in three. : to cut in two. kamakorokoro: coconutoil. |
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| | fear,dread,terror,fright,dismay. : to fear, to beafraid. fearful, frightened. . (irr.) : to fear, toapprehend, to dread; . . : to be feared. :terrible, fearful, frightful, dreadful,horrible. (irr.) : to frighten, to terrify, tostartle. |
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| | fear (only with the suffix pronoun).
fullspringtide. being full springtide. |
| | springtide at itshighest point. : to reach its highest point (tide), to flow in torrents (blood from a wound), full tooverflowing (lagoon, river, pond, etc.). : it is high tide. |
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| | tocover, to be covered, to cover over. : cover. . : to cover up the fire (native oven). |
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| | action,work,occupation,duty,operation,labour,employment,charge. : to work, to operate, to do. : to make ... work, tomove constantly. : worker, work-man, labourer. : make work, to cause to move, toagitate, to set going. : moving. : don't move. |
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| | work, labor or operate upon. |
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| | freshwater. ant. : salt water. : amouthful (to taste): two gulps. :sweet tasting, not salty. : fresh water, good to drink. : to make fresh or palatable. |
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| | lung ( ... etc.).
.moonlight. to be moonlight. : it is moonlight. : the dawn ofmoonrise. red glow in the sky before moonlight (the days following the full moon). : to wait for the moonlight or the full moon.
..
.(1) a species ofcrab (kind of ), the shell or carapace of which was used formerly to make rings. (2) , aring (for finger).
.shame,timidity,shyness,bashfulness. : you have no shame. : to beashamed, to be shy,confused. : causing shame. : to make ashamed, to shame, tohumiliate, toconfound. : a shameful thing.
food chewed for babies or for chiefs formerly, for betrothed (sign of great esteem, veneration). : tochew, tomasticate. ... to chew bait and give to fish. . |
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| | a kind of largebud at the base of the pandanus trunk which descends towards the ground to become a root. |
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| | frequentative of. abounding in. |
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| | frequentative of. great and constantfear. |
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| | frequentative of. frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative of.
frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative of. frequentative of.
frequentative of. frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative of. frequentdrunkenness. |
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| | frequentative of.
frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative of.
frequentative of. frequentative of. |
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| | lateralpanroot before touching the ground. |
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| | frequentative of. frequentative of. |
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| | v.t. toswallow the greater part of the chewed food and give only a little to the baby or chief. |
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| | toaspire after, toincline towards ... with hands, eyes, toattach oneself to (as a child to its mother), to approach towards ... (fish to a bait). .idem. . |
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| | express outwardaffection for, as a child climbing up onto its mother's lap. |
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| | frequentative of in pain. frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative of well anointed or meared with oil. |
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| | frequentative of running with a strngtide rip. |
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| | frequentative offeeble, woring moderately. |
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| | frequentative ofplump, well fed. |
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| | frequentative of veryfat. |
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| | frequentative of refreshed with foo. |
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| | frequentative ofloose, not firly fixed. |
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| | eye. gift ofvision,intuition, visionary. sagacious,perspicacious. : aseer,prophet, a visionary. :oracle, prophecy, etc.
. an opening. afunnel. : topass through, topour into. : a funnelfilter.
.tofeed, to feed by mouthfuls, to pour down the throat. : to be fed,kept as a parasite or hanger-on. |
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| | frequentative oflook covetously. |
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| | frequentative of having sharpeyes for finding. |
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| | frequentative ofeat. frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative ofsad faced. |
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| | frequentative ofabashed when rebuked. |
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| | : fresh water. aspersion or blessing with fresh water or water from coconut on composers, speakers, orators, singers to make their sweet, melodious (kind of sorcery or superstition). : tobless, to makesweet, harmonious (). beautiful,handsome,delightful. : a beautiful tree. : a handsome man. |
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| | from (latinex). : I brought it from the village. : two from four. ,.
.animal,beast,insect, etc. : a wild animal : atame animal. : aland animal. : a seacreature. :quadrupeds. :mammals. :birds. :insects. : insects. : ... found at low tide on beach. :shell fish,crabs in shells. :domestic animals. : to have ... torear, to own an animal. : stockbreeder, animal lover.
.tocardinalnumbers for persons, animals, small- and medium-sized fish. : six persons. : two sardines.
.messenger,delegate,deputy,representative,ambassador. : the Pope's delegate.
.sign,letter,flag,standard,omen. : standard of clan flown on canoes. : to take as one's flag, standard,banner. ,,,.
.longduration, long time, fairly long period of time. lasting a long time. to stay or be a long time. : it is not long since he left. : he arrived, came a long timeago. : toprolong the time, to stay a long time, to makelast.
astar,Canopus.
.behaviour,custom,habit,manner,fashion,style. : the customs of the ancients. : what strange behaviour! etc.: my manner, your ... : good or bad behaviour. or pref. to many words with or . |
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| | . todeceive, tocheat. : to cheat shamelessly.
.soft stickydirt. soiled, dirtied by something soft and sticky. : you have trodden on a dirty, sticky substance. ,. |
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| | scissors. crab. move as an infant on the back of its head thrown back by pushing with its feet. |
| | a pair ofscissors.
.(1) a species ofcrab. Cardisoma carnifex). : to bepoisoned or upset from having eaten crabs. : to raise oneself (from lying on the back) by leaning on the head and hands. (2) :stars ofCancer. |
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| | adish,food, a mixture of taro and grated coconut rolled in balls. : tomix, toknead the or to put in balls as ... |
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| | piece,bit,part,fragment. : a piece has fallen off or is detached. a garment torn and having the torn piece hanging down. |
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| | departure. toset out, todepart. ...: start from: start towards. : to cause to depart, ... to set out. |
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| | wakeful at night, often waking. |
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| | partially dried asfish, beginning todry as fish. fish partially dried. |
| | a disagreeablesmell of food not dried properly. |
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| | pit of thestomach. : my heart beats fast. |
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| | discomfort in thestomach caused by eating too much fatty food. : which causes ... . |
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| | emptyspace inside,hollow inside or under. : to make hollow inside, to give the sensation of an empty stomach. |
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| | used,worn,old,shabby,faded. the wearing of, or using of something. : to use, to wear until worn out. : asecondhand skirt or lavalava.
.money,cash. . : to make or to have money. : to desire money.
.male,man. male,virile. : he isadult. : to make or let grow tomanhood. : to wait till he has attained manhood, virility.
., etc.:brother,sister (special use). a man uses the word when speaking of his sister, a woman uses when speaking of her brother. often also used for cousins instead of . : to have, to take as, to adopt as brother or sister.
.caught in atrap,surrounded,ensnared, found out. . |
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| | askirt the colour of taro leaves. |
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| | : tocatch in a trap, toencircle, toseize in one's arms, round the waist, to hold carefully. : to catch, to seize with care. ,. : to catch in a trap, to snare by ruse, by lasso, by stratagem, toambush, totrick, tobetray. :idem. : asnare,camouflage to catch. : atraitor, betrayer,felon. :idem. |
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| | assemblyhouse, communalbuilding, family house. :cobweb. : sun'shalo. : halo of moon: celebrations for opening a new . : the moon is making his house or halo. : the spider weaves its web. :temple,church. |
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| | superlative of. well surrounded, welltied, well taken, put in a safe place, kept well. . |
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| | thick, or having many leaves as a . |
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| | atrace,footprint,mark,gash,scar,steps cut in trunk of tree for climbing, traces showing limit of tide. : to have ..., to mark ..., t gash ...
.: to leavemarks low down, or high up (flow, ebb). :idem. : to makenotches in coconut tree trunk in order to climb. . |
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| | dark green coconut leaves for making skirts. skirt made of such. : darkgreen colour. |
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| | Epinephelus fuscoguttatus. spottedrock cod (This rock-cod is a very dangerous species and has poisoned and even killed many people. It is a rather repulsive looking fish with thick, fleshy pectoral fins. In color it may be pale with dark spots, ... e ones may be uniformly dark; There is a black saddle-like mark between the tail and the dorsal fin. Although the fish are eaten in most poisonous areas, the occasional poisonous specimen is still found in every area where poisonous fish have. known) (hh). |
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| | . a thinfilm ofoil (on water, the sea, or the skin). toanoint with perfumed oil. : to oil, to anoint. |
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| | thatch (already used, taken off roof). |
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| | an old worn out used in bathing. clad in a . |
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| | (poetry) (prose) afilm ofoil on the hair. brilliant,soft, oiled. : put oil on your hair. : to oil the hair. |
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| | words of asong,<lyrics>, language. : the words which I composed. : the words composed about me, or in my honour. : to use as subject of composition, to speak of, to make poem about. |
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| | again (generally preceded by . opposed by a minority. the man opposing.
branch. having a branch. |
| | again,repetition. placed between subject and verb. : he came to see me again. : it canno longer be seen , it is rarely seen.
.abranch,bough,ramification,limb (of tree),knot,fork (of growing trees). : branch of tree.:twig,sprig, small branch. : forked, branchy : very branchy. : full of branches, very branchy. . : to let or make branches grow.
.inconvenience. to be ..., tooppose, toreject other's opinions, to put obstacles in way of ...
.deadbranch. different pronunciation from preceding. branching off, branch road. fig.embarrassment,contradiction, complication. complicated. ,. : tothwart, tooppose, tocomplicate, to embarrass. : toconfuse completely. |
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| | ragged as an old garment. raggedness as applied to a mat or a garment.
contend noisily withwords,dispute. contention, noisy dispute. |
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| | . (take an airing or go with the wind). not knowing what to do or where to go,idle. toloaf, to stroll about foolishly. : to get fresh air, to take a stroll. : let us go ... : to go here or there fno fixed purpose or reason. |
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| | to besurprised, toexclaim at the return of someone. : you are surprised see me again?, etc. : he shouted inastonishment to see the ship again. |
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| | (1)rubbish,refuse,dirt, sweeping. : the rubbish I have collected. : the rubbish I have made (or left). : full of ..., covered with dirt or rubbish. : to make .., to leave ..., todirty. (2)sexualorgan of male. . : he iscastrated.
.edge,brim,brink,border,ridge,end. firstmolar next to main incisor. toeat, tochew with ...
.. : abeggar, atramp. |
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| | covered with dirt andsores (). |
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| | treat a personilly as one often does when intoxicated. |
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| | bird. abounding in fruit. |
| | Anous minutus minutus. <bird>blacknoddy (Its general color is very black with a noticeable contrasting white crown and forehead and a white semicircle under the eye. The bill is black and the feet dark brown, almost black.). (aa). |
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| | cup. be in possession ofland through marriage of a child. |
| | (1) acup,mug,vase,bowl,chalice. : chalice. : cup withhandle. : toask for a smoke or a drink or to eat. : to ask ... (honourable). (2) a certaindowry (land received as dowry). : to acquire, to receiveland, dowry of the woman through a son's marriage.
.mangotree,mango. |
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| | possessland through the marriage of a child. |
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| | fontanella (on head).
.twostem posts of canoe.
.acry,scream,sob (collective). mango, mangongo, mangonako: to begrieved, inmourning, insorrow, tolament, to cry, tohowl, tobawl, tomoan, tobellow. : a cry of grief, sorrow. :plaint of love. : to cause to moan, ... howl. |
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| | the passage between nose and throat. |
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| | obscure, not much known, not noted. state of being unknown, obscurity. |
| | inferiority,insignificance,paltriness. : of little value,low class,inferi quality,vile,puny,unknown,obscure. : a man of low birth or low class. : to esteem as low, inferior, todeprecate, todisparage. |
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| | variety of a white, flatlouse, infesting the armpit. |
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| | a smallinsect with offensive smell. |
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| | talk unkindly at home of one who borrows. rumor. |
| | rumour, confusednews not divulged. : to spread ... |
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| | outer part of apan leaf at its base,chaff. |
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| | joke, make fun, be droll. joking, jesting, a joke, a jest. |
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| | an unfortunate person bringingsorrow and disappointment. |
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| | easily turning to any employment,apt,handy. |
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| | inventive,skilled in doing something new.
joke, make fun, be droll. joking, a joke. |
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| | . (1) full of or covered withinsects, swarming with insects. (2) from : to bring up, to have, or to own an animal, to take a person as one's plaything, partner, help, delegate. . |
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| | specimen of what country? From where? |
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| | . to own, tohave, to possess an animal, to take for plaything, partner, help, delegate, to take as one's ensign for flag. ko na manimanina Nei Taume? are you taking for your partner? |
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| | forgetfulness, distraction, semi-consciousness. :forgetful,distracted,doting, goneastray. : to forget, to dote, to go astray, to lose memory. : very, altogether forgetful. superlative of. : to make forget, to make lose one's head, totrouble, to make go astray, tomuddle, etc. : apuzzle,riddle,quiz.
.: toforget to do, toomit.
.shudder,shiver,tremor. to shudder, to shiver, totremble with ... :idem. shudder. : to make ... |
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corner. little lock ofhair in front of the ear.
provided with or carrying a supply oftobacco. |
| | : welleducated,brought up properly (sociable). have you brought us something to smoke or something to eat? : having nothing to offer.
.acorner, anangle,hair ontemple, temple. : to pull hair out at ... |
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| | separation or joint ofskull bones. a thing carried onear. to have something on the ear. |
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| | indolence,torpor, numbness,sluggishness. inert,indolent,numb (for ex. a person dozing asleep). : very ... :limp,slack,flabby,fagged out,jaded,worn out. : to make ..., to cause ... |
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| | or. . a lucky person. lucky,fortunate. luck,chance, good luck. : to make ..., to give ..., to favour to give a chance. |
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| | . . certainbrilliant places on surface of water. shining<shine> like oil in places. |
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| | notskillful in providing food, through indolence. |
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| | apathy,languor,feebleness. : feeble, without energy, apathetic. : to make ... . : weakening, softening, which makes ... |
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| | very smallfly orinsect. abounding in or full of. |
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| | imperviousness. :water tight,sheltered,covered, under cover, sheltered from the rain, ... the air, ... from sight (: sheltered from wind). : to shelter from, to cover, shelter. : a shelter. : cover yourself, take shelter, hide your naked (children).
.hollow,concave. ,,. |
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| | curving in,. bay , gulf. curving in or indented as the shore. |
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| | inside ofelbow,cubit (measure). :measure from tips of fingers to elbow of other arm (about 5 feet). manoku ni wae, manoku n ranga . |
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| | frequentative of irregular in outline as the shore. |
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| | ahollow,cavity,dent,depression of land,hole in the ground. hollow, dented. : very dented. : full of hollows or dents. : small hollow, slight depression, forming slight depression. : to make a hole, todig deeply. |
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| | undulation. undulated, a succession of hills and hollows, rolling ground. |
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| | . no result, no fruit, no profit. : he has leftnothing after him. |
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| | superlative of. an evil tongue (in general). badly behaved,naughty,ungrateful,wicked. : very wicked, thankless. : toill treat. : to make, to find, to judge as wicked, etc.
Sydney Island in Phoenix group. discovered by Emmet, 1823. |
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| | oftenseen, seen to weariness, seen too often. |
| | . common,vulgar, out of date, old fashioned, grownold. : that song is out of date (the same old story). : to treat as ... |
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| | chronic, offensivecatarrh in the nostrils. . |
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| | peeling off in littlescales as sunburnt skin. chronic,. littlescales on the skin from sunburn or other cause. |
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| | charactertraits,temperament,behaviour. : behaviour,conduct,morals,customs,character. : toobserve, to remark, to keep account of conduct, character, observation of ... , etc.. : I know the habits of that man. : I keep an account, I keepcheck on his conduct. : toimitate, to take off. : discipline book, mark book. |
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| | .caught,taken. well taken, well caught,acquired,assimilated, etc. and and. : acquisition, taking possession, assimilation, seizing, etc. : to take in, to catch on, to acquire, toseize, ... assimilate. |
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| | troubled water, turbulence. :troubled,turbulent. tomuddle, tomystify, toridicule, to make a fool of, totake in. : todeceive people. : acunning old blade,sharp,crafty,braggart. : to make troubled, to trouble, to muddle, to mystify, etc. |
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| | (1) . a large (fish). (2)enormous,large, of great dimensions. (3)cannon (so named because big). syn. . (4)man of war.
.thesmell of roasted coconut. : to roast coconut, to give anodour of ... : exhaling an odour of roasted coconut. |
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| | toforget (in thought). : to often forget. |
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| | (1) abush (Scaevola sp.),salt bush, grows mostly at ocean side. species: . : abounding in ... : to cut, to clear away . (2) ameeting tofeast for a new baby, three days after birth (so called because a was pulled up by the roots to preserve the child from evil spells). .
.bitterness, acidity, sourness, sharp taste. bitter,acid,sour (as sap of ). : he ispunished,caught,deceived,disgusted. : that disgusts you, ... will teach you a lesson.
.healed, closed up (a wound, a sore). : his wound is healed. : toheal, toclose.
.nearlyfinished,decreasing (rain, noise, ardour). (S.). : to wait till it stops, diminishes,attenuates. :moderate his talk. |
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| | abounding in or overgrown with the. |
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| | intermittent,rare, not quite visible on account of rapidity of passage or rarity of passage. : to appear or to come rarely. . |
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| | (): disappointed, corrected, taught a lesson by experience. : todeceive, tocorrect, to teach a lesson to. : correction,punishment, deception, etc. |
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| | rupture,break,crack,piece. broken, cracked, broken off. sup. . : broken in two. : broken in three. :smashed in pieces (wood, bone, long pieces). :fragile, easily broken,brittle. : abend ...curve. ,. |
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| | acurrent going eastwards met by a strong easterly wind with resulting strong dangerouswaves () breaking at the summit. . |
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| | , or. theprice to be paid in fish for loan of canoe or fishing net. |
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| | fish reserved or set aside in payment forcanoe hire. |
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| | frequentative of. food in many fragments. |
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| | Parupeneus barberinus (mullida). P. bifasciatus. goat-fish. |
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| | baldness,calvities, loss of hair, bristle, scales. bald,bereft, losing skin, hair, scales, decomposing. ,. : to make bald ... : losing hair from the forehead upwards,receding hair. : an old bald man.
.decomposingfish, beginning to decay. : the fish istainted.
.moistened,soaked,softened, steeped. : very, extremely ... : the coconut husk is soft after soaking. : to moisten, to soak, tosteep, to soften.
.:oiled,shiny,smooth.
.: (1) separated, thinly spaced. open, separated, torn. : toopen, toseparate, totear, toyield, etc. : the needle eye is open, broken. : the lip of the fish is torn. . (2)dirty,filthy,disgusting,repulsive. : disgusted, repulsed. : to inspire disgust, to repulse.
.. agame.
.. feebleness,apathy. feeble,weak,languid.
.to certain words signifyingfeebleness. , etc. . |
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| | : veryshiny from too much oil. |
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| | kernel of acoconut in its soft state. white of anegg. having a soft kernel well developed as a . |
| | the soft tenderflesh of young coconut,white of egg cooked, the soft inside of fruits, plants. |
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| | suffering supposed supernatural evil after disrespect to agod. suffering supposed to be occasioned by ill treatment of the gods. |
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| | a bitshaky, badly-fixed, a bit out or order. . |
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| | (mostly used). (rarely used) rapidpassage of something. : I saw it pass like lightning (hardly visible). .seen,perceived, barely heard. |
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| | pain,suffering,grief. :hurt feelings,remorse. :sorrow, interior grief,regret,contrition. : painful, paining. to be suffering; : to regret, torepent. : causing pain; :afflicting,annoying, irritating. : to make suffer. : to hurt, to afflict, to makesad, to sadden, toirritate. |
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| | smooth,glossy, polished. : veryslippery, verysleek, smooth. : extending smoothsurface. : glossy, smooth, polished. v. : to make slippery, topolish, to make smooth. the rocky smoothplateau at the ocean side of island. : on this plateau. glossy hair. having glossy hair.
.alance pointed at both ends. 12 to 18 feet long. . |
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| | interval,space between,separation. : to be placed at intervals,interspaced. : to space at intervals of space or time, to leave intervals between. : to inter-space. : to mark the intervals, to divide in sections. :idem.<gap>. |
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| | to act gently, withprecaution,slowly (go, touch, take, steal, etc.), to make afool of. : to make ... : he took me in. |
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| | anoise barely audible. . to speak in awhisper. : tohum a tune, to whisper.
.charcoal. : to fill with ... : to make into charcoal, to let burn. |
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| | muchwet or sprinkled upon. condition of much wet. |
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| | soft,tender,downy,flexible,supple,pliable,manoeuverable, easy to handle, to steer (canoe). softness, suppleness, tenderness, etc. : very ... : going more and more softly, getting less and less, diminishing, etc. : to make supple, or flexible, tocalm, toappease, tomitigate, etc. : to soften, to appease, toloosen. : to calm, to appease, etc. |
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| | (no article)sea,ocean, deep water. :deep, very deep. : todig down to the water, under the water, very deep. :whirlpool, deep place. : large fish, deep sea fish. |
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| | rolls offlabby skin under the chin (double chin), under the arms (found in old people). : to have ...
.: the sky is covered with rolls of whiteclouds. : a cloud of white padding. : a stretch of rollingsands. : to cause to havepleats,wrinkles.
.marriage. . married. : tomarry.
.well-scattered, dispersed. : todisperse, toscatter. |
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| | strongtide rip. running with a strong tide rip. |
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| | interval,space between. : spaced at intervals. , etc.: one interval, two intervals, etc. : tointercalate, tointerpose, to put between. : interval of days. : to doevery second or third ... day. :between,among. : between us. : between you, etc. : leave a space between. . |
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| | having spaces between the canineteeth in the upper jaw. |
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| | thespace between two villages. : I met him between two villages. : to put between two. : to do every second day, ... every few ... etc. |
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| | a position close to theend, theedge, near theextremity, at thepoint. : to be perched at ... : to place at the end. ,. |
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| | youngcoconut leaf partly opened, fresh growth of leaves. |
| | end of point, stem,summit, shoot of plants, palms and certain trees. germ,shoot,flower,head,crown, crowning, first born, fine flower of. : a fine thought. : a man's wife and children. : he has lost his family. marewerewe, kimarewerewe: full of shoots, buds. bumarewerewe: perfume of a tree in flower, smell of ... riria marewen te ang: to beat one's adversary in canoe race. |
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| | apainful feeling under a wound, scratch, burn, etc. |
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| | clever,industrious (in getting in supply of provisions). : very ... abundant provisions. : to procure ... . : to praise the skill. |
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| | said of astout person having very fat legs and arms. . |
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| | plump, well-fed. plumpness, the state of being plump. |
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| | ailment, nourishment. : to take one's meals. : to eat one's food. : to give to eat, tofeed, tonourish. :alimentation, nourishment,meals. |
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| | shaky, not well fixed,unstable,loose. : thetide is up to near the beach. : his teeth are loose. : toloosen, to make move, to prepare a drink mixed with and water, to (stir). : drinking or rather mixingkabubu and water. without ), with it is called . |
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| | loose, not firmly fixed, as a post or a tooth. |
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| | . coldness. cold. : to make cold, to let cool, to become cold. : tocool, to let become cold. |
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| | moving in all directions. superlative of. : his teeth are all loose. : to makemove, to shakeloose.
.sharp,cutting, extremely sharp. : to make very ... :learnt byheart, known. .
.: arazor. |
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| | loose as a handle or blade. |
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| | a burningpain on skin. superlative of. : to cause ... |
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| | an idiomatic word,equivalent in force to,with good reason,naturally. |
| | (Gilbertese expression) evident sign,so it is for that reason that ... : he was sick yesterday so that is the reason why he did not comemaroaka! ko aki roko: so that's why you didn't come!
.todiscover, toproclaim the reason. |
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| | ... to pass thetime with ... : you stayed a long time with ... : stay often, a long time with ... : familymeal. toentertain. : to keep a person to talk, to eat, to entertai to keep company.
.diminution of a strong wind,calming of wind for navigation. : to wait till the wind calms,abates. :violent. |
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| | abounding in depressions or pits. |
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| | aconstellation.
undercooked. (lit. looks alive).
.eye,look ,figure,face,front,facade,appearance, exterioraspect. : mychoice, your ..., my chosen one ... parts --. these words: etc. :spectacles,glasses. :horizon (limit of ...). : toseem, tolook like. : the look of dying person. : to look and choose, to cast a look on; see. . used frequently with . . tired eyes, half closed (sickness, sleepiness, tiredness, etc.). : close, lower ... : he has badeyesight. : towink an eye. : abold look,daringstare,fearless ... : eyes east! eyes west! : wipe eyes,console. : to let eyesblinding, hurting the eyes. : to fix the eyes on ..., to look withenvy, to choose from what one sees. : to open the eyes, the eyelids. : he isproud,bold. : he looks withassurance. : he winks his eye. : he isdazzled,dizzy.
.alamp,lantern,light, anything used to give light. : he has no light.
.colour,shade,tint,complexion,hue. : dark colour. : coloured,print (material),motley,streaked,multi coloured. : to colour, to put in many colours.
.anopening, needleeye, opening of insects nest, etc.,lid,entrance,facade,operculum,mesh of net,core of boil,eyelet hole. : tosearch for shell-fish, , etc. : to make the first line of mesh of net (start a hard or intricate work).
.(1) agrub,caterpillar,worm. : full of grubs. (2) thewake orwash of rapid canoe,footprints,traces, wake, marks,prints. : the canoe leaves ..., goes swiftly. |
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| | a certain ironicallook, a look of joy, of success. |
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| | to look like astranger. : to give, to find ... |
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| | (sup.) to appear like apoor person, ordestitutebeggar, to appearsilly,idiotic, to appearrude,ill mannered, to beconfused,scolded,abashed, humiliated. ...: to treat as ..., toinsult, tohumiliate. |
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| | . to appeartired for want of sleep, to look withenvy. : to make ... |
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| | ashallow stretch of water just in advance of risingtide. |
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| | coconut tree with a close hard grain. |
| | timber of coconut tree, smooth and hard, without fibre showing. to be hard as ... |
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| | a place to steer canoe in or out,harbour,port, stopping place,anchorage. to stay at or go to a certain place to embark, or prepare to put to sea. . |
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| | having sunkeneyes. the condition ofdeep-set eyes, a person with deep-seteyes. |
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| | havingeyes or head or both lowered (through modesty, fear, confusion or shyness and sometimes through hypocrisy). |
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| | Monotaxis grandoculis. big eye (This fish has a purple-green back, shading to silver on its belly and all its fins are red; Young ones are rather different in color, being reddish green, with two long dark lines; It is very poisonous in many parts of the Pacific, but information is lacking for the Gilberts (. |
| | Gnathodentex aureolineatus (lethrinida). emperor (fish). |
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| | having theeyelids nearly closed permanently. |
| | a wrinkledface, squinting on awakening. . |
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| | having matter in theeyes. matter in the eyes. |
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| | concupiscence of the eyes, covetousness,ambition. ,. for taste and ; for sex . : tocovet, toenvy, todesire. : ambitious, envious, desirous. : to make envious, to make jealous. .
.when thetide begins torise. . : to wait till ..., to let the tide rise. |
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| | look at with longing for. |
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| | a Gilbertesemask made of the from coconut tree. |
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| | seeing everything,omniscient, keen sighted. omniscience, keen sight. |
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| | tiredeyes (strain, weekness, physical defect),. . |
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| | skilled in avoiding a sudden thrust,wary.
fish. |
| | afish.
.the two sticks at ends offishing net (in fishing called ). (S.). opening in fishtrap ().
.clever to ward off blows, clear sighted. : to boast of ... |
| | matakai (k). a species offish (ll,k). |
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| | havingsight in only oneeye, having one eye sightless. person with only one perfect eye. |
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| | destitute of sight,blind. a blind person. : to blind. : to cause to be blind, to deprive of sight, to obstruct the sight. |
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| | bewildered,perplexed, abashed, troubled, moved,upset emotionally. : totrouble, to upset, toabash, etc.,blinded by passion, emotion. |
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| | sleepyeyes, half closed through sleepiness. |
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| | allseeingeyes,curious, wanting to see and examine everything. |
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| | afish with large eyes. having eyes like ... |
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| | look on as a sightseer at something going on near by. witnessing of something going on, thepeople who go to the sight.
unevenlybraided as amat. unevenly braided mat. |
| | the act of looking with attention, with curiousity. : tolook at, tocontemplate, toexamine. : to look at a spectacle. :interesting to see, a curious spectacle. ...: to let see, to let contemplate, toamaze, toentertain, toamuse by showing or doing something for spectators.
.amat badly woven, not flat. |
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| | having sharpeyes for finding. quickness or sharpness of eyes insearching. |
| | having goodeyes for finding things. |
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| | suffering from the effect of bright sunlight on theeyes. |
| | soreeyes caused by long exposure to sun or reverberation. |
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| | lookingvirile, grown up into manhood. to have appearance of ... to be inprime of life. |
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| | conference with one's own family in reference to a proposedbetrothal. hold a conference with one's family in reference to a betrothal. |
| | tolook in order tochoose, to make a choice (used esp. when choosing a daughter-in-law). : to make a choice. : to look at each other.
.colour. to colour. coloured. :multicoloured,striped,motley, of many colours. |
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| | asking for things in abold way or without bashfulness. boldness or rudeness in mode of asking for. |
| | ,. superlative of. tocovet without shame, todesire without shame. out and outconcupiscence of the eyes. . : a person such ... : to covet. : to treat or accuse of ... |
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| | make a noise with thelips ineating. a disagreeablenoise made in eating. |
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| | to putbefore, infront of ... . : put string on the end of your line. toguide, topilot (be the eyes of). . to wear glasses, spectacles. to make a choice (by looking). :choose a wife for your son. loose, not pulled tight, not taut. : to loosen. . |
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| | temporarilyblinded by gazing at afire. temporary blindness caused by a bright light. |
| | todazzle. blinded by light. : dazzling, blinding. : to dazzle, toblind. |
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| | marked with fingerprints, dirty foot prints. |
|
| | homeland of ancestors to which souls of dead return (appears to be situated in West perhaps Madang). : land of thewhite man. : person(s) of white race. |
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| | asmile. smiling. to smile. : he seems to be smiling. : to make smile. |
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| | bad humoured,sulky,sullen. : to show one's bad humour to ..., to look black at ... : to make ... . |
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| | sleepy ordull from watching at night. sleeplessness caused by night watching. |
| | blacklooks (after a bad night). |
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| | hard kernel in thesole of thefoot occasioned by a foreign substance remaining in it. suffering from a . |
| | a small hardabscess caused by a prick in sole of foot. having such ... : to cause this abscess. |
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| | the look of adying person. : to make ... |
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| | inspectingcovetously everything belonging to a relative. an undue desire to possess things belonging to a relative. |
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| | to look like athief (in way of acting, in looks). : to give a look of, to find, to have the look of ... |
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| | look improperly as a woman at a man. lustful staring on the part of a woman. |
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| | daughter of and (one of the three wives of the moon, she who makes mats). The other two wives are and (myth.).
string with a on end to thread things on. : to thread on, to string with (fish, etc.). |
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| | : the commencement of risingtide. |
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| | downcast andabashed through abuse. downcast expression of face arising from abuse. |
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| | edge oflips. head of animal. is reserved for man's head. : to say with the tip of one's lips, without much conviction (or the contrary), to give one's consent to a decision, toagree, toconverse. |
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| | loose,slack, not taut (rope, string). : to loosen, to slacken. |
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| | a thing found justoutside. : just outside. . |
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| | limit ofebbtide on west side of lagoon near reef. on land side of lagoon and the limit is called .
.a certain kind ofkite.
.heel ofpipe. hole opening into pipe (S.). |
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| | tolook from side to side, to try to secure for oneself the goods of others. : to look ... : to make ... |
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| | glance rapidly, frequently and wonderingly about. |
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| | very youngcoconut with no kernel formed. |
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| | (1) junction ofebbingtide and ocean in beaches of reef. (2) a coconutshell with three holes used for drawing water. |
|
| | spoken of a youngcoconut a little more mature than .
youngcoconut older than the . |
| | youngcoconut a little more mature than which explodes when opened. |
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| | astar.
.a deep place in sea outside reef. |
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| | pretending to be brave but taking flight at first sign of danger,braggart,boaster. |
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| | showingfight, but quickly disappearing or assuming to be at peace in case the other proves to be armed. a show of fight until the adversary is seen to be armed. |
|
| | a coarsemat made with wide leaves, kind of . |
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| | abashed when rebuked, as one who circulates false rumors. |
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| | . . matarua, e rua matana: to make amistake about a thing or person looked at, to see badly, to make anerror. : todeceive the eyes.
.sight failing through illness.
.art,skill in deceiving adversary by pretence, etc. |
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| | having theeyes dulled by sickness. |
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| | frequentlywinking. frequent winking, aperson in the habit of frequent winking. |
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| | faded colour,discoloured,ripe (fruits). : the dye has come out of it, it is faded. : to make, to cause... |
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| | hesitating tofire orthrow at lest a person somewhat in the range be accidentally hit, hindered from doing by the presence of one in the way. frequentative of slack. |
| | tolook around on many sides (as when someone blocks the view or if attacked by several adversaries). : you are in the light, or you arehindering my view. : to make look in several directions. |
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| | literally, and primitively, the word probably signified that the ancients were sleeping in the , heads on pillow, and therefore one had to be careful in moving or acting so as not to offend them. : be careful, the old man is resting his head on a pillow (the head was formerly a sacred object). to beoffended,hurt, suffer animpoliteness, aninsult. : I offended you (formula of excuse, as:excuse me. I amsorry). : impoliteness,disrespect. impolite, want of respect. : wanting in respect to ..., to offend, to giveaffront. |
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| | just aboutripe (fruit), having redeyes, reddened (insomnia, reverberation, etc.). |
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| | largeround as a man and so held with difficulty. |
| | Bybis alba. <bird>whitetern,love tern,fairy tern,angle tern (This beautiful little white tern is fairly common on all islands except Arorae, where surprisingly it is not present at all; Pairs of birds will usually be seen h ... near pandanus trees or playing on the branches. They are usually distinguished by their pure white color and arboreal habits. The shafts of the primaries are dusky brown and of the tail feathers, most are black. The prominent eyes ... arrow black ring around them.) (aa). |
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| | having bigeyes, big-eyed. |
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| | observe with theeyes screened by the hand. observation with the eyes screened by the hand. |
| | toshade the eyes with the hands (as did formerly the seekers for before they had goggles for under-water). : to look in such a way, to do so in order to ... |
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| | examine as the deep with theeyes under water but screened with the hand. |
|
| | death,disappearance,extinction. : my death, your death, his death. :eclipse of sun. : eclipse of moon. adefunct, acorpse, adeceased person. . : my defunct, your ..., his ... : dead, defunct,paralysed,stopped, extinct,tired,unconscious,lost,cancelled,taken,blocked (in games), known byheart,memorized,free,tranquil, etc. : the way isfree,open,available. : the sky is beautiful,clear,favourable. : the sea iscalm, nice for fishing, travelling. : the fish bites. : todie, togo out (fire, etc.), to stop (clock, etc.), toperish, tofaint, tosuccumb. extenuated, worn out, dead tired. :mortality, attacks of fainting. mortal, perishable. :immortal,imperishable, inextinguishable, immortality. : inextinguishable fire. : he is dying. : he is very sick. : tokill one another. ..., ... : to be dead with ..., to have a thirst for ..., todesire ardently. : I am dying with love of you. : I am dying with hunger. : acoffin. : acemetery. : lastagony. : mortal,dangerous,grave,heavy,venomous,poisonous,painful,grievous, killing. : to kill, to extinguish, to learn, to memorize; : to learn by heart. : to learn the gestures, movements (used for dance, wrestling). : to desire, to love, to die with ... : I love you to distraction. |
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| | memorized, learnt byheart (as song repeated over and over again). : to learn by heart (by repetition). |
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| | go hopelesslyadrift at sea, to be gone adrift. condition of being hopelessly adrift at sea. |
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| | a sensation ofnumbness when being swayed back and forth. |
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| | spoken of one whoselegs areparalyzed in part. partial paralysis of the legs. |
| | paralysis of the legs. : his legs arebenumbed, paralysed, tired. : numbness of paralytics. paralysing, tiring. : to paralyse. |
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| | dizzy, as in a swing or from whirling round and round. dizziness caused by swinging or whirling round and round. |
| | . . tospring, tojump, tobound (canoe on waves, spring mattress, spring seats). : with much spring. : which makes jump. : to make ...; .idem. |
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| | sneeze. to sneeze. : you sneeze, someone is saying your name. : which causes sneezing. : to make sneeze. |
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| | flat,level,smooth (ex. the sea). devastation,ruin,hecatomb. largequantity, in great number. : to level, to make smooth, toraze, to ruin, to devastate, todestroy. |
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| | superlative of. . completelysquashed,crushed,flattened, reduced to pulp. : to crush, to flatten, to squash. |
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| | superlative of. of. squashed, reduced to pulp, trodden down, flattened out. : tosquash, tocrush, toflatten out. |
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| | having the appearance of astranger. manner or appearance or bashfulness of a stranger. |
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| | firmness,solidity, hardness,resistance. :hard,firm,strong. ,,: very ..., extremely ... : to strengthen, tofortify, to make resistant. used in many compound words meaning solidity. , etc. |
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| | firmness,hardness. frequentative of firm, hard. |
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| | a person'sresidence. long resident in a place. |
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| | sleep,nap, immobility. : to sleep, toslumber, to bestill, toclose (a knife), topass (cards). thelesser quantity (in a mixture of liquids). . : to sleep. : to sleep often or much. : to slumber, tonod, to beidle, indolent. : to sleep badly. : a short nap. : to put to sleep, toanaesthetize, tohypnotiz to close up. :Protestant (because they close their eyes to pray). :soporific, sleeping pill,volatilizer. . : sleepy. . |
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| | food prepared to be eaten by a child in the night. |
| | (dipth. ao)food,supper. : to give thisrepast (for ex. to a baby before putting it to sleep). .idem. |
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| | greatspeed in rotating (propellor, spinning top). lit. which appears immobile, which appears to be asleep on account of great speed. : to makerotate at high speed. |
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| | dry. dryness, the state of being dry. |
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| | mad about food,greedy. greediness. sup. . . |
|
| | spouting hole ornostril of thespermwhale.
interjection at the beginning of the cry made by people whe they are just at the point of hauling together. |
| | ,: portion of head ofcetacean (nostrils). |
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| | let'spull together oh! (for ex. used by a group to unite their efforts at a task). : tolift, to act together inunison. |
|
| | is said of ditches full ofwater. ... and . deep water. |
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| | mad aboutwomen. : very ... |
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| | greedy, eager to obtain an undue portion of food. greed for food belonging to another. |
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| | keepeating food while one is preparing it. habit of eating food while being prepared. |
| | gluttony,greediness, glutton (one who eats food as it is being cooked), one who wastes food ... |
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| | acripple. lame,disabled. ,: very ... : to do a work laboriously..idem. : to cripple, to disable. . of. ... |
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| | todisappear, toefface, toeclipse. ,. disappearance. disappeared, effaced. :imperishable,indelible. : disappearing quickly, easily, ending quickly. : barely visible at a distance. : to efface, toabolish, tosuppress, tocanc toobliterate, tocross out. : aneraser, arubber. |
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| | deafening. deafened bynoise, troubled by noise. : todeafen by noise. : a deafening noise,uproar,din. |
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| | : (to cut with one's gums) tochew with toothless gums. |
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| | (1) name of certain style in construction. (2) fullassembly of people. ...: assemble the ... (3) put in aheap, in the middle of the for everyone. .idem. : a meeting of all without exception for one reason or another. |
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| | covetous of food. covetousness of another's food. |
| | superlative of: an irresistibledesire. tobeg for food or tobacco. . ...: tocovet food or tobacco with extreme avidity. |
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| | superlative of: to make known, todivulge. |
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| | rudelysit too close to one. the sitting rudely by another. |
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| | be inhealth. condition of good health. |
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| | . forgetfulness. not to remember, toforget. |
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| | superlative of. all without exception, all without remains. : toassemble all without exception. |
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| | superlative of. dry, verydry. : our throats areparched after the work (thirsty). . |
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| | one used to the sea. goodsailor, skilful on canoe. . |
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| | a certain manner offishing using the for bait. |
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| | afish.goat fish.
.out of breath,breathlessness. : quickly out of breath. : to put out of breath.
.(1) ,green orblue (confused). : : topaint orcolour with green or blue. (2) : a greenfish. Multidaen.
.: a large emptyspace. spacious,vast. to have enoughroom, to be at ease, not crowded. . : to make room, to make place. ,idem. : move away and make room. |
| | Parupeneus barberinus (ll). goatfish (sm).
.Parupeneus trifasciatus (ll). goatfish (sm). |
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| | superlative of. a beautifulblue orgreen colour. |
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| | a species ofcrab which pumps water. |
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| | toshout out foolishly in amazement, surprise. |
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| | north. also. : towards the north. : from the north. : I am going to the north. : I come from the north (ex. subtle and wrong). : in the north. : to the north side. ...: to the north of; ... , ... , ... , etc. : to turn, to orientate towards the north. |
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| | annoying,boring,tiresome,troublesome,importunate. ,,,. : tocomplain, towhine, tofret, tomoan andcry. : to appear peevish. : to annoy people by bothering with complaints, grumbling, peevish manner, importuning ... |
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| | astain (esp. stain made by green coconut). : to cause stain, staining. : to stain, tosoil. |
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| | tosuck in, to suck with noise. . |
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| | frequentative of habitually fresh. |
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| | tosuck ..., to suck noisily. . |
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| | tender,delicate,fresh,chubby (as baby, ). said of cheeks, fingers, limbs. : his cheeks are fresh and rosy. : his skin is beautiful and fresh as a child's. |
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| | tosuck ..., to suck noisily. . |
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| | . used withnot yet. : they have not yet come. : they have not come. |
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| | indeterminatething, without name. :element of thing, matter. : a thing more determined than ,object,affair. . . I mena (or : I am doing, ... manipulating those things.
.so and so. what do you call it? what's its name?gadget, things (of which one can't recall or doesn't know name),thingummy,thingumajig. , etc. : the thingummy you spoke of. : to do, toarrange, tomachinate, etc. : that thing hasn't been done.
.tobe, toreside, toremain, tostay. : where are you? where do you live? : where do you stay? where is your domicile? sojourn. : do you remember my sojourn here? : toput, toplace, toleave. |
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| | fresh in appearance,new, not faded. freshness in appearance, a new thing. |
| | . new,recent,fresh. newness, freshness, something new. . : to make ... |
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| | bandy legged,arched; :bowlegged,curved, weighed down. : very... laborious work. tobend under the weight, totoil, toslave away. not straight,deformed,twisted. : to accomplish a work laboriously, to toil over. : to make toil, to make slave. (turned up lips), evil tongue,slanderous,caluminator. . |
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| | a forcedlaugh. to laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth. (more used). |
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| | tosuck with toothless gums. : |
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| | grumbling, growling, murmuring. togrumble, togrowl, tomurmur, tocomplain. : to murmur against, to complain about. : a grumbler,grouser. : to make ... : to continue ... |
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| | superlative of. togrumble noisily, loudly. : to makecry out. |
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| | an edible kind ofmud (known in Beru only). : an eater of ... |
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| | : to makenoise while sipping liquid. |
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| | suf.your. : your souls.
.adream. , etc. : to dream, to have a dream. : toadmire, tocontemplate. . : to dream of, to dream about. : to admire, to contemplate, to be inecstasy before, to beenraptured. : to make ... : toastonish, to makewonder. : wonderful,strange,marvellous,miraculous. . |
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| | urine. . : to pass urine. . . |
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| | astonishment, admiration, wonderment. : to beastonished, to beamazed, toadmire, to look inwonder. : astonishing spectacle,marvel<exclamation point>. : strange, admirable, marvellous,prodigious,miraculous. |
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| | frequentative of. frequentative of. |
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| | to do in awhirl,tangle, to entangle someone, to make ..., to lose senses. |
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| | file (tool). . : to file.
.entanglement,confusion. toswivel, torevolve, to put indisorder, torotate. :embroiled, entangled, twisted, confused,sinuous,meandering, very ..., most ... : to make embroiled, entangled, twisted. : twisttobacco. , etc. : to make turn. : toturn a handle, ... a wheel. |
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| | mill,one thousanth of a dollar . |
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| | . ( +). to have avision, to see anapparition, to see spirits or phantoms in dreams. : to see ... in dream. : to cause to see ... in dream. : to see ... in dream. |
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| | be partiallydreaming when falling asleep. half dreaming. |
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| | rest,pause. ...: my rest, thy rest, etc. to rest, to make a pause, to takeholidays, toretire from an occupation or position. ,idem. : to make rest, to give a rest,respite, breathing-time, a holiday, todismiss (polite term). |
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| | Parabaccus antarcticus Lund. sandlobster about 9 inches (i). |
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| | fowl,poultry. :cock,<rooster>. :hen. species: . :chicken n.a. : wild fowl. untamed, unsociable.
.first,superior,excellent,supreme,perfect. ...: the first of, the 1st in, the 1st for (in its category). : themost beautiful. tosurpass, toexcell, todominate. : the first thing. : the 1st place. : (the) first voyage. : topraise, toextol, toexalt, toflatter, toboast, to beproud. :pride, vain glory, boasting. : to do first, to go first to ..., to begin by. : I went to Maiana first. . ,idem. .
.beginnings,commencement. tostart, tobegin by.
.suf.at first,firstly,before, infront. : to arrive first. : we were the first to arrive.
.front, fore part. : thebow of a canoe. :in front, at the front, towards the front. : inhabitants of the front),crew of ship,sailors.
.face,countenance,aspect,look. , etc. . |
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| | (1)hen. . (2) species of . |
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| | sociability. sociable, a lover of company, a good host, good company, etc. |
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| | : the first effort, first try, courage at start. : tobegin, toattempt with ardour. |
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| | tide which starts after or after 7th and 21st day of moon. : to wait till the ... |
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| | thefirst, thebest, themost excellent, the flower of ..., the cream of ..., thephoenix,excellence,perfection,superiority,supreme. : most clever, very clever. : to put in the first rank, in the esteem, to praise the superiority of ... . |
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| | : thefirst thing,. : tobegin by, to do first, to present first the contribution of principal person in the ceremonial of the .
.palm of hand (end of hand). first deal in cards. : to take or hold a thing in the hand with part protruding in front (ex. sword). . |
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| | Monday (1st day of week).
.beginning of good season (i.e. of , April). : end of ... |
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| | . place where canoe lands,destination of voyages (general). : tosteer canoe towards, toland at, to betake oneself to ... |
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| | . (1) end offoot,toes. where one is going to, or stopping at. : to touch or push against with front of foot, to betake oneself to, tostop at, tocall at, to begin by calling at. . |
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| | a younggirl in the flower of youth. : to let bloom, to wait til ... ,. |
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| | being in the early part of thepan season. |
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| | firstjuice obtained after cutting coconut spathe (toddy). Thetoddy which flows after cutting in the morning and taken at noon is called . |
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| | lower part ofabdomen, undercut of fish. |
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| | youngsquid. frequentative of wild as a fowl. abounding in. |
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| | frequentative of frequently breaking, as thread, orweak. |
| | . broken in several pieces (string, cotton, etc.). : tobreak, totear. |
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| | youngcoconut at stage when pulp begins to harden (good to drink). : to wait till ... |
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| | pipe. : tosmoke a pipe. : to smoke. . : inveterate smoker. : the pipe is coloured. . |
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| | frequentative of excelling. |
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| | frequentative of do an errand onthe way. |
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| | frequentative of show a sullen or dissatisfied face. |
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| | frequentative of wild as a fowl. |
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| | frequentative of habitually treat kindly. |
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| | frequentative of to break, break off, settle, decide. |
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| | frequentative of of unsettled opinions. |
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| | mqn (k). Myripristis adustus (ll).
.Myripristis murdjan (ll).
.Myripristis pralinus (ll).
.Myripristis sp. (hh). |
| | Myripristes amaenus (holocentridae)M. berndti. (all other)Myripristes. needlefish. |
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| | viscosity, filth, sticky dirt,slime. : slimy,sticky, covered withfilth. softness,indolence,effeminate,whimperer, capricious (esp. of children). . : to make dirty, filthy, effeminate, capricious, tospoil a child. |
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| | monamona (k). afish described as a slippery (ll). |
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| | abyss,hell (no article). : deep down, in the bottom of the abyss, in hell. : thedamned. |
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| | mucous from the throat. discharging mucous as the throat. |
| | thickmucus, mucosity. : to cover or soil with ... |
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| | soft,tender,over ripe,hunch backed,bent. bruised, deadtired, tired out, knocked out,extenuated. ,,,: very ..., extremely ... (S.), ... : tofall off tree from excessive ripeness, tofaint away with tiredness, to bend under the burden. : he is hunch backed morimori n taetae: to speak in soft spoken manner.
.: a very ripefruit (esp. breadfruit),tiredness,weariness. : to let ripen after plucking from tree, to let soften, to tire out, to extenuate, to make bend under burden, to soften. : a fruit allowed to ripen or soften after picking. |
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| | Lethrinus nebulosus. scavengerfish (this is a deeper bodied scavenger than the other two, and and is not very common.) (hh). |
| | Lethrinus mahrena (lethrinida). emperor (fish). |
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| | falling to pieces as an overripe bunch ofpan. becomingflimsy as aninfant falling asleep. |
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| | infirmity ofhunch back, hunchback. (S.). : to make ... |
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| | (1) apiece,fragment, abit, anend. , etc. (2)stop,cessation, end,interruption. :broken, interrupted. ,: broken,smashed to smithereens.
.ceased,finished,terminated,ended. : he hasexpired: his speech is ended. : to make cease, to put an end to, to wait till the end, to let finish. : tobreak, to break off, tosnap off, etc.
.decision,resolution,regulation,sentence of judgement. decided, resolved, regulated,agreed to, etc. : it is decided. : thejudge, themagistrate. :irrevocable decision,definitive. . : toclinch the matter, to decide, to regulate, to judge. : the judgement. |
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| | to make adecision alone which should have been made by a group. such a decision. |
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| | in a certaingame the act of breaking the on the back of a player. |
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| | judge,decide, put an end to talk. judging, deciding, settling. |
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| | avoluntarydecision, personal, meditated, serious engagement. tobind oneself, make contract. : to take ... . |
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| | Monotaxis grandoculis (y).
.Thalassoma lunare (ll). wrasse (sm). |
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| | Sula dactylatry personata. <bird>blue facedbooby,Maskedgannet (The Blue-faced booby is seldom seen in the Gilbert and Ellice groups. An occasional one is picked up by parties on fishing groups. The adult is a large white bird with contr ... dark brown primaries and tail feathers. The bill has a horn-colored tip, the base being orange-yellow in males and pinkish in females. There is a conspicuous patch of dark blue skin on the face and throat.) (aa). |
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| | tofall by bits, by grains, pieces. : to fall, to fall on by pieces. : the sand fell on me. : tospill or let fall, to let fall on. |
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| | Portulaca lutea Solander. name of a small plant orweed (k,z).
Portulaca samoensis V. Poelln. (z). |
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| | toretreat, toretire, todrive back, to retreat under pressure. : to break ranks, toremove, to go away from one's house, to pack up, to move one's belongings. : to move with one's baggage, totransmigrate, etc. : to push back into heap, to move domicile, to break camp.
.gathers,pleats. : to gather, to pleat material<skirt>. |
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| | regurgitation. tovomit, toreject, toregurgitate. : to vomit, to bring up, todisgorge, to pour out. : to make vomit. : which makes vomit,disgusting,repugnant,repelling,loathsome. : torepeat, to want to vomit. |
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| | to beconcerned about, to take care of, to be busy with ... |
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| | food eaten near the close of avoyage, no longer held in reserve. |
| | agift presented to person visited after long absence, to a new host, formerly to spirit of dwelling or country visited. to make an offering. |
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| | and. a lightbreeze,zephyr. slow of movement, action, slow to rise, to move, to act. : to make ..., toretard, to weigh down, tohin. |
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| | (1)tuft of hair. (2) can be lifted, not heavy. . . |
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| | somnambulist, sleep walker. somnambulistic. : which causes ... : to make ... |
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| | easy to lift,light to carry. . |
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| | to take for one's dwelling, todwell in. : toaccommodate ..., badly ..., well ... |
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| | (no active or passive): not abiding by any rules or regulations, not adhering to customs<lawless>. |
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| | nightmare. to have a ..., to talk, to shout during sleep. : to cause nightmare, to give ... |
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| | tosleep badly. : which causes ... (). (light sleep). |
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| | . (1) what follows,effect,result,consequence,trail. (2) what comes, drags after. to be, or to come after, last. :after,afterwards. after, afterwards. , etc. : to put after ... in thelast place. : to keepaccount of, to keep count, topreserve. : to walk in the footsteps of, toimitate. is also written . |
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| | second batch cooked in the same oven. |
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| | thelowestrank of society, low,inferior, last to be served, low social standing. : to treat as ..., as the last and least, as nothing, tolower, todisparage, todebase, todespise. |
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| | thelast to receive, or to serve oneself last (as in cards). : to serve last. |
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| | behind, on the place spoken of,remaining on a place in charge while others are absent. |
| | anabandoned place, leftdesolate, quitted temporarily. : stayalone in a house when others have left. : toleave behind alone in house or village. : I am left alone after all have gone. ... |
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| | to get up, start work long after the sun has risen, to be alate riser ... : to do after. .
.tardy,late. . : to be late in doing, after the time, after the season. . |
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| | thelasttoddy juice to drip, to be at its last, the last ... . |
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| | confidentialcharge,mandate confided, charge. : toconfide, to put in the care of ..., to have confidence in ... . toconfide to, in the care of ..., to give a mandate to, to recommend to, to give charge of. : the one who confides. : the one confided in. . |
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