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stretch. paddle. fly as anarrow,whiz. fence. gill of afish. certaindisease. used in response to acall.    call,reply,surprise,lassitude, etc. (diff. tone but always placed at the end).   .gill of fish. : white of gills. :tonsils.  .enclosure,cloister,fence, enclosed property,stable,cage. :hospital. :pigsty. : cage for , etc. : to enclose, to shut in, topartition off, to put in cage, stable, etc. ... fig. tocatch, to be caught in the very act, to catch up with, to be found out. : the police caught him.  .to make one or more muscular efforts, tostrain muscles for effort. strong,vigorous, having nerve. : making strongeffort. : he has great rapidity in running. : he has a strong arm. : itstiffens, makes efforts: (baby in bed). : make efforts to go east (paddle towards ...). : make efforts to go west. : to approach, to come. : to move away. to make effort to ... : to paddle the canoe towards the land, to make advance by paddle or oar.    overtake.    to make advance, topush with pole or paddle.    coming up onto the land as a very hightide.    veryhightide, submerging (). : to wait for, to let come ...    capture bysurrounding.    tocapture by surrounding, to close the circle around ... .    roughbinding ofcoconut fronds fortorches, the torch itself.    bind roughly acoconut frond for atorch.    broken off as the head of afish or as acoconut leaf. broken instrength,decrepit. place near thebeach nevershoal at low water.    broken but not detached (as palm leaf hanging),faded,withered,drooping,bent, bent over (as old person). : to break and leave hanging, to make wither, ... droop. : to break the back of the fish, to screw its head (without detaching it). : to close the blade of a penknife. : to break in many places.    destroy,desolate,devastate,damage. one of the forms of.    devastation,destruction, ruin. : todevastate, toruin, toplunder, topillage, to makehavoc, to makedesolate, toempty. . a form of divinization ().    broken off as severalbranches of atree. fallen out as the frontteeth. prostrate as afence.    superlative of (for plants only). leaves, palm branchesbroken in large number.  ...    tohit, toattack from behind. : to close on, tofollow, tohem in from behind, to press hard, to be at the heels, topursue. : his chastisement will follow promptly. : we have a following wind. : their works follow them. : you will be spoken about immediately after. : to make ...    oasis .    the very thingitself, the very personhimself, one'sself. torch. perform anincantation beforefishing on theflats. be of noaccount. response to words ofpraise.    (the real thing). genuine,substantial,proper. substance,essence,base,body. : a valuable thing. : the essence of the thing.  is it really your own will? : at the base of the tree.<trunk (of a tree)>.  .(1) ironical of pleasure after praise.  (2) atorch of dried palm leaves used for night fishing. . anincantation for this kind offishing.  (N.) fire spirit.  (S.).  . . : be blowed! bother! confound it! hang it!    torch for form offishing called.    torch of palm leaves forfishing called.    newmoon. being in theseason of the new moon.    cycle of onemoon.lunarmonth:. , etc. : to wait till the new moon.    well matured.  wellmatured.    with solidbase<trunk>, wellfounded, wellplanted (a fairly large taro, young coconut tree with trunk already amply developed).    arrivefirst.    toprecede, to arrivefirst.    come toolate for.    to arriveafter. toolate,last.    largecircumference as acoconut tree, or the bulbroot of thebabai.    a..    slim as the lower part of thetrunk of atree in contrast with a section above it. tree the diameter of whosetrunk varies suddenly.    and. afragilebase<trunk>,thin, tooweak in comparison with size of tree.    unusually largeround. tree orperson of unusualcircumference.    withstrongbase<trunk>, well established, well formed, promising (persons and plants).    rafter of ahouse.  cut offpandanus fruit with ablade fastened to a long stick.    joist,beam,rafter of house going from to .  .: tocut off fruit of pandanus, bread-fruit, papaw with long rod furnished with blade at end. : todetach, to cut off fruit so, to gather so. .    to hurl against, tojostle; tohurl oneself against, tothrow oneself against, torun into. . : he ran into a coconut tree.    house for storing ripecoconuts.    ahut orshed for storing ripe coconuts. : to store in ...    store ripecoconuts in ahouse.    fish. fish for the okaoka<fishing>. abounding in.    a reeffish, scavenger fish. : species of . : to fish for ... : abundance of ...    Lethrinus rhodopterus (y,ll). youngscavengerfish (ll).    tocut down pandanus fruit with long rod and blade. .    oaktree .    chisel. return.    return. to return, goback, to come back. : to comebackwards. : to come often. , etc. : to go backwards and forwards, ...to and fro. : to come back twice. : to come back three times. : I go away to come back again soon.  at my return. : to make come back, to make return, tosend back, to give back, torestitute, to put back in place. : to keep bringing back, to keeprepeating, dinning. .idem. : to come back towards ..., to go back to ..., to do again, torecommence, to sayagain, etc. : Don't do it again!    frequentative of. frequentreturning.    frequentative of.    return to.    return repeatedly. repeated returning of a person.    tohurt again.  .tothwart, tooppose, tocontradict, toannoy, to strike left and right. : to urge ..., to ... .    octavo .    October .    October .    staff,cane,walkingstick.  veryyoung of the. having its young with it as the ,adolescent.    walkingstick.  .idiom. .    apart,separate,unlike,different.    . : different,distinct,special,particular,abnormal,singular. difference, distinction, particularity.  ...: distinct from, to be different, to be distinguished.  ...: it is no different from ...  how different! what a difference! :apart,separately. : to putaside, to separate, to distinguish, to differentiate, to make a difference, to do differently.    homer [Heb meas] .  bend as astick when one sits on it, or as aplank when one walks on it while it is supported at each end.    flexibility,supple,pliable. : veryflexible. : to make become flexible, supple, pliable, toinflect, tobend.    grow up rapidly. rapidgrowth.    growing quickly. rapidgrowth. tothrow with force, to go quickly. : to cause to go quickly, to growrapidly, to throw with force.    frequentative of. easilybending, notstiff.    offeeble momentum, slow growth. to throw with little force. . : toreduce, todiminish the speed, the force.    : the wavebends, turns and falls heavily.    flash repeadly aslightning.    aflash,lightning flashes. : there are repeated flashes of lightning.  .strongevidence, veryobvious,striking.  only is more used. : to make become ...    omega .    omer [Heb dry meas] .    turtle. full.    or : aturtle. :fat with shell of turtle.  .full, filled. fullness. : full to the top. : full to overflowing. : tofill, to fill up.    Chelonian mydas. greenbackturtle (hh).    and. topaddle (a canoe, bark). : paddle towards Matang.  .to certain names offish:,,.    species ofsea urchin resembling violet slate pencil.    smallmarine growth oranimal like the. musket with a certain lock.    an edibleworm found on rocks. Zoophyte.    afish.    todepart by paddling. fig. to go awayupset,blamed,scolded, confused. : your words drive us away. : you turn against us. : to involve in blame.    fish.  abounding in.    : to make anotch orcut the end to join on another piece.    mode ofspliceing the ends of twosticks.    torepair a keel () of canoe. .    splicesticks by cutting out a half of each for the sake of evenness.    unevenn asland, or as aperson's disposition.    : a distantland, hilly, of unknown customs visited by .  .() ofchangeable character. sometimes reasonable, at other times unreasonable, to be untrustworthy,unbalanced,whimsical. : todisturb, toupset, toconfuse, to treat as ...    portion of acoralflat slightly raised. slightly raised as a portion of a coral flat.    cloister, place prohibited. cloistered,reserved,prohibited. : toenclose, to cloister, toconfine, to put in prohibited place, to forbid entrance to ...    raised upplace orenclosure. : to raise up ...    uneven,elevated a little in places, as the surface of theground or of aplank<even>.    flyingfish.  abounding in flying fish.    flying fishh. Exocaetus volitans,exocoetidaeCypselurus sp. : a large flying fish with red-tipped fins. : a small flying fish.    family Exocoetidae (ll). flyingfishes (sm).  .Cypselurus spp. (y). flyingfishes (sm).    Cypselurus simus (exocoetidae). flying fish.    six, same as six. the final of the latter becoming before the suffixes and for euphony.    replace,fill as avacantcy. change as ofclothing.    (irr.) , or , with direct object of each plural and : tochange, to change oneself, totransform, tomodify, tometamorphose. : I will go and change first. : to change shells. : to change feathers, tomoult. : to change money. : change country, toemigrate.    six, in counting hardware, furniture, chests, barrels, timber, coconut leaf stems, fingers, teeth, large fish as sharks and.    substitute.    , etc.: toreplace, tosubstitute, tosupply. : replacement, substitution. : to replace. : substitute (for another person).    six in countingpandanus fruit.    .:spongy. :swollen,heavy from sleepiness,tiredness,soporific.  .tosqueeze, topress to extract juice. which can be squeezed as a sponge. . v.t..    at the end of song;end,finished.     soft orsoggy as watery. soggy watery . swallow.    porous,spongy.  ...  .toswallow, toabsorb:. . , etc.: onemouthful, two ..., three ..., etc.    asponge. .    sponge.    myth per. giant swallower of tree trunks. sword swallower, ogre, braggart.    regard, used generally with .  not to regard or mind.    tocount on, tohope that, toconfide in. rarely used except in negative. : not to count on, not to worry about ..., not to take any notice of ... : he doesn't mind the rain. : he can't be relied<rely> on.  (usual): worthy of confidence, conscientious.    hear.    and (who heeds what he is told). docility, submission, obedience. docile, obedient,submissive. toobey, tolisten, toadvise. : he doesn't listen to anything. : to make become ..., to make obey.    notrecognized at first.    wring,blow orsqueeze as thenose.    . tosqueeze to extract liquid, topress, to apply pressure, to use a handkerchief. : towipe one's nose.    hear,obey. hearing,sense of hearing.    hearing (). : tohear, tolearn by hearsay. tounderstand, toobey. : to understand wrongly<misunderstand>. : to hear clearly, to understand well. : to hardly hear. : to obey. : to make obey. : toinform, totell, to let know, toadvise. : he informed me. : speak louder to make yourself heard. : to listen, to beattentive, to give ear. : prompt to understand, to obey.    knowledge by public divulgation, by rumours reported. : toinform, towarn, to let know by spreading rumour.    wisdomtooth. wringing.    wisdomtooth.    listen,hearken. desire to hear, an attentive listening to thenews.    . act of listening, hearing. tolisten to recital, news, to give ear, to beinformed, to beattentive to ... : we willhear, listen to what you have to say. : to desire to hear. : to inform, to pass on the news, information, to speak about ... : tell us the news of your place. : publicannouncements, conferences,communications, announcement of news. :fluent,interesting to listen to.    beobeydient. obedience.    toobey. obedient,docile,submissive. obedience, docility, submission. : to make obey, to make become docile. : to make understand what is said, to announce.    hear distressingnews of a member of one's family when at a distance. distressing news from one's family.    cage for.  .Aurora Borealis.    hightide at new and full moon. <spring tide>.    nasty,soft. crab when it has cast its crust-like shell.    () tochange, toshed shell, skin or carapace (as do crabs, lobsters, etc.), toslough. a crab at the stage of changing ... (). daubed,dirty, trailed in dirt. : to let get dirty,soiled.    youngcoconut in the third stage. being in thethird stage ofdevelopment.    . acoconut fallen before maturity.  .a certain dividingmembrane especially noticeable in fish's throats.    onycha [incense ingredient] .  change.    totransform, tochange. . : the changing, the transformation,transubstantiation (Mass).    onyx .    totransmute, totransfigure, tometamorphose, tochange. . : water was changed to blood. transformation, change, transfiguration, metamorphosis, etc. .    faith,confidence,belief. believe, havefaith.    faith,confidence,belief.  ...: to have faith or confidence in. :fidelity,punctuality. : faithful, punctual, worthy of confidence. : to have faith in, tobelieve, totrust, tocount on. : to induce to ..., to make ...    havefaith in,trust,believe in.    awning,sail cloth,canvas.    fish.    afish.  .parrot fishh.    aparrotfish (ll).    frequentative ofchange repeatedly.    . n.v.  v.t.    six always followed by a numeral suffix or or by certain nouns as or by certain adjectives as etc. one'sshare orportion.    rad. for adv. num.six. , etc. :sixth part of ... : to make it six, to complete six.  .. part,portion, one'sdue,share. : he has his share, he has got his ..., he is satisfied. : we have our share. . : to give, todistribute to each one his share. . .idem.    : astar.    put forth a newleaf in exchange for a falling old leaf of somebabai plants, or of acoconut tree. sixleafves.    tochange ligature, to change the ...    crab when it has cast its crust-like shell. having cast its crust-like shell as a crab.    sixhundred.    sixty. .    sixmillion.    six in countingtrees, fish-hooks, and sections of land.    six in countingbaskets.    sixhundredthousand.    six in countingpersons andanimals.    toreplace. replacement. :substitute (for another person),pronoun. (grammar).    beg for in a very imploring manner, almostabjectly. most humbleentreaty.    supplication,request,demand,entreaty. stronger than . , etc.): intense supplication. , etc.    sixthousand. six in countingfathoms.    sixty. .    beseech,entreat imploringly.    sixtythousand.    : tochange place. :idem.    sixtymillion.    enough,sufficient in quantity.    n.a.    Clark Island discovered in 1827 -- sit. in south of group.    sixhundredmillion.    six in counting things in general.    six in counting bunches ofpandanus fruit.    :loaded badly, not well balanced, not filled properly. : tofill badly.    full tooverflowing, flowing over (liquid). : to fill to ...    superlative of. full of ...,covered with ... : tofill, tocover with (dirt, dust).    shallow,shoal, notdeep,lowtide. flatreef from thebeach to the breakers,shoal.  eatraw asfish.    lowtide, expanse ofbeach,strand. : it is low tide, the tide is out. dry (well, bucket, etc.). : completely dry. sundry terms --. : the beach is becoming uncovered. ; the beach is completely uncovered. : the beach is laid bare. ): a large expanse of beach is bare. : the low tide at night. : day low tide. : the moonlight low tide. : low tide on moonless night. : to wait till low tide. .idem. .idem. : to wait till ..., to let ... n.a. (). an uncovered place, without water, sand bank, ashallow place.  .: act of eating fish or meat inraw state.  to eat raw ... : : flying fish can be eaten raw.    . wide expanse uncovered atlowtide. tidereceding very far out. : to cause, to wait for ..., to let ...    horizon .    ebb as thetide. ebb-tidee.    eatingfishraw.    frequentative of.    unusuallywideflat.  having a verywidereef orflat.    unusuallylow, or very low as thetide. unusually low tide.    goat fishh. Mulloidichtys sp.    Mulloidichthys sp. (ll). goatfish (sm).    name ofland ofcrazy people. : a mad man. : who is crazy, altogether mad. ,,.    beat,strike. suitable place for manipulating aseine<fishing>.    (irr.). : tohit.  .a place suitable for net andfishing. to fish in this way.    general term forballplaying. playball.    agame played with large hard ball called . to play this game. : to make play. national game formerly very popular.    aplant,oleander.    Nerium oleander L. (z). oleander.    oleaster [ornamental shrub] .    stars. : .    original. :original sin.    work ofbinding dry leaves fortorches. binding drycoconut leaves for torches.    totie, to maketorches of (palm leaves).  ...    indicating sup. ,, etc.    olive .    olive, olivetree. .    strike,hit. hit,blow.    (1) act of striking, hitting, a hit, ablow. , etc. tostrike, tohit. . (irr.) . ,. ,,,,: to strike, to hit, to knock on, to beat on, tobeat. : instrument used to ...,stick,hammer,whip,cane. : to hit each other, to clash. : to make ... : to make fight. (2)pullulant, whichswarms,plentiful. swarming, great number. the word is used forabortion (by blows).  or .  .: its totalattains to or isequal to ..., tomore than. : thatgives, thatmakes as much, more than. : to be ingreat number,big quantity, packed tightly, close together.    toflatten out .    a child'sgame.    tohit the nose (of the loser in cards).    to makecopra (split coconuts). : to collect coconuts andsplit them.    drivee>ingnails. marine animal.    tonail, to drive in nails, tacks. . : to nail.    drive anail into.    . a marine animal.    aspanking, aflogging. to give a ..., to hit from behind (wind in sail).  ...    ashirt. (S.).  (N.).    give ablow gently.    a slighthit, barely hit. tograze, tostroke.    Hull Island in Phoenix group. Visited by Commodore Wilkes in 1845.    tohit with hand.    . tokick. a kick.    frequentative of.    frequentative of.    frequentative of fish with aseine and<fishing>. repeatedstrikeing. fishing with a seine and .    aslap in the face. to slap ... . : to slap ...    tobeat time, toconduct singing (music).    boxing,pugilism. .    light (opp of darkness). coconut leaf tied around a tree whose fruit has beentabooed. notdark,light.  scrapedcoconut after the oil has been extracted. bind atorch forfishing. bind acoconut tree with a coconut frond to prevent the stealing of coconuts.    . totie orbind around with string. : to maketorches of palm leaves (tie the ), totruss, to bind leaves. ,.  .light, brightness,daylight. :sunlight. : to give light, toshine. : there is light, it isclear. to see clear, tounderstand, toperceive. : we understand. bright,brilliant, clear,comprehensible. : to give light to, to light up, to wait till there is light. enlighten,instruct, make understand. : to enlighten the people.  .amark on a reserved tree (not much used). more used: or or .  .coconut after oil has been extracted,residue.    marryy>iedwoman in her prime. in her prime as a married woman.    . daughter in law during the first years of married life. : to care for and preserve the beauty and freshness of the daughter-in-law, to make her happy.    . tosurround, toencircle, tohem in, to gather around, to crowd around. to takecare of a person, to be attached to them.    surround.    somethingtabooed and not to be taken.    superlative of. asacred place, forbidden to outsiders, prohibited, no admission, strictly prohibited. : toprohibit, to strictly prohibit.    vt.    shield. shield.    buckler,shield,defence,<armour>, protection. . :idem. to protect by packing. :idem. to pack tightly.    toprotect, toshield by any protective object.    hosanna .    preparation of food , scrapedcoconut mixed with coconutmolasses. preparation of .  prepare food called .    adish made of grated coconut, and mixed with coconut from which oil has been extracted. : to nourish with ... .    frequentative ofshield.    of varioushues as the flesh of the.    . protected by intercepting object,striped with several colours.    to maketorches of. ,.    fold. fold.    (irr.) tobreak, to break by bending (wood, bones, etc.). tocompose a song, a story, etc.  or or or or . . :poems,songs,stories,music composed.    oats .  appear, come in sight. rise as thesun. appearance, appearing, rising of the sun.    appeared,visible,manifest, public,risen (stars), self-evident. : the news is out. : appearing often, much, very evident. toappear, to come into sight, to come out, toemerge, to beseen, madeknown, to becomepublic, torise (stars, planets). : rising of stars, etc.,apparition. : to show oneself, to come out, to manifest oneself, todisclose, toreveal, to be seen. apparition, manifestation. : to show, to manifest, to disclose, to reveal, todivulge, topublish, toconfess, toproclaim, etc. : profession of faith, creed. : to profess, to confess one's faith. : confession (sacr.), to confess.    go out. going out, anexodus, the book of Exodus.    togo out, tocome out, to go beyond, to be visible, to be revealed. be out,issued, made known. : to come out of ... : the going out,exit,quotient (). : to put out, to make appear outside, tosupervene, torise, tosurge, to be revealed. : revelation, manifestation. : to put out, to make go out, to go beyond, to turn out of doors, toexpel, toextract, toevacuate. :Exodus (Bible).    frequentative of.    frequentative of.    tobreak, toshatter, tosmash, tobend. tocompose, toinvent; see . : a break, acrack, afracture, apleat, afragment. : composition, invention,conjugation. (irr.) tobreak, tosmash, to bend, to compose. ,. : he made up a story about me. : tofold material, paper. : the act of folding paper. (irr.) : to make, to compose; see the following words.    tocompose songs, poems. the composition of ... : to make ... : the composer composed a song.    composewords to be set tomusic. composition of words set to music.    composition of songs. tocompose ...  ...    rheumatism in arm or hand.    exaggerate. exaggeration.    to say or tell tall stories. () toexaggerate. exaggeration.  ...    exaggerate, add to astory.    . (embellish around ...) toexaggerate. :idem.    . pre natalmassage. .    toprune (branches). topurge a work, an institution, etc. : to prune, tolop, tocurtail. ,.    revenge,compensation. to take revenge, to givetit for tat, topay back (in good or bad meaning). : tobreak, toward off ill-luck, to take away, to withdraw a punishment, to take one's revenge on ..., to pay back, toget even with. ; (is said of one who takes revenge, etc.).  (is said to one who loses a victory).    compose achant for the. composition of chants for the .    twisting aline with four strands. line withfourstrands.    afour plyrope,cord. to do this work. : totwist a rope in a certain way with four strands.    braid aline withfourstrands.    slandering or inventing evilstoryies. slander, invention of evil stories,lying.    invention oflies,chaff,humbug, calumnies<calumny>. to tell ..., to retail ..., to invent ... .    broken,smashed in pieces. . : to break, to smash, toshatter, tocrush tosmithereens. .    break intopieces as astick.    breaking,folding orcomposeing. new or recentchant.    tocompose. : the art of composing, composition of narrative, poems, music. : composer. ,.    frequentative of.    break in two as astick.  long waistcloth of double thickness.    tobreak intwo. : to break inthree. : ()idem.  or : broken.    rheumatism in joints of leg, foot,gout. to have ...    stupid,demented, withoutintelligientce. stupidperson, demented person.    silly,stupid,simple. : . : stupid looking. : stupidity, silliness, imbecility. : crowd of stupids, imbeciles. : to treat as ..., to find ...    fish.    afish,parrot fish (Abemama). Scarus ghobban.    Scarus ghobban (ll). parrotfish (sm).  TOP Home  A  B  E  I  K  M  N  NG  O  R  T  U  W   Kiribati page [8]ページ先頭 ©2009-2025 Movatter.jp