| | : the<a,an>. used formerly but now only in Makin and Butaritari for some words. .
.a redrock fish, like .
.tar,paint. . : painter. : to paint. |
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| | strongly perfumed white leaves ofpandanus. toflower. in flower. : let ..., wait till ... :idem.
.oil perfumed with pandanus leaves.
.a younggirl. .
.cheek. : toslap on cheek. : toembrace. .
.:sides,edges of passage. :digression of route. : todeviate, to gosideways. : to go in all directions, tozigzag, not following the straight path, ... the right direction, the middle course. :cock and bull story, disconnected speech (). : (canoe) unable to sail straight, butveering off course. : to make deviate, go sideways, digress, go off course. : he avoids a blow by moving (stepping) sideways.
.cutlass, jungleknife,sword,machete. . : to possess, to take possession, to use a large knife, to split or cut with ...
.: tocut, tosplit, tosharpen point. , (to sharpen pencil).
.special sound of with very brief final . choking. tochoke in swallowing. (irr.) to cause suffocation, choking in swallowing<suffocate>. |
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| | a man-eatingshark.tiger shark. Carcharodon carchavuas. : to fish for ...
. leaf or from (perhaps). widespreadingbranches, leaves<leaf> (of trees, plants),fuzzy (hair). :spread out, far reaching branches, bushes overrunning, encroaching, etc. ,. : speaking much about many topics. ...: to make ..., toruffle, tobristle, tofrizz, to frizzle, etc. superlative of: going in all directionsdiverge)?>. |
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| | uneven, having one part larger than the other, one sided. |
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| | theking of proud men. superlative of. |
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| | (ara) Sabachthani . Mat 27 : 46. |
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| | (N.). a fishingnet (short with stake at each end) (S.). |
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| | placedacross:. spread out on show, for public use, handed over for public service (usually denoting a piece of land open to all). : to put ..., to open to all. : toopen ... : the news ispublic. |
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| | : tospread out, to put on show, to hand over topublic, to puclicity. : to make ... . |
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| | asea slug.sea cucumber>.
.: to gosideways, ... from side to side, ... from one extreme to the other,changeable. : he has changed his attitude towards me. . |
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| | toeat food in common. to give unanimity to words or statements. |
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| | (1) () bristling of spikes onlobster called , bristle like, having sharpbristle.(2)spathe with twigs loose, not tied. |
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| | spathe of coconut with twigs pointed. |
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| | name of village of foolish people near Bikenibeu. : afoolish person. ,. |
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| | : want of symmetry, discordancy,asymmetrical,discordant. : not matching. : to cause ... ,.
.aside,remote,separated. to get away from subject. todiffer in opinion, tohesitate,misunderstand, togrope,tergiversate. : without hesitation. : a native way ofclimbing (knees apart, feet tightened on tree). : knees apart. |
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| | : tohinder or get hindered by another's legs, to crack the legs of ... |
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| | : diligent,prompt at work. : agood worker (climber, fisherman, etc.), goodprovider, not afraid of work (in pejorative rarely,scrounger). . |
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| | largeclouds covering sky. (N). ,. (S.). |
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| | . village offoolish people. ,.
cheek bone. : board to keep out waves at each end of canoe. |
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| | edible part ofpandanusfruit cut in slices ready to cook. :idem. but of inferior quality.
.word used to call tame birds to eat<come here>. |
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| | covered with swellings,uneven,bumpy (ground, surface). : to make ..., to raise up, toswell. |
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| | havingridges oruneven places as a spot on which one is lying. |
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| | going in leaps and bounds (as overbumpy road or canoe on rough sea). : to cause ..., to make ... |
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| | sometimes normal, sometimes abnormal, a bitcrazy at times,cracked ...,disordered brain. : to cause to be ..., toconfuse the mind. |
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| | red or pinkcloud over horizon at sunrise or sunset (weather sign). |
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| | ,,: afew,some,several.
.of and forming many compound words: : tocarry stones. : to carry sticks, etc.
.to be occupied,busy, busy about, busy working. :worry,preoccupation. : very busy. ,,preoccupied, worried about, overworked. : tooccupy, to give work to, toemploy ... v: to give much ... : to preoccupy. : to gofishing. |
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| | bewildered at sea. bewilderment at sea, loss of reckoning. |
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| | . preoccupation,worry. to have ..., be worried about. : I am worried about him. ...: giving ..., causing worry. n. : to be worried, preoccupied. : there are many worries, cares. |
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| | afew leaves, pages. : to take by leaf, to turn page by page. |
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| | lop sided, badlybalanced (canoe, basket, kite, etc.). partial, takingsides, supporting. : you are speaking in favour of the other side against me, you are taking sides. : to balance badly. |
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| | toraise up, toelevate, tocarry, tolift up. tobegin to sing, ... to talk, ... to tell. : begin together to lift, take, sing. : to lift towards ... : to lift and carry away. v.
.: a largescoop net with short handle. |
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| | a specialdish prepared for an important person, person who uplifts the prestige of family, a magic -- religiousceremony to honour a defunct. . |
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| | a welcomeoffering to a guest, to a spirit (). |
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| | some, referring to persons. |
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| | a variety of of superior quality (mixed with grated coconut). : mybest friends, myfavourite,preferred (for things and food, ). |
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| | . person who issource of news and gossip, prime author. |
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| | . todrift away, tofloat away lightly (cloud, smoke, canoe). |
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| | a verylittle, atiny portion, afew scraps, etc. : to take or give in small portions,bit by bit, to give a little toeach one. |
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| | the piece of forkedtimber in which oarrudder of canoe rotates.
. . . all designating the threestars in triangle of tail ofScorpion. |
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| | better: tochange (), turn an accusation against others (instigator, accessory, others), toexculpate oneself on others, to givetit for tat. |
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| | the longest island in Gilbert group. Discovered by Bishop 771799. |
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| | . (1) (general meaning). aplace where persons meet. (2)end. : the end of ...,extremity of ... : at the end of ... : pointed end. : blunt end. :curtailed, cut short:flattened,bent end. : beaten at both ends ..., going and coming back. typical or same type of persons. many compound words. :superior type, superior man.
.(1)place,spot,locality,position. . : todelimit, tofix boundary, tomark, toindicate spot or place. (2) : aguest made welcome, a friend related by bonds of hospitality. : to have, or take for friend.
.offering for family spirit (). tohonour a member of family.
.astrong, solidly built man, a strapping blade. ,,. |
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| | (1)tip oftongue. : to say or touch with tip of tongue. (2) to make arrangements with ..., toagree to ..., tospeak about ... |
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| | (no article). shallow place, extremity of foreshore. tofish at this place. |
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| | (1)wisp of smouldering husk, charcoal. (2) darkblood following placenta. |
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| | to be asunited as a couple,intimate friendship, to treat one another so. |
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| | detached piece ofland at end of island. |
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| | (S.), (N.). fibre,bark stripped off stem of palm leaf. : tie your bait with a strip of fibre.
.: tocall from his dwelling () by pronouncing his name. (1) with respect, toinvoke, having recourse to, call to witness. : I invoke the name of the Lord. (2) in defiance, todefy, tochallenge, to attack. so and so come out! .... |
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| | rich inland. rich land owner. : rich in things. |
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| | rich in every way. a rich type. |
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| | . acanoe with rounded ends. |
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| | v.t. to makeincantation on end of canoe, to protect it by ... |
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| | : the place ofhonour,primacy. : health, peace and honour! (formula of toasts, good wishes, concluding speeches, etc.). |
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| | . to be neighbours, next doorneighbours. : they live next door to each other. |
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| | to have, or to take forfriend. |
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| | rough part of sea. : very rough place. |
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| | extreme end ofspathe beginning to drip. |
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| | (1)finger ()digit. (2) measure ofthickness of finger,width of finger. (3)tool,instrument. fig.servant,helper,agent,apprentice, right hand. :maid servant. : skilfulness, dexterity. dexterous,skilful, handy. : awkwardness. awkward,clumsy. ...: to act as servant to ..., be servant of ... : to take or to use as servant. |
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| | skill (in cultivating plants), skilful cultivator, green fingers. |
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| | to engage in attempting to induce another toslay one'senemy. |
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| | : anadult male. :hardwood. : to make ..., to judge ..., to cause to change into ... |
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| | toconfer as to a suitable place for ameeting. an arrangement as to atrysting place.
to instruct a person as to where he is to bemet. |
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| | . crazy, crack-brained. to be crackers (slang). |
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| | the extremeend,extremity. : at the very end, at a dangerous place (for ex. on branch of tree). |
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| | a mode offishing with aline in deep water. to fish with a line in deep water. |
| | a way offishing, fishing in deep water. |
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| | to mention a person's name with a challenge. |
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| | longlance of coconut wood, pointed at both ends (). |
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| | aspear without teeth shorter than the. |
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| | . : to abstain from doing right. (ironical)awkward! todamage, to do quickly and anyhow. |
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| | of.vague temperament ...,image ..., form approximateidea, vague idea of the nature of ... |
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| | amyth. person (), personification ofthunder. : there is thunder. |
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| | covered with rough protuberances or ridges. a ridgy rough place. |
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| | superlative of: veryuneven, full of obstacles,roughness,hills. . : to make very ... |
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| | this word is used only after (10), or 100 or 1000, etc, to indicate that the speaker means somewhat over ten orten and more,etc,. units, used in counting units, as when we say, units, tens, hundreds, etc,. |
| | surplus,excess,over and above,left over,units less than ten. : over twenty. :morethan, over, more than enough. : more than complete, over and above,superfluous. : he is left over, superfluous, no wife for him. : to leave some over, tocount, toindicate the surplus or the number of units over the tens. |
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| | . toforbid to ... ...: he forbids us to ... |
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| | anincantation,sorcery. to perform an incantation, to practice sorcery.
to perform an incantation on a person. |
| | :magical religiousrites,sorcery, magic in general with special names for each kind. : to submit to magical rite, to do magic oneself, to put under superior power (for good or evil). |
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| | things, persons inrelief, formingheap,mass,protuberance,lump. : you aresurrounded, you are wellescorted. : tolevel the hills, toflatten, to level. : protuberant form, bulging, inrelief, lump<bulge>. |
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| | something set aside as for one'sown use. |
| | (1) person or thing reserved under pain of death, very much loved or detested. : tolove, tocherish, toidolize. (2) todetest, tohate, toabhor (often used in joking or irony). |
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| | myth. person. name of ancestor. |
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| | persisting to old age in observing one'staboos. |
| | superlative of. absolutelyforbidden,prohibition, no admittance, entry prohibited. : to forbid admission. |
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| | the existence of manytaboos. observing taboos. |
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| | faithful in keeping observance ofTarawa, partisan of ... |
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| | the name of a certainstar. |
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| | a village offools at Tanaeang, Aranuka. : a fool. |
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| | experiencing the after effects ofsickness. |
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| | of . topull off, toremove. : to remove, to pull off by separating, tostrip off, tosuppress, to cut off, toabolish. : take away his weapons, conquer. : .
.of . totie. ,,.
.coconut or fruit fallen before maturity, broken branch. : taken off<take off>, pulled off<pull off>,stripped from trunk (bark, branch). defeated,suppressed,passed,finished,ended (time). :defeat,prisoner of war. : the day, the time is passed. (see compound words.). see compound words: |
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| | theseason of (after equinox of March) is passed. |
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| | to shakepipe to remove nicotine. |
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| | : totake off, todust off, towipe off (dust, dirt), toshake off, toclean, todust, tobrush, tosweep, tobeat a mat. : wipe your feet, shake the dust off ... to shake off, toreject, tochase away a bad thought. : put away that idea.
.: a doormat. |
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| | : smallfry which pull at and detach bait. |
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| | sign,omen (distant lightning, dark sky, etc.), that it is time to lower sail, ... return to port. |
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| | : to getliberty, ...freedom, toescape from hands (), ... domination, from grasp, to shake off yoke. : he escaped and got away. |
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| | short of provisions,exhausted,ruined, reduced to misery. : our stocks are exhausted. :impoverishing, exhausting, ruinous. to impoverish, to exhaust, to ruin, to reduce to misery. |
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| | totie sticks (mid rib of palm) together side by side. ...: to makewall. ...: to makeplatform orfloor. |
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| | a suddengust of wind blowing off thatch, blinds. : going like a whirlwind, acting quickly. . |
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| | to plunder, to rob.
tolift up and carry acanoe. |
| | . tolift up by hand, all together. |
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| | (1) : totake off green leaves wrapped around food cooked in earth oven. (2) topull withered leaves off tree. |
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| | totie coconuts in two by strips of husk semidetached. |
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| | to take (young coconut husk) out of soaking pits<take out>. |
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| | v.t. ; contramagic, take away ill-luck. . |
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| | . todetach by pulling, toseparate brusquely, topull up, touproot. : to pull grass, toweed, to pull out weeds. ...: to pull out roots. : to fish for ... : they took to their heels.
.word, words,talk,terms,remarks,message,advice,promise,statement. : what is said about me, you, etc.,subject,object of remarks. : religiousinstruction,theology. : benevolent words, word of welcome. : I have something to say. :accent,pronunciation. :content,matter,meaning of words. :letter,alphabet. :messenger,spokesman. : meaning, idea expressed. : beside thepoint. : under, hidden meaning. :dependent,subordinate, underorders, subject to ... : theactual words he said. : an important statement, ... message. :capital letter,preface,prologue,introduction :promise,engagement. : to leave, tosubmit the question to ... : discussion,debate,retort,answer back. :answer,reply. :dispute,controversy,argument, lively discussion:resolution,contract,decision. : conclusion, end : nothing to find fault with, nothing to reply. : nothing to be said about, nothing to blame for. : he could not find an answer, ... reply. :loquacious,talkative. : to bescandalized, ...shocked by a word or beaten in a debate. :confirmed, rapidlyverified,proved. , etc.): toask, obtain,permission for me, you: topronounce, torepeat, tosay. ...: speak of ... : toalter,change,deform the statements. : toarrogate,appropriate a word, subject. : to askpermission. : toexplain,interpret,analyse ... : toembroil,confuse ... :transmit, makecirculate,pass along. : torectify,correct, explain, interpret. : tobring up question, open the debate. :announce,publish,reveal,divulge. : let matterdrop, abandon. : to pass over in silence, forbidden matter. : to bring up matter already decided. : to mix up subject; : toexaggerate, to add on to ... : to give an excuse for non ... : toinform,transmit,forward ... : tospread, make known, noise abroad. : topropose a subject, to bring forward ... : to give outhints. : tospread, toretail gossip. : to make prevail one's opinion, idea. : tointerrupt, tostop, to make cease, to put a stop to ... : tochange the subject of conversation, to get away from subject. :loquaciousness, loquacious,chatter box. : towrite,compose words. : tojudge, todecide. : toobscure, toshade ... : obedience, toobey : tolisten to, tohear ... : totranslate ... : brought forward, aimed at,exposed,compromised,committed. : to be inaccord with, willingly obeying ... : to touch up, to rearrange ... : to agree, to plan together. : to retard the decision, to prolong the debate. : tosupport, tocorroborate. : to carry tales,slander,libel. : to carry a message, to take a ... : tocontradict, tocriticize, toblame... |
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| | theseason after equinox of September is over. |
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| | pulled up holus-bolus (plant, tree, etc.). :pull up ... ... |
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| | (1) totake off lid, topull off cover, to make forced entry, to overcome obstacle. (2)faded colour, not fast dye. |
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| | pulled off,detached, completelyseparated. : branches, fruit fallen off trees, windfalls. : to separate, to detach, topull off. |
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| | tohit in a certain position, tochase away, topush far back, tosweep away completely in one swoop. |
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| | obstacle removed, hindrance ..., embarrassment lifted, one worry less,relief,freedom from. :quickly done, quickly dispatched,rid of. : it isfinished and done with. ...: to get rid of ..., todeliver from, to relieve of ..., tofree from worry. : relief, deliverance. which causes worry, relieves, frees. . |
|
| | last fine days<season> of (October). |
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| | topare away leaf from (small midrib). |
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| | : totake off, to take off what is useless, bad, tocut off dead wood, to correct books, compositions, tolop, toprune, totrim, topeel. : the author hascorrected his work.
.in compound words. : to follow such a way, course, direction, appearance of ..., same meaning as : helooks as if he will live. : looks sick,appears exposed to danger. |
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| | take off the dried wrapping around spathe. |
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| | tostrip acoconut tree of all the young coconuts suitable for food. |
|
| | a mixture of molasses and.
.todenude, toundo upwards. : his baldness isspreading upwards. : totake off, to denude, to undo from bottom upwards. |
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| | charm ormagic to suppress pain, sorrow, ill-luck. to help with medicine but more so by magic, to give courage. |
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| | (little used):rapid,sudden. : to do, to accomplish, tohasten, to dispatch a work in the twinkling of an eye, at full speed. |
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| | to make a after a certain fashion. a certain style of securing thefringe of a . |
| | a special way of tying, binding, to imitate design on back of centipede,idem., for making grassskirt. |
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| | speech,language, spoken language. dialect, chat, talk, conversation. tospeak, tochat, toconverse, totalk. : to make speak, toaddress, to speak to, to question. : to speak kindly. : to speak without reflection, senseless talk. :vernacular,Gilbertese language. :foreign language, beside the point. : foolish talk. : frivolous, trifling, bantering talk. : topromise, to takeoath. : violent, wicked, insulting talk. : bad language, filthy talk. : conversation, holding ..., chatting. : flattering talk, ... to please. : flirting, erotic talk. : joking, joke. : expressing anger, violent language. |
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| | (1) to take offcoconut. (2) a kind ofskirt. (3) leaves prepared for skirt. |
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| | to engage instripping off the centralthorns of thepanleaf.
to strip a pandanus leaf of its central line of prickers. |
| | toremove any unevenness, lumps, etc. |
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| | a longitudinalslice of, a portion of apan bunch. |
| | :split from end to end, in quarters, in pieces. : tocut, tochop, to split in pieces. : sandycrevice between reefs. |
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| | imperative.don't! don't cry!
.time, times,period,season, time (music). :once. :twice. : three times. : longago,formerly, inancient times. : it is his time to come now. see compound words following. : tobeat time. : one time, once, once upon a time. :each time that ... :every time that ... :sometimes,occasionally, now and then. :when? at what time?
.(1)clock,watch. :whattime is it by your watch? (2) :dial (of weighing machine).
.harvestseason,harvest. togather in harvest. : pandanus fruit season. : to harvest. : harvest the wheat.
. (1) thesun. (no article):sunset.. (2) or :magnifying glass (for lighting fire). |
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| | tohit on the top of the skull (special word used instead of insulting term, to hit on head). |
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| | . coconut at stage of kernel just beginning to form. |
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| | (1)spathe too developed to be used for toddy. (2)taro, beyond stage of being given certain compost. |
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| | wait! don't move! wait a minute! |
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| | . don'tspeak! don't make a noise. |
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| | maturecoconut,spathe at the stage of giving less and less juice, when tide ceases to rise any higher. |
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| | : towind, tocoil around, tobind with cord. : attach rudder to by tying with string<tie>. |
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| | (1) : thestring, orcord with which rudder-oar is tied to . (2) magical strings,charms to attract persons. |
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| | a sign of theplural,i.e. pf several or more. |
| | (plural) the (all). : the Apostles,the apostolic college. : the things, all the things, collection of ...<some>. |
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| | let be, let alone,wait a bit (used imperatively>. |
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| | tothreaten to thrash without carrying it out. : you can't catch me (child threatened running away). |
|
| | time to catch ..., atdawn. |
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| | (vague meaning) toimportune, continually changing subject of conversation. |
|
| | diamond, diamond (playing card) . : the ace of diamonds. |
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| | lateafternoon. : to wait till the cool of the day to ... |
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| | hottest part of the day (afternoon). : to wait till, or do when ... |
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| | ademon . possessed of a demon. |
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| | . : to fix atime, toregulate, to keep to the time prescribed. |
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| | :adaptation,preparation suited to one's destiny. : madeapt,skilful in art, composition. : a certainrite (formerly), to prepare, to adapt performer, esp. to make him skilful, apt in an art. |
|
| | antiquated word for : towait. |
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| | late atnight,midnight, two or three hours before or after. : very late, after midnight, unfavourable, unseasonable time. : to wait till ..., to do, to accomplish at unfavourable time, at wrong time. |
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| | evening,late in the day, night. : it is evening. : late evening, 7 or 8 o'clock. : adv.this evening. : on the evening of ... : one evening. :last evening. : when it was evening, when evening came. : to wait till evening, to do at ... |
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| | late evening. being late in the evening. |
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| | abird.
.end of twilight, beginning ofnight. : to wait till dark, to do when ...
.beginning tolight up, toblaze. : to makeignite, to light up. |
|
| | tattooing,tattoo. to tattoo, tocut. : to do tattoo. :shavings (of wood). : to tattoo. : : shading, filling in. : ... colour in. : charm to succeed. : the shark tooth used as stylet. : large tattoo on back. : ... at the limit of skirt. : ... in form ofdart. |
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| | freq. of many compound words.
.: dryness, aridity. dried,dry,arid, very ..., altogether ... ... :copra. : time of greatdrought. : my throat is dry. : I am verythirsty. : I am thirsty. : to dry, to make dry, thirsty, arid, causing thirst.
.small pieces oftimber terminating parvis of canoe, between and . |
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| | Lutianus kasmira. stripedsnapper (mainly yellow with four bright blue lines on its body) (hh). |
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| | kind of mobilecyst under the skin. |
|
| | superlative of. running about continually, moving<move>. |
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| | superlative of. . tocut, tohit, tostrike out in all directions, tostruggle with flapping tail as shark, eels, etc., when caught. |
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| | a shortcord attached at the middle to afishhook and thentwisted into one as a link to the principal fish line. to engage in twisting to a fishhook a short segment of line by which it is to be finally connected with the mainline. |
| | dem. (Butari and Makin)these. :
.a strongcord tying hook to line. |
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| | to provide a fishhook with a short segment of line by which it is to be finally connected with the main line. |
|
| | superlative of: havinggreyhair.
.: totremble with fear, toshiver with cold, to have teethchattering. : a shivering type of person. : to make ... |
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| | (more used than ) toshout, toclamour, to speak in high-pitched voice. to shout loudly, tocall out. : to make ...
.cackle. : the fowl is cackling. |
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| | noisygames, ,play (in general), amusement,diversion,entertainment,pastime,sport. to play, toamuse oneself. : plaything,toy. : to amuse, to make play. : to make fun of. |
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| | verywhite. great whiteness. |
| | superlative of. verywhite. |
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| | stickydirt,mud,slime,mire,dung,filth, foul dirt. : to dirty, to soil, tobesmear, tobedaub, tosmear, to soil, tobesmirch, etc. |
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| | superlative of: covered withpools of water, havesound ofliquid when shaken. : to cover with ..., to make give ..., sound. |
|
| | consciousness. : he is fully conscious, has mindalert. : he has lost his head, he is rambling<ramble>, no longer conscious of ... |
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| | : . tospeak quickly inshrill voice which can't be understood. |
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| | superlative of: spread,scattered about. : to scatter, to spread, tostrew around. look at the state of his land! |
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| | superlative of. (food, etc.). becomingrare, gettingscarce, nearlyexhausted, almost nothing left. |
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| | outstanding,evident,obvious,standing out,isolated,solitary (one among many). : person isolated, solitary,alone,forsaken.
.: italone, all alone,unique. |
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| | moving in all directions, as if disjointed. in continualmovement, unable to keep still, craze fortravelling. : to make move ..., to give no rest to ... |
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| | to emit or throw off sparks. the throwing off of many sparks. |
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| | to be verythirsty. very great thirst. |
| | : from . verydry, dry, dried up, verythirsty, extremelyarid. : to dry thoroughly, to give great thirst. |
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| | toshout. a shout, a shouting. |
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| | toshout, to utter with a shout. |
|
| | superlative of: to give a muffledsound when rattled, toshake, torattle. ( S.). : to make ... |
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| | (1)socket of canoe mast, (N.), (S.), at each end of canoe. (2) n. a species ofsea urchin.
..dry. (1)copra, dried coconut kernel.(2) a nut brought by sea currents, used to perfume oil. |
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| | superlative of. brightred, gleaming red. . |
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| | duck .
.grasshopper.
.:sticking out,exceeding ..., dominating<dominate> in height, length. : his voicestands out, dominates. .
.abird (Phaeton) with two red feathers in tail (Phaeton rubriacuda mela norhynchos), rarely seen in Gilbert Islands,sign,omen of death for person of clan of which it is totem.
.corner of canoesail where yard arms meet. .
.: a slight backwardmovement of surprise. abashed,surprised,dumbfounded,sheepish,crestfallen. : we were left ... : to make ..., to surprise, to abash ..., to remove pawn or piece at game of draughts, chess, to take someone down a peg.
.: nativeboxingglove made of cord. :leggings of warrior,gaiters. |
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| | superlative of. : verybright andkeen after sharpening. |
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| | superlative of: reddish,russet. : brightred. : to make ... |
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| | : abroom, esp. garden broom. : tosweep the ground, ... leaves.
.regularsound of repeatedbeats (footsteps, horse's gallop, beating of drum, etc.). : to beat (drum, etc.), to drum on ..., tostrum on, totap on repeatedly. |
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| | of. signifying not whollyfalling short. |
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| | anotch,gash. tocut a little, to cut out. : to make first cut, first notch, to make notches. |
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| | what one says, tosay ... : ... said that, ...think, ...believe that. : I said, I just thought, Isuppose. : I thought it was not forbidden. : to make say, to force to talk. .
.: form somewhatcurved,bent.
.(1) : afish. . (2) an ancientadze made from shell (or iron nowadays). |
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| | Coryphaena hippurus (coryphaenidae). dolphin. |
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| | to have, to carry on one's person all kinds ofmagic,garlands,amulets, to be well protected. |
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| | ...:father, my father, your ... : ...uncle. : father ..., apriest. : toadopt as ...
.: toclimb, togo up (a tree, etc.),spreading (skin disease). : manner of climbing of grown up men (hand and foot one after the other). : abastard,illegitimate child. ,: to make ... to let climb. ,,. |
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| | superlative of pejorative of. aseducer, a Don Juan. |
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| | sandals. to have ..., to wear ...
.: toclimb on to, to climb over. : don't climb over me. |
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| | adiligent climber. diligence (in general). . |
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| | to take as afather, to make a father of one. |
| | small island in extreme south of Gilbert Group (4.3.1894, Cary).
to look upon, toadopt as one's father. |
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| | of (with larger meaning of). |
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| | climb. to climb. kinds: . |
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| | soul,spirit,picture,image,portrait,photograph,tableau,statue. : to make images, topaint, tocarve, etc. ... : painter,artist,sculptor, photographer. : todraw, to paint, to photograph, etc. . : photographer. : showing pictures,films,cinema. |
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| | Samoa Islands. : genealogical tree of Samoa. ,,. |
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| | of: torise up, tolift a little (for ex. outrigger float of canoe just out of water). : to make ... |
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| | plural of : the. : (the) sinners.
.: asheltered place, protected from wind, rain. :stifling, no air. : to shelter, toprotect, todefend, toscreen from ... protect,cover, defend,safeguard. : protection, safeguarding. : shelter,refuge,asylum. : thing which protects, shelters (roof, wall).
.in compound words only. facing towards, looking towards. : be facing interlocutor or person in question. : toface this way, toturn this way. : to turn, to place face to ..., this side. : to turn, tolook away, ... in opposite direction. : to turn to the opposite side, to make turn away. : from west face the east. : from west, place or turn facing east. : from south face to the north. : place or turn facing the north. : from the east face to the west. : place or turn to face the west. : from north face to south. : place or turn facing south. : facing the south. : turn towards the south. : facing north. : to turn towards north. : facing east. : to turn towards east. : facing west. : turn towards west.
.ton . |
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| | turned away, facing opposite side. toturn away, to turn around. : to turn to the opposite side, the other side. ... . . |
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| | : towind incoil (cord, line, rope) with left hand.
.act of rolling. toroll, towind.
.: actualoccupation,execution of work, being in the course of doing, occupied at, the work is being carried<carry> on, in course of execution. : they are occupied in making copra. go on!continue!
.topaint, towhitewash, totar.
.: to havecarnaldesire, tocovet ... :concupiscence. |
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| | : to be in the course ofbeating (). |
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| | : agust of wind in a sheltered place (). . |
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| | Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepede (y). (two french accents on name). wrasse (sm). |
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| | : tostrip offbedizenment, toundo, tounwind fishing net wound around one. : to strip the altar (of cloths, decorations), to undo anything wrapped around, enveloping. : stick used to carry fish net or to fix ... : aspool, abobbin, stick for winding string, cord. |
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| | magic to attract, promotelove. . to do magic to ... |
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| | ascarf,sash of leaves worn as decoration. : ... tostrip sash off vanquished in competition, to degrade. |
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| | accustomed to,used to,wonted. wontedness, the state of being accustomed.
tobeg, by word or attitude, as for food before mealtime. |
| | :habit,custom, accustomed to, in the habit of ... : I amused to ... . : a polite way of saying he shows his longing (for food). ...: to give, to get the habit, to accustom, to get accustomed, to get used to, to train to ..., toexperiment. :apprenticeship,training,novitiate, to do one's ..., to train. |
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| | to partake offood unceremoniously. |
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| | a mode offishing. to fish with a aided or supplemented by a . |
| | tofish with net in shallow water. : tocollect, tocatch fish scattered in shallow water at low tide. |
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| | of (in poetry). desire,love. : his love has faded, is gone.
.: acry,plaint,wail,complaint, reclamation,sound,siffle,peal,creak. : to cry, to shed tears, to complain, to squeak, tolament, toreclaim, to sound, toring, togrind, tocrack, towhistle, tohiss, tosing (bird). : the cockcrows. : the current makes an audible noise. : I'll pinch you to make you cry. : to make cry ..., toresound, etc., to ring (bell), toplay (musical instrument). : to make squeak (rope in block) by slackening. : to slacken clew line. slacken the reins, give free rein to ... : a call, cooee, whistle, sound of whistle. : musicalinstrument. : rope connecting top of mast to ends of canoe. |
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| | tospread, toextend, todevelop (wings, etc.), to spread out, todiffuse. : stretched out on the ground.
.marriedcouple,group, in groups. go in ... : anarmy,battalion.
.nativearmour made of closely woven string covering entire body.
.: rising upright. torise upright, to let go (fish hook, fingers, giving way),let go, togive way. abandon, giving in, cease resisting, unable to resist. : to makeyield, tocede, to lose hold, to abandon, toresist. |
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| | amixture of two different kinds of food. : scraped coconut and . : scraped coconut and taro. : taro, molasses and coconut milk. : scraped coconut andkabubu.
.tomix, toknead, toblend, two or more ingredients. |
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| | superlative of. covered with repugnantfilth,pus. : to cover with ... |
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| | . : . goingtogether, in crowds, in swarms, to betossed about together from side to side (as shoal of fish). :
.superlative of n.a.. : open hands, losinghold, unable to hold on to ... |
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| | tending to perfection,perfect. : a perfect piece of wood. : a perfect man. |
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| | themind. I lost mysenses, my senses darted away quickly. |
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| | funeral lamentation. tolament over dead person, for departure of spirit (). : to lament over ... |
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| | : the news hasspread abroad, is noised abroad ..., made known. : (S.) to noise abroad, to spread, to give free vent to gossip. |
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| | superlative of: persistentnoise, rolling ...,humming, humming of insects, motors,roar,peal. |
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| | :noise, whistling<whistle>,hissing of (small empty coconut shell that the diviner makes spin and whistle on the end of a string). : to make ..., whistle while turning. |
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| | feeblesound. . : to make ... |
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| | . tangio, tangiongio, tangiongio nako:going, decreasing<decrease> in going, dying<die> away, gettinglost in the distance. |
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| | love,charity,affection,desire.
.: tolove, tocherish, to have affection for, todesire, towish, towant, tocovet, tocrave. : his love for : his love for me. : ... for us. : passive love, love for him. ) object of my (thy) love. : () apresent,gift (my present). :compassion,pity, compassionate. : mutual affection, to love one another. : (person). (objects).
syn. n.a.. |
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| | to give forth anoise as thetearing of cloth or the unrolling of . |
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| | : toscream, tocry loudly to get ..., to demand with a loud voice (desired object). : to make ... |
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| | of. complaints,sighs,lamentations,claims,sobbing. tocomplain, towhine, tomoan, tocry, togrieve. song of birds, music, playing musical instrument. : to make music, toplay an instrument, to make cry, ... scream. (or ) :musicalinstrument. |
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| | tolove (used with the prefix ). they love one another. |
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| | finedust,remains,crumbs. . : togather, toscrape up the remains. : to scrape up the last bit, to scrape the bottom ..., to drain the last dregs; to reach the bottom of ..., sack, etc. |
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| | roundsepals at tail end of coconut. : to take off ..., to knock off these ... |
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| | a plural form equivalent to the english suffix -ers. . |
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| | : thing putaside,reserve, achange<spare>. : anextra fish hook to change. : a reserve for time of famine. : undue occupation of house, to come by hazard to replace absent owner, temporary replacement.
.topenetrate into, to take possession of ..., tohold as one's own. : he ispossessed by the devil. : lit. sickness holds me, ... persists. |
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| | fish which stay always among the same rocks. |
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| | thewestern side. on the west side, facing from the west. |
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| | thesouth side. on the south side, facing from the south. |
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| | fullmoonn, theeast side. on the east side, facing from the east. |
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| | thenorth side. on the north side, facing from the north. |
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| | ear,ear ring, ear ornament. : a flower for my ear. : :idem. : bent ears, like crab's claws. : earbashing,deafening with words. : well-trained, well brought up. : toplug, tostuff, tostave in ears. : totrain him well. following compound words:,,.
.: towait. wait for me! |
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| | wait for , to wait a long time. : a light, persistent rain. |
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| | . strangeear, listening or obeying only when it pleases. |
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| | . deafness,deaf. pretending deafness, not listening to anything. |
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| | having large broadears. a person with large broad ears. |
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| | name given to alleels with pectoral fins. |
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| | quick tohear, hearing readily. quickness of hearing. |
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| | person withears standing out. . |
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| | lazy, indisposed toeffort. laziness, indisposition to effort. |
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| | obeying with bad grace, using subterfuges. |
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| | :unseizable, unable to be taken because of littleness or distance,out of reach, fleeting,distant. : a distant country. : to make ... |
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| | type of person attached to a place or person,sedentary,fixed to. : . |
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| | . : a seconddish accompanying the main dish. : eat coconut with fish. |
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| | cord rolled up, inhanks. ...: toroll ... : to put in hanks by hand. |
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| | . diffused,spread on all sides. : the smell is diffused. : ... the exhalationsmells good.
.a period of steadywind before change. |
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| | between twoseasons,period when wind and currents are settled before changing direction. |
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| | sand,soil,clay,ground,land. : my land, my piece of ground, my property. : under the ground. :minerals,underground. : on the ... : covered with sand, soil, dust, dusty. : full of sand (food). : to cover with soil, sand. different kinds of soil: :fine sand, wind blown. . : sandy soil. :humus,manure. : having dark and lightlayers. : whitish,limy soil. :fertile soil. : whitegranulated sand, the kind used to stick on cheeks in certainmagicalrites. : black soil. (N.), (S.): reddish sand underground.
.(no article)ten million (obsolete). a bigcrowd. :countless, as grains of sand. |
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| | greatlyexcited as a multitude as by a rumor ofwar. |
| | lost,invisible in a cloud of dust,whirling,seething (excited crowd, surging sea, tumultuous waves). . to throw intopanic, to causestampede, confusion,helter skelter, toexcite, toagitate. |
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| | full ofsand (food), sand on face formagic. : to put in, to put sand on face. |
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| | : aspot, amark, a skindisease. mottled,spotted,speckled,dappled, ormildewed. ...: to speckle with, to spot ..., to mark ..., to make ... : to speckle, to spot. |
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| | the keepingwatch, watchfulness over a place. to keep watch, to remain onguard. |
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| | perhaps, incase,<maybe>. : perhaps there are some or perhaps there are none. ...: if bychance I ... : perhaps yes, perhaps no.
.asaw .
.:overflowing, pouring out, toofull, too much,superabundant. : to make or let overflow, topour out, to filltoo full, to put inexcess, to let go towaste, todeduct, to take off. see compound words.
.of and . see following compound words. |
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| | stoppage in walking, working,halt,stop. to pitchcamp, tostrike, to go on strike. : encampment, halting place, camp. : you are not in a hurry so come in here! |
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| | ,: totravel over country, islands. |
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| | : tosqueeze, to put throughpresser (coconut to extract oil). : an oil press. |
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| | to subject ripecoconuts to the process of extracting oil by pressure. |
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| | a kind offishing. to fish by putting in position a at high water, and securing the fish at low water. |
| | : tofish for ...
.wier of mats to stop back fish at low tide.
.. . tomoderate, torestrain, toquell, to keep at low level, toprevent development, to put astop to ... : he stops the news from being noised abroad, tohush up the affair. |
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| | tothrow low in thegame of . a method of playing by throwing the club low. |
| | a manner ofthrowing stick ingame called . : to hit in falling. |
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| | to throw one's missile too low in the game of . |
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| | : totuck in the edges (mosquito net, mat). |
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| | to fish with the aid of a . a mode offishing. |
| | a manner offishing with a heap of stones , or with bait tied at the side of hook. |
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| | to put (young coconut husks) to soak in pit covered with stones. |
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| | tospace thedays, to leave days in between regulations and observances. . |
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| | to occupy a place belonging to or assigned to another. the unauthorizedoccupation of a place assigned to another. |
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| | down by thestern. a secondaryweapon. to press by the stern. |
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| | to engage infollowing up or after. the employment of following up or after with respect tooversight.
to follow up or after. |
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| | to take off scum, froth, toskim. : to take off, to skim off ... |
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| | to engage inwaylaying. the occupation of a place assigned to another. |
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| | computation. tocompute the months ofgestation by deduction () minus one, minus two. |
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| | : to attract, to catch dragonflies<dragonfly> with flexible stem () on which they come to perch. |
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| | : I'll have fortywinksnap>.
.floater, used by divers when fishing. tofish in this manner. |
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| | . tofix end by tying to something.
.v.t. (irr.) : tokeep, tohold the place of ... (replace me, you, him, etc.). |
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| | tofollow up a person who has gone, to follow after. |
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| | : myturn, your turn to act, to set about to... : to bebusy doing,occupied at,absorbed by, to give a hand, tolean on, toforce down. : he is at work.
.: patience,endurance,self control. to have patience, to bepatient, tocurb, torestrain ... |
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| | (sometimes), (freq.). to putweight on, tolean on, topress on, totrample on, tocompress, to press down, to apply weight on, tocrush, tooverwhelm, tolower, tosmother, tocurb, to hold by pressure, by weight, tosubmit, tosubdue, toovercome, to apply pressure on. control yourself! have patience! |
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| | to put oneself in the place left vacant by another (to gain or hold affection, kind ofmagic), toreplace. : tooccupy the place of ... |
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| | to makecommon cause with, to be one with. |
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| | to putobstacle in front of, to put obstacles in the way of, ... by surging crowd, tostop the advance of ..., toforestall, tooust, to take the initiative. |
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| | the placing of last pieces of thatch or ridge capping ofroof. |
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| | :patience,endurance,self control, patient enduring. : to curb one's instincts, to be patient, to endure,support, keepcalm, make efforts to ... : patience,resignation, keeping calm. |
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| | : toreef, to lessen size ofsail, to take in a reef. |
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| | spread out on all sides,extending, spreading, covering space all around. : to spread, to extend all over. : to spread (news) on all sides. |
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| | : totuck in edges (of mosquito net), to turn up ahem. |
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| | totuck in, as a mosquito netting. |
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| | a mode offishing by night on the ocean side. |
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| | : to wait tilltide goes out in order to fish with line at night on ocean side. |
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| | tosit orstand on anout-rigger in order to give more weight. a sitting or standing on an arm of an outrigger in order to give more weight.
to weight an outrigger with people. |
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| | salt. . : to put salt on, to salt. . |
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| | : preservation. topreserve, to halt deterioration, todehydrate, todry fish or other food in order to make it keep in good condition. |
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| | to fish with the bait on the bottom and the line sometimes buried in the sand. a mode offishing. |
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| | to put downbow net,eel pot with sinker. : totie together, to make eel pot. : to pull up ... |
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| | dollar .
.bathtowel, hand towel. : towipe, to wipe with ..., to dry yourself.
.: to throw water over, tosprinkle.
.in compound words following: : tolook, toregard, toexamine, toconsider. : keep aneye on the child,watch it, look after it : to watch attentively, to beawake,vigilant, not asleep. : look,expression,air,manner,appearance, looks,physiognomy. : to try to see, torecognize. : to make look, to help to look, tosee. :binoculars,field glasses,opera glasses. ,, etc.
.:air,look,aspect,likeness. ... ... : he looks gentle, peaceful. |
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| | very much indisposed to work. |
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| | Harengula kunzei (ll). herring (sm).
.Spratelloides delicatulus (ll). herring (sm). |
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| | totalk much about what one greatlydesires. much talk about what one desires. |
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| | (1) afish. (2) aweed. (3) aseed resembling chestnut from foreign tree. (4) a fisherman'shat made of pandanus leaves. (5) afish. Scaridae. |
| | Euphorbia chamissonis Boiss. (z). |
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| | Strena lunata. <bird>grey backedtern (The adult is similar in build to thesooty tern but slightly smaller and the upper parts are soft grey instead of sooty black; The underparts are white and the feet and bill black. The head is ... except for a white forehead and a white band extending back above each eye.) (aa). |
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| | past andgone (time). : hemissed out on his day. : his time is passed. : his time to run is passed. |
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| | to faceupwards (persons, things), to look upwards, toraise head, eyes. : to find oneself, to put oneself face upwards. : to be lying, tolie on back, face up, ...<supine>. : to put, to place, to turn right side up. : to put the opening up, to put or to turn its face upwards. |
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| | (in the sense of sight) state ofvigil, application, looking,attention, vigilance. to keepwatch, tolook well at, to pay attention, to takenotice, to beawake, vigilant, attentive. : the fish is not cooked. : the watcher,sentry,waylayer,inspector,superintendent,guard. : to look attentively, ... at length, to observe, to examine, to inspect, to supervise. : to show, to help to see, to tell to watch. |
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| | Cook Island, discovered by Gilbert and Marshall, 20th June, 1788. Seat of administration for Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. |
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| | :nausea,disgust. to get nausea from looking ... . to look at with disgust. |
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| | :deficiency,insufficiency,lack of, scarcity,want. difficult to find, to procure, veryrare. : my provisions are nearly finished. : my hand can't reach ... : he is out of his depth. : that is beyond us. :scarce, causing scarcity. |
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| | (1) (no article)sea,salt water,sea water. : in the sea. : salt. (2) salted and driedfish. : salty. : to salt, to besalted. ,.
.:brother (of a boy),sister (of a girl). : Bauro's brother. : Maria's sister. ,. :cousin; for very distant relationship. . . :lay brother. :fraternity, to act as, to treat as brother or sister.
.:sap,juice of coconut spathe. : to have, to give juice. full of juice. : to take one's quota of juice to the cooperative where each member takes turn to transform it into molasses by boiling.
.: thewake of fish, ... canoe. to make or leave a ... : wake or troubled waters indicating passage of shoal of mud scavenger fish.
.pref. fig. of prec. word forming some compound words. ,. |
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| | having double appearance,deceptive, sane andmad at intervals. |
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| | calm aspect,quiet (person), calm (sea), calm, no wind. : to make become ..., to find ..., to declare. |
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| | : awell (etc.) giving little orbad water. |
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| | troubled waters, dull sea, sky. hazy,misty,steamy. : to make ..., to find ..., to trouble. . ...: value of rumours, hazy ...,uncertain ... : interiortrouble,discontent,smoulderinganger. |
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| | a smallportion offood set apart before beginning toeat, as a sort of first fruits.
brackish. a portion ofland having brackish water. |
| | place where water is brackish,brackish water. : a littlesalty, very ... (water). : to make or find ...
.(1)remains of provisions from voyage. (2) portion offered to visitor, who shares it with host. |
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| | . said ofspathe when juice diminishes or of the awkward person who gets less and less from it. : todecrease quantity of juice, to cause to ... |
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| | taken out orremovedunscraped, as thekernel from the shell. a portion of the kernel of a ripecoconut which comes out in a piece while it is being scraped. |
| | a piece cut off. : it iscut, cut up. : to cut up, to cut in pieces (the kernel of coconut with special knife) (copra knife). |
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| | (1) traces of dirt left by feet, footprints, path traced. (2) noise offootsteps of unseen passerby. |
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| | stronger term than : quitecrazy. |
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| | . Echeneis (echeneidae). remora. |
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| | worship. to worship, to engage in worship. |
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| | . (1) towet the grinding stone, the whet stone. (2) to make anincantation on toddy knife, on weapons. |
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| | of. slightlyblunt; (more usual). : getting blunt, taking edge off. : totruncate, tomutilate words by precipitation. : to make slightly blunt. |
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| | tothrow up food gently as an infant, topuke. 'the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms' Shakespeare. the gentle puking of an infant. |
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| | . : one, two,blows in quick succession, rapid successivemovements (as stone bouncing several times). : tostumble, totrip, toreel, tofalter, to make false step (faux pas) in walking or speaking. , etc.: to make precipitated jerkyraps, blows, movements, to make stumble, todrum on, to hit on with rapid successive raps,taps.
.of compound words: ,,,,,.
.: tocut, tocarve, to cutnotches, toindent. |
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| | oneeach, one by one.
frequentative of. |
| | : toeach one some ..., units, tens, hundreds, etc. . . |
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| | containing more thanten each, as bunches ofcoconuts. . |
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| | frequentative of.
frequentative of. |
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| | freq. of sup. of : tomoveaway by becoming detached. |
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| | frequentative of towait for.
frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative of. frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative of. frequentative of. |
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| | frequentative of. frequentative of. |
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| | from Samoan :prayer. : to pray. : to pray God. : to pray to ..., to address ..., to ask God.
.(,). naturally hesitating, of staggering gait, badly balanced, taking false steps. tohesitate, tostumble, toblunder in speaking, acting, goingobliquely (canoe). or: badly balanced canoe with too short. : stumbling legs. |
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| | declining habitually toloan. |
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| | dash -- a punctuation mark .
.acrustacean.
.scissors (from crab'spincers).
.steepness,abruptness, steep cut, ...precipitous,perpendicular, clearcut, cutstraight,sheer. :half moon, cut straight across the middle. : it is steep, abrupt. : to cut, to slash straight, sheer, to cut short, make cease, tointerrupt abruptly. |
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| | (1) afish,garfish. (2)partridge fish. (3) aplant. Doloris regis.
.(1) :tritonconch,trumpetshell. (2) largesea slug with thin shell. (3)ampullaceousconch ().
.(1) . fitness, sufficiency, suitability. suitable,fit,proper,sufficient,congruous in quantity and quality. : allright, that'sgood, that'senough. : sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. :serves you right! you got what you deserve. : to givesatisfaction to ...,content ... : to find good, to fit, toconsent to ..., totolerate, topermit, toapprove, toallow. : permission, approbation, consent. (2)disposition,preparation, preparatives. :pfovidence of God. : to getready, toprepare. get yourself ready! : preparations for departure. : preparations for passage of fish. : I am going toprospect. : looks as if they are a goodmatch. :nearly,almost, enough.
.of several compound words meaningenough,fit.
.of : tohold, tokeep. |
| | Tonna perdix (gastropod). snail. |
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| | (1) keepingaccounts,register, account book,diary,memoirs,registration, etc. ... (2) :magicalcharm, etc., to keep for self the love of an absent one. : tokeep, toattach (person) by means of charms, magicalincantations. |
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| | magical practice to immunize young climber against falling. |
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| | small schoolingfish, often caught by terns and dropped from their nests. (ll). |
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| | tohold, tokeep jealously (place, situation, advantages, rights acquired). :jealousy of rights. |
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| | to engage in performing anincantation to prevent earlysenility. an incantation to prevent senility. |
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| | to perform on with reference to preventing earlysenility. |
|
| | to offer food or other thing as an offering to adeity. |
|
| | : to havechin resting on palm of hands. : ... on back of clasped hands. |
|
| | adance imported from Samoa.ballet with singing, march rhythm. to dance this ... |
|
| | : executing withexactitude,prompt, finishing in fixed time. : to do ..., to finish at ... |
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| | to takenote of ..., tomark downfaults and failings,errors,mistakes. :corrector,censor,critic. : to note, to mark faults, errors, mistakes of ..., torevise, to correct, tojudge, tocriticize, to censor. |
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| | notparticular, not putting on afinish. want of particularity in putting on a finish. |
|
| | habit of disorderliness. disorderly, indisorder. :idem. to put in ... |
|
| | a longspear with branches opposite one another. |
| | a longlance (14 to 18 feet) with double prong behind point to make opponent's weapon deviate. |
|
| | to fish with alog orboard for acanoe. the method offishing in which a log or rail takes the place of a canoe. |
|
| | : sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. |
|
| | branchystem on which coconuts develop. : white inside ofspathe. : fair-skinned younggirl. |
|
| | rope connecting top of mast to stern of canoe. (because of creaking noise it makes). |
|
| | ...: on theedge,above. for ex. on thebrink of a well, on the edge of a pond, a pit. ...
.: tobury, tocover up with soil, sand. : to bury in ground. |
|
| | : tofluctuate, to come and go, to be thrown from side to side, to beagitated, to be pushed about. . : he gives us no peace. : to make, to push, to throw, to agitate. . |
|
| | sharkfishing. to fish with hook made of hard wood () formerly. |
|
| | acoconut, either a or , which falls to the ground prematurely. |
| | (1) kind of hardsepals joining coconut to stem. (2) detachedcoconut. : to detach coconuts from. |
|
| | small coralpebbles (used for counting, lots). . |
|
| | alamp,lantern, electriclight,flashlight. :candle (ancient name: ). : oil lamp. .
.suspension,joints,tendons,ligaments,nerves,muscles. :achilles tendon.
.tolift up a little, toraise ..., or tohang up.
.: sprinkle. :hanger,lamp pendant,hook, hatpeg. |
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| | : toinhale upwards (as fish after bait, asthmatic after air). ... |
|
| | toroll as aship. the rolling as of a ship. |
|
| | : to follow up andsupervise (children at play, prisoners at work ...). |
|
| | Promichthys prometheus (ll). oilfish (gb). |
|
| | a very largemat almost size. |
|
| | search for marine food in a place remote, or occasionally visited. to engage in finding some marine food to eat in a place remote. |
| | :assiduity in seeking miserable pittance, difficult to find. |
|
| | lastremnants,crumbs,bits,scraps. : there is nothing left but ... : to reduce to ..., to be reduced to ..., togather up, to use to the last scrap. : sup. to leave nothing ..., no one. |
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| | : to try acanoe to see how it reacts in water. |
|
| | to engage inholding or retaining.
an effort to quiet afight. |
| | (1) : tohold, toguide by hand (cane, canoe). (2) to hold, tograb, toimpede from fighting. : he refuses to be held. : ordinary word forrape. : notorious,feared, person in habit of ...
.a fatpig. |
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| | to treat one withstinginess.
asoldier, a company of soldiers. probably a corruption of the english word soldiers [but = thorny skin of a used as a helmet]. |
| | : to beniggardly ... towards, to refuse to give throughmeanness. : we got nothing, we were refused.
.. soldier. |
|
| | stingy, very stingy. great stinginees. |
|
| | Charonia tritonis (gastropod). snail. |
|
| | fry of , fry,chanos,milk fish.
.: maturity. mature,ripe, red ripe. old, very old. :ripen, let ripen.
.dry, dried, dried in the sun.
.: tospread out to dry, todry, to put to dry, tohang out to dry. : the child issun burned. |
|
| | (1) name of ancient man. . (2) distant<land> country to which went for . :shout from a distance.
.: verydistant,far away in space, out of reach. : seen under ..., in the distance. |
|
| | pointed end of aerial root chewed to soften it, for runningknot. : to break this at the join. : tobreak the bonds, to break an engagement, to give adispensation. |
|
| | species ofeel with long head, non oily. |
|
| | a nativeoil press. : tosqueeze in press, to squeeze grated coconut to extract oil. |
|
| | a place stripped of vegetation, lessarid thandesert, sandy soil often submerged. |
|
| | a little pastnoon. being a little past noon. |
|
| | : paleness,sallowness. pale,wan,ghastly. to become pale (from faintness, shame, anger), toblush. : he is pale, he is becoming pale. : to make, to become ... |
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| | from wheel. to put throughmincer. . |
|
| | a always followed by a numeral suffix, or a certain noun the expletive euphonic being always added. .
tohiss, as fryingfish, or asfermentingkarewe. |
| | the.a<an>. the indefinite article one can be used as , but generally by . both and are used together. . .
.:fizzingsound, bubbling,fermenting,seething,noise made byeffervescence. toboil, to fizz, tobubble, tofroth, to ferment. : to bring to the boil. :toddy brought to boiling point only to prevent fermentation. fig. :stir up the discussion.
.in compound words:,. of . |
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| | one, one piece (of game). : one shark (caught). (a live shark). |
|
| | one, in countinghardware,furniture,chests,barrels,timber,coconut-leaf stems,fingers,teeth, largefish, assharks and . |
|
| | : a species of , special to Abaiang.<fish>. |
|
| | (1) : todart, topop, tojump by projection, toburst out, to pop up, to break away, to come out of place (mechanism), to jump up, ... aside, ... away. : one, two, three jumps. (2) :floats on fishing net. (3) : end of germinating bud breaking through coating or shell of seed. : to make jump out, come out of place, shoot out, tofillip with finger, to let fly, topick, topeck. :catch of ...,padlock, trap with catch,click,pawl.: abow,sling,catapult. : tohunt with weapons. : the fowl peck. : tolimp, tohop, tohobble, to limp slightly. |
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| | tostrike against or upon as spilt hot water, or sand, or sparks. |
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| | : todive, toplunge. springing up,determination,resolution, to act with ..., tolaunch out, tostart out in a certain direction. ; bathing, tobathe, tobath, toshower, to have ..., to take ... : : to put into water, tosoak, tosteep in water. |
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| | : topour water on, towash, tobathe, tobath, tocleanse, to wash one's face, tobaptize. : hewaters his plants. ...: watering, washing, etc. , etc.: my bath water, your ..., etc. : draw water for my bath. fig. :reparation,meal,appeasement ..., given to someone to wash away offence, wrongs, wounds inflicted. |
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| | prow plunging (canoe), todive like a dolphin, head first. |
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| | : diving<dive> forward, advancing<advance> resolutely with provocative look. |
|
| | v.t. : toplay at throwingwater on each other. : to throw water on ...: reciprocaldrenching. |
|
| | diving<dive> down, towards the west. |
|
| | :standing position, attitude, posture. : to stand, to be standing upright, to stand up, to bestationary, tohalt, tostop, towait, tohesitate, to beundecided. : wait a minute! stop! : myturn, your turn, to be onduty. : to put standing up, to putupright, totrain, toerect, tobuild, toconstruct, tofound, toinstitute, toplant. :edifice,monument,building,invention,foundation. custom,practice,manners,traditions,procedure,method,manner of doing,way of living. : ancient custom. : native custom :architect,builder. :slope,escarpment, sloping,steep. : tolift arms, hands. : construction,construct. : to build onpiles,platforms.
.. (S.): child,. Butari). :boy,girl. :young woman, young girl. : young man. : boy, girl not yet quite adult. |
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| | : (1) toguard, towatch, to be onduty, to be on guard. (2) to bedevoted to, to keep at (one's work) until finished. |
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| | to engage in treating a person withneglect. |
|
| | one, used in counting divisions ofpan. |
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| | standing up, tostandup, to get up, tobegin. : the work hascommenced. ...: to begin to ... : to make get up ..., toset to work. |
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| | toundertake (a work), to set to ... : they have undertaken the plantation ... |
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| | : myseat, your ... dwelling,domicile,residence. : seat (general),chair,stool,armchair, etc. : tosit, to be seated, toreside, todwell. , ...: to make be seated ..., dwell, to give or assign as residence, dwelling, domicile, to set up in fixed dwelling. : a sitting position in dances, legs crossed, ready to rise. : to have ..., to take for one's seat, domicile, to sit on, to be seated on, to reside at, to dwell at ... |
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| | :hit,struck,pierced,punctured, hit or struck by a shot,beaten by a rival,reached,touched,wounded,pricked. : the fish ishooked, struck, pierced by harpoon. : my hand is wounded, pricked. : he is never hit,outrun, beaten. |
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| | beaten both ways, going and coming (race). :pierced through and through,transpierced. : toflow from large wound, from hole, to flow into recipient, through channel, to flow towards, to flow through. : to make flow, to establish acurrent towards, to direct the flow. : tohit, totouch, towin, toprick, to pierce, to transpierce, toaim at, topoint at, tosteer to. :thorn, sharppoint,dart. : prickly,sharp,painful, thorny, spiky, rough. : a good fishing ground. |
|
| | ,: spread,reached all auditors in their places (news, rumours, tales). : to make reach the ears of all, toinform everybody, to spread the news everywhere. |
|
| | success. fortunate, lucky. to have goodluck. . : to make succeed, to cause success. : cause of good luck. |
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| | :caught by thelips,allured, caught,charmed by attraction, taste, satisfied (antinomy), well caught,punished, have fingers burned,disappointed. :seduction,attraction. alluring, charming, seducing, tasty,appetizing. : to punish for greediness, to disappoint, to catch, to take in, to disillusion, to undeceive. |
|
| | the name of a certain femalegoddess. |
|
| | some, not all (spoken of persons). |
| | . some, some people (animate beings). |
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| | one, in counting persons or animals. |
|
| | : tosmoke (tobacco, cigar). . |
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| | n.tin .
n.three, always followed by a numeral suffix or by a certain noun, as .
threetwos, used in counting bytwos,six. |
| | , before proper nouns (masculine), before names beginning with T. .
.of compound words meaningthree:. .
.in compound words: by three's,three times. . : three pairs when counting in pairs. : two, four, six, or one pair, two pairs, etc. |
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| | tobite.
a biting, a biting sensation, a closefit. to fit close, to bite. |
| | acidity, sourness. piquant,pungent,stinging, biting,sour,acid,bitter. : to make sting, tocauterize, toburn, tosear, to apply a stingingremedy. : remedy which ...
.: to becrowded,pressed together,close together,wedged,caught,joined, well-joined, badly joined, very near to, almost touching. : to make join, to join by tightening, to close in together, to make catch ..., to wedge ... :pincers,pliers,vice.
.: tobite, to hold between teeth, to hold between two ..., topinch, towedge. |
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| | superlative of: squeezed, held<hold>,gripped very tightly as in vice (: iron), in an iron grip. |
|
| | fishingnet with lead sinkers very closely spaced. |
|
| | n/ai.three, in countinghardware,furniture,chests,barrels,timber,coconut-leaf stems,fingers,teeth, largefish , assharks and . |
| | three (species, kinds, sorts). |
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| | given tobiting. frequentative of a repeated biting. |
|
| | to beout, tostick out, tostand out, toshow, toexhibit, to go beyond. : to make stand out, togo beyond, to try to show off, to exhibit, todistinguish oneself. ,,,,. |
|
| | name of a red deep seafish. |
|
| | n/imæn.three in counting persons and snimals. |
|
| | núa.three, in counting things in general. |
|
| | onepair,two, when counting in pairs. , etc.
.what? (things). what is it like?how is it made? what is that thing? what are you saying? its what? |
|
| | : standing outdistinctly, quite distinct,apparent,visible. : to goforward, to put oneself infront, in evidence. evident,certain,manifest, shown. : toshow, toexhibit, todemonstrate clearly. : to make clear, to manifest, to make evident, toexpose, toexplain, to demonstrate clearly. |
|
| | sail o!cry announcing ship in view. : tosignal arrival of ship by ... |
|
| | (word with double meaning)dance. . : astick used in this dance. |
|
| | toneglect to perform acts of kindness to a deserving one. |
|
| | toassemble after being called or invited. |
|
| | thecalling together of people. r - w. to engage in getting people together. |
|
| | one, in counting things in general. |
| | one, one thing, a certain (thing) used after nouns. : acertain book : one book. : astrange (original,singular) man, aqueer bird (slang). andso? what then? what more? |
|
| | he orhim right there, somewhat near by. |
|
| | Parupeneus chryserodos (ll). goatfish (gb). |
| | Mulloidichthys auriflamma (mullidae). goat-fish. |
|
| | we.
.only. : we only, only us. why did you come? what business had you to come? what business had he to climb the tree?
. shows disgust, discontent, refusal.
.(1) : last born,runt. : theyoungest (the third),myth. (2) adeformed coconut, core of pandanus fruit. sickly,weak,inferior,malformed.
.,tea. :
.: tojet, tospout, togush, tospurt, tosquirt, tospurt. : to start to ... : to make ..., toeject, to squirt, to draw from a tap, toshoot with a gun, tofire on. |
|
| | : the one who. kind of attribute showing state, profession, doer. : worker, artisan. : liar. . : teachers.
.v. before a verb, means past, definitive, terminated. : Ihave eaten: I saw you before. .
.:end, termination,accomplishment. finished,terminated,complete, accomplished. : to finish, to complete, to terminate, to accomplish. take your time! finish what you are doing. let me finish. wait till ...
.:boundary,limit,term,border,frontier. :undercut (fish, meat). : belimitrophe with ...<adjacent to>. . : to fix the limits, to set up boundary stones. :reconnaissance,<survey>, fixing of limits (land). : to pull out, destroy boundary marks. : without limit, without end,eternal. : there is an end to everything. : end of all, the absolutesovereign,supreme,absolute, nothing above or beyond.
.:medusa,jelly fish. |
|
| | (negation)no,not, not at all. : not I, not me. : not mine. |
|
| | before verb.just now,recently,lately, not long ago. : he just woke up. : justnow. : it is just finished.
.: to step out of place, toescape, toslip, to give way, to getloose (mechanism), tomiss by passing. : it slipped out of my hand. : to let slip, tolet go, to let escape, towithdraw, tocontract, to put out of gear, todisunite, to pull aside, to turn away.
.: toshare, toportion, todistribute. : well, badly portioned. :divide in two, ..., three ... : the one who shares, distributes. : the thing to be divided, dividend. : put down shares, establish,allot. : your share has been allotted, is ready. : share, one, two, three ... |
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| | frequentative of.
frequentative of. |
|
| | sheep . :lamb. :shepherd.
.: swelling. toswell, topuff up. swolleninflated,bloated.
.:idem. : toinflate, topump up, toblow up. :balloon,bladder,catkin of bread fruit tree.
.:grandfather,grandmother,grandchild,grandparents and theirancestors, grandchildren and theirdescendants,adopted child, adopter,god father,god mother,god child<grandson,granddaughter>. (special names). or :great grandparents, great grandchildren. : great, great grandparents (3rd generation) (4th generation) (5th generation). |
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| | toadopt, to take for ... : adoption. |
|
| | . : I amfull,stuffed with food or drink. : to makeswell, to stuff, to stuff oneself. |
|
| | (Hawaiian word) to sign by making circle,signature of illiterate (obsolete),sign. . |
|
| | arope used to regulatesail, suspenders, shoulder straps. : to use, to attach by ... |
|
| | bits ofstring, etc., hanging down,swinging like tentacles, floating rumours. |
|
| | tocatch, to catch by putting anet over, tosurround with moving net. : the sun is caught in a net of clouds. |
|
| | . acent, 1100 part of dollar . |
|
| | to come and go continually, to be always moving<move>. . |
|
| | : toslide, toslip, toglide, toglance while making clacking noise () (fish, canoe, rebounding stone, etc.), to glide through water making ... : to makesplashingnoise in gliding over ... |
|
| | (probably from skate) toskate, toslide, toslip over smooth surface. : to make ... |
|
| | stiffness,tension. pulledtight,taut,shrivelled,contracted. : topull tight, totauten, to stiffen, to pull, tohaul, todrag, totow. :contractions,convulsions,epilepsy. to stiffen, to get stiff. :trawlfishing, trawling. : tostroll, to take awalk, toprocess. : tostrut, to throw out chest, to draw oneself up to full height. ,,. |
|
| | smaller, but therefore more suitable for the purpose. |
|
| | a thinrope connecting top sailyard to float of outrigger when the former is higher than the mast. |
|
| | . : topause, tostop, tostay, to make a ..., todwell, tolast, tosojourn, toalight on, toperch on from time to time. often ... (conj.) or : toplace, toput down, toleave in place, to leave behind, toabandon, me, you, him, etc. |
|
| | : toflit about like dragon flies or flies, hardly stopping, to have a craze for moving<move>. ,. |
|
| | Emoia cyanura. Lipinia noctua. Cryptoblepharus boutoni poecilopleurus. allskinks. |
|
| | to greatlydesire or long for, as a certain food or drink. |
| | tolove, todesire vehemently. : to love one another vehemently. |
|
| | said ofdragonfly, whichalights everywhere.staying here and there continually as ..., sometimes with one, sometimes with another. |
|
| | a name forbat (unknown in Gilbert Islands). |
|
| | myth. person who guided in the darkness of : (Myth of Creation). |
|
| | : adrop. todrip, to fall in drops. : to fall in drops,rain just beginning to fall. : to make fall drop by drop, tosprinkle. |
|
| | food (any kind) wrapped and cooked on coals. tocook, toroast in this manner. |
|
| | : todrop on,drops falling on. : the water is dripping on you. |
|
| | :beauty of attire, art, ornamentation, artistic arrangement. beautiful to behold, well dressed, done up well, beautified, embellished,adorned,painted,decorated. : well dressed, well made up,spic and span. : master hand at tying bandages, ligatures. : a niceligature. : tobeautify, toembellish, to make pretty. |
|
| | aspirit,god of inspiration of poets, composers, musicians. |
|
| | (1)mother, adopted mother. :sister(s),nuns, religious. : mother of,base,origin,source of. (mother mine, father mine, archaic, poetical language). : my, thyaunt distantly related. (2) : a stone used forbeating leaves on. (3) : a species ofpandanus. |
|
| | (mother of lies) source of ..., inveterateliar. |
|
| | a special form of relationship, adoption of a married woman by an uncle or cousin even distantly related to her husband with grant of land for kind attention in public or private to man chosen. to be related by to ... (often with sexual intercourse). : to have, to take for , to have, ... relation with. |
|
| | Lutjanus monostiomus (lutjanidae). snapper. |
|
| | tospout, tospurt, tosquirt, to spout, to spout out, spurt out, squirt out, tospurt. : to make ..., toeject, tothrow out with force. : tohurl words, to set about telling someone off, toanswer sharply. |
|
| | . sea wormm resembling but fatter and shorter, used as bait. |
|
| | toadopt or treat a woman as one's mother, to make amother of. |
| | : to take as ... toadopt as mother. |
|
| | old as , old as the hills. |
|
| | . heavyblock of wood or stone on which leaves for weaving mats are beaten to make them supple. |
|
| | havinghardroughskin.
.: theoutside of ..., theexterior, thewrong side,reverse side,back of, envelope. :envelope of letter. :outsiders, people outside,strangers,aliens. : outside, on the exterior, behind, at the back of ... : to go to thetoilet, to go outside. |
|
| | a person who uses other people's things in order to spare his own, a persondetested. |
|
| | Lutianus semicinctus. barredsnapper (a brightly colored snapper with seven dark purple-brown bars on its back and a dark spot by its tail) (hh). |
|
| | afish which runs aground. |
|
| | (1) a species offish found hanging to rocks. (2)piles (disease).
.: hanging,hung,hanging up. to be insuspense, slow to decide,undecided, to leave undecided, longdrawn out. : to hang, to hang up, toweigh in balance, ... scales. : weighing instrument, weighing machine,scales. . to be as if hanging,perched on something, balancing,precariousequilibrium. of: : a kind of perch,toilet seat. |
|
| | Lutianus semicinctus (ll). snapper (sm). |
|
| | toseing by the hands and arms as on thebranch of a tree. asport of swinging by holding onto a branch. |
|
| | to engage in exposingdryingfish to afire thesecond time. the process of drying by fire a second time. |
|
| | to expose drying fish to a fire a second time. |
|
| | : drenched,dripping with water, drippingwet,soaked to dripping state. : tosoil, to wet, to drench.
. ()worn out,threadbare,shabby, inrags,tatters. : impregnated with dirt. : to make become ..., to wear out, reduce to tatters, to soil with dirt.
.:loquacious,talkative,fluent; : a goodspeaker,eloquent,interesting. : too talkative. : good speaker, interestingraconteur, goodstory teller. |
|
| | . to put back in oven, tore heat in order to preserve. |
|
| | togrill over open fire or on burning coals. |
|
| | (1) : moving<move> while suspended, floating in wind, balanced in mid air. tooscillate, toflap, toswing, towave. (2) :vagrancy. fickle, vagrant, roving<rove>,wandering here and there. : wandering mind,distracted, distractions, fickleness. : Betio floats far out from the end of the mainland. : to wave (flag) handkerchief, arms. : to carry food on plates toserve guests in public banquet. : to let mind, thoughtswander. |
|
| | : (to convey anger, scorn, disappointment, refusal ...), be blowed! no go! never! bother! etc. |
|
| | frequentative of . a wandering or roaming about. |
|
| | : tospread out like soft paste, dough. |
|
| | (1) a kind ofdance (dancers sit facing, with a short stick in each hand). (2)finery,ornaments, rig-out. :stick used in dance. |
|
| | togo from island to island, totravel over successively. . |
|
| | tocut down dry palm leaves, toprune young trees. |
|
| | . a man of extraordinarystrength, rather than courage, capable of killing dolphins and whales. |
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| | to engage inhewing a stick to a smaller size. |
|
| | to try toescape by breaking the hold of another. |
|
| | toescape a person by breaking his hold. |
|
| | : tostruggle while flapping wings, tail (fish). |
|
| | : tostraighten by cutting off lumps, by suppressing curves, to cut straight. |
|
| | of: tocorrect the faults, vices, imperfections, tofine, to correct what is vicious. |
|
| | : tobeat with mallet to detachfibre from other constituents. |
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| | tostun or kill with the tail as a large fish a smaller one. |
|
| | frequentative of. frequentative of. |
|
| | stiff-jointedd at theknees. a stiffening in the kneejoints, a person with stiff knee joints. |
|
| | v.t. : totake away, toefface whatever might frighten away game around asnare, what might make a bird suspicious. |
|
| | : toefface prints, marks, foot- prints. |
|
| | v.t. : toseek the meaning of ... . |
|
| | tohit, tobeat, tokill, toimmolate, tomassacre, toassassinate. toreprimand, toscold, tolecture, to give a beating to, tocane, tobelt. :extinguish the fire. |
|
| | tofall upon as a tree upon a house. |
|
| | : toclose what is open or gaping (mat, mosquito net, lavalava, fly opening). |
|
| | Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos. mallard (aa).
.Spatula clypeatashoveller (aa). |
|
| | : alook of approval, observation, vanity, complacency, looking at for a length of time. |
|
| | : torub with oil, tomassage gently. : toflatter, tocaress, tocajole, tocoax. .
.: toexamine the whole, togauge by looking, tolook, to examine, toadmire the form, proportions, general effect, physical features. |
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| | (). idem. tolook calmly at. |
|
| | :round, as ball. : to make round. |
|
| | v.t. : tolook, orgaze on withnausea,disgust,repugnance. : you are being gazed on with disgust, you are exposing yourself to be seen in a disgusting attitude. |
|
| | . ancient littlebasket with lid,box ortin with lid (general). : tincontainer with screw-top lid or air-tight lid. |
|
| | therebeating of leaves for weaving with mallet when they have absorbed humidity (). |
|
| | . pronouncing like , thus .
.soft,watery (paste, dough, soup). ...: to soften, to add more liquid to ... |
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| | ka.to unskillfullysettle a little in theruoia. m - b. k - ng. |
|
| | : painful sneezing, tosneeze with ... |
|
| | : to act, to move with bodybent, todrag oneself along on the ground insitting position. : to drag ..., tocrawl,lean on. |
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| | used in poetic language for : the,a<an>, before . : the canoe. : the walking stick.
.see,,... : a small quantity,small,little. : a small mouse : it makes afeeble cry; : small,squeaky voice. : to make emit aweaksound, to squeak. |
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| | hill,elevation,bump,knoll,hillock.
.oppositesides insquare orcube,evennumber. partner,pair, opposite. : even, in pairs, havecorresponding ..., have partner, have opposite. have you got yourshare? (part). : a square, a cube, having opposite sides square,cubical. : tosupply each with a partner, an opposite, tocomplete a team, to make a pair. : the partner,counterpart,helper,assistant. :acolyte. :every,each.
.:feast,rejoicing in common. feast comes from Samoan (?).
.agiant,colossus,mastodon. gigantic,colossal,enormous,monumental. : of enormous height. ,: : appearance ofgiant, ofherculeanstrength. |
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| | agiant of (ancient country). |
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| | the two lumps at each side ofskull. |
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| | superlative of. : sufficient in number,right number, justenough. : he canmanage alone : they are just the right number ... : to put in ... : he makes up just the right number wanted. |
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| | Ostracion meleagris (y). boxfish (sm). |
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| | to engage innursing orcaring for a littlechild. child nursing, a woman with aninfant of her own.
to nurse, to care for as a little child. |
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| | : to have forfoster child, to serve as foster mother, tocare for as ... |
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| | : tomassage, to massage in circles, all around, torub gently (for prenatal care). :midwife. |
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| | soap. . : torub soap on, to soap ... |
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| | :highrank,noble,chief,lord,rich landowner having servants. : to proclaim as ..., to hold as ..., to consider as ...
.: toget on, toride on, tosail on, to take passage on, to get on something high, todominate. v.t.. : dominating,predominating. : his voice dominates. : its colour predominates, isbrilliant,bright : he looks down on, proudly, ... straight in the face, in provoking manner,domineeringly. : toprevail, todominate, tosucceed, toovercome, tovanquish. v.t.. : to make get up on, ... in, toput on, toplace on. :ballgame.
.: (1) topress against, ... tobottom, tostuff into ..., tocrush against with rammer or pestle, topound. (2)masturbate. . |
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| | a person holding but littleland. |
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| | coming into possession of muchland after awar. |
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| | : he succeeded, got what he wanted. : tosucceed, towin, to get out of difficulties, togain the day, to get the better of. ...: help someone to succeed, win the day. |
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| | : (idem. with prec.) tosucceed by chance, to befavoured by fate. . : to get good chances, to win bychance, to be favoured by the gods. |
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| | to engage in takingland under a false pretense. the appropriation of land under false pretense. |
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| | toseize land on a false pretense or unjust charge. |
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| | success,victory,triumph. : to triumph over, tovanquish, to gain success. : to make victorious, to proclaim victorious, to boast of the victoryof ..., to make triumph. |
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| | (1)end,term,limit,extremity,stop, cessation,finale. :reverberating (sound). (2)chisel. . : to come to an end, tofinish, tocease, to stop, to come to the end. : without end,eternal. :timber at its hardest point. : the biggest sizedaxe. : without end, eternally. : to make cease, to put an end to, to stop, toterminate, to limit, tosuspend, toconclude. |
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| | : having attainedfullsize of its development. |
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| | a somewhatelderlywoman. to enter the list of elderly women,literally to cease to be a woman. |
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| | a somewhatelderlyman. to enter the list of elderly men,literally to cease to be a man. |
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| | to persist in doing aforbidden thing. persistency in doing a forbidden thing. |
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| | :attained sufficientsize, averagequality. (ironical) he deserves what he got! he got what he was asking for! serves him right! |
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| | agoal. to touch the goal. |
| | and suf. of several compound words. verymuch,extremely,altogether. .
. one can't fall any lower than the gound! so here goes! (wrestling terms). : to maketouch, to come to theend, to be at the end, to apply the end to ..., to put at end.
.objective,end,term,result,issue. toattain the object, point aimed at, to attain the end, the result. he attained his end, aim. : to make ... |
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| | a person deciding to wrestle with another against his better judgement. |
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| | a person deciding towrestle with another against his better judgement. |
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| | superlative of: . toannoy by one's childishwhims,capriciousness of spoilt child, ... and by fantastic ideas. |
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| | totalk all at the smae time. conversation in which all are talking at the same time. |
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| | bud of flower. tobud. budding. . |
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| | forkedstick with many branches, planted in ground for hanging up shells of toddy ().coathanger. :idem. used for ... |
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| | too thicklyplanted. a condition in which a place is too thickly planted. |
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| | join, joining,junction,seam,affix. : : prefix. :suffix;adjuster, joiner. : to join, toreadjust, to make a seam. : to join end to end. : to join by adding piece over join.
.: totaste (to see how it tastes), tosip, tosavour. : to sip, to taste, to ... |
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| | v.t. : tojoin two pieces of wood by fixing one end on the other. |
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| | deafened temporarily by aloud report. a temporary deafness from a loud report. |
| | for before .
.:stupor,shock,faint,swoon. to fall into a swoon, to faint, to have fainting fit. : to make ..., tostupefy by shock, toknock out. : which causes ... : your ears will be humming. |
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| | (Tonga-Biti (Fiji] atribe driven out of Samoa about XIII century, scattered from Tonga to Gilbert Islands. |
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| | frequentative of. na adverbialsuffix meaningvery, following . |
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| | mangrove. : covered with ...
.a preparation of and molasses. |
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| | a species ofmangrove with smooth round trunks. |
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| | to sip through a tube or pipe. |
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| | to be on thewatch for athief. a watching for thieves. |
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| | the setting up of the world, name of one of the first men to be created (myth). |
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| | : one who is well provided for,comfortable,well off, well established (pers.), well installed,stable, well made, nicely placed. : badly made, not much use,unsatisfactory. : toprovide for, to make comfortable ... : the wisdom of God disposing all things. |
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| | dirty withfilth lying around. : to put, or leave dirt everywhere. |
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| | aforked piece of wood joining floater to rest of outrigger.
.(1) : afeeblecry of very weak person. (2) acoconut just beginning to have water inside.
.meaning smallnoise,squeak. .
.: anythingsoft,slimy (flesh of young coconut, flesh of mollusc), soft flesh,decomposing ... soft,tender, decomposed,rotten. : crawling with worms. :smelling bad,putrid ... soft,effeminate, with no consistency,flabby, a worthless kind of man. , etc.: to make soft, tender, rotten, to cover with dirt. : to soften, to decompose, to putrefy. |
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| | frequentative of.
a soft preparation of . |
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| | frequent bowel discharge,diarrhoea. : which gives ... |
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| | Ostracion cubicus (ll). boxfish (sm).
.Ostracion lentiginosum (ll). boxfish (sm). |
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| | v.t. :mat weaving<weave>, procedure at beginning of weaving. |
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| | resisting strongly topushing,hauling, difficult to haul in (certain fish), to pull up, to pull off (fruit). . : toforce, to make resist strongly. |
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| | to engage inbraiding a . the work of braiding a or coarsemat. |
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| | a large packingneedle,awl,skewer,stem () used asbodkin. (pronounce too). : a load offish threaded on to . : tosew, tothread on to ...
.: toooze, ooze out. gentleflow. . : to make the words ooze out, toinspire words to ... : to make ooze,leak out, flow gently, intermittently, very much.
.stakes. todeposit stakes. :put down your stakes. . |
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| | (, S.) in compound words fordimension,proportion,quantity of such ... :good,adequate dimensions, etc. : of verybig ... : ofbeautiful proportions. :nearly,almost ... ,,.
.:flame flower treee. Delonyx regia.
.: deviation, rebound. todeviate, torebound. : to make deviate, rebound, toturn aside, toward off a blow, a shock.
.law,precept,rule,commandment,ordinance,prescription. : commandments of God. : governmentofficials,magistrates, etc. : governmentaffairs. : to give anorder, toprescribe, toadvise. . : theimperative. :counsel, advice,information,notification,warning,caution. todenounce, toreport, totell. : don't tell! don't say anything about it! :Gospelcounsels.
.fine,penalty. tolose one'sstake money, to be fined, penalized. : toput down stakes. : topay one's fine. |
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| | pandanus pulp dried in layers on leaves. : to make into ... |
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| | not yet, a verbal adverb, an adverbial verb. |
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| | tograte, toscrape on grater (cooked pandanus). :grater for ... :idem. meaning theblade of ... : a special kind of . |
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| | verylarge dimensions, large. (S.). |
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| | adish made from taro and coconut. |
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| | tocaulk canoe with pandanus leaves. |
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| | : toskim rapidly, tograze in skimming, to graze in passing. : ... to make ... |
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| | . a term used ingame of. sup. ,. |
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| | : tohinder, toimpede, tostop, toembarrass, to putobstacle in way, to beopposed, tothwart. :ward off a blow. : toprotect from ... : a hindrance, an obstacle, opposition, impediment,barrier,handicap,eviction.
.: tolower, letdown, todescend. : tolet down, to bring down (sail, flag), to leave in place, to put down, toabandon, toleave behind. |
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| | a person or thing very muchdesired. |
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| | Nautica (gastropod). snail. |
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| | asponge to wipe up urine (of baby). |
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| | . a violentwind dying down to fair and steady. |
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| | (1)result,issue. to result in, toend in. : itfalls on him. : (when speaking of responsibility, of an accusation<responsible,guilty ?>). :converge to, tofix to, to force against, toapply on to, against, with force. : you have thrown him flat on the ground. (2) tourge, toforce, tooblige someone to ... : he forced his daughter to marry ... (3) to make the blame fall on, ... theresponsibility fall on ..., to get one'sknife into, ... toaccuse ... : they are all against me. for 2nd and 3rd meaning. |
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| | oozing withfat, very or toogreasy but appetizing. . : to make ... |
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| | scuttlehole, evacuation hole,plug to stop this hole,stopper ... : stopper. : pull out the plug, the stopper. : plug or stop the scuttle hole.
.. : toooze (as around plug). .
.weakness,fainting,swoon, fainting from weariness, weakness. : fainting fromshock,emotion. : fainting at sight of blood. : causing, to cause ... |
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| | : tostop short, straight on. : to stop there, toend there.
.a grassskirt, browned in oven. . |
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| | tovisit in order to know about. |
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| | forked stick, propping canoe mast on outrigger side. : to put aprop to ..., tosupport with prop.
.genuflection. togenuflect. ... freq. : tolimp with stiff leg.
.: a way ofcrawling, leavingtrail. : to make ..., to leave ...
.toskid with foot, toslide along ..., tree, trunk, rock. . |
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| | moving, dragging, sliding withdifficulty, ... slowly through faulty construction (canoe), through physical deformity (pers.), towalk laboriously, todrag oneself along. how slow! how it drags on and on!slow andcrooked! : to make, to do ..., to treat as ... |
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| | toowet,watery, tooliquid, too impregnated with water (ex. rice, dough, etc.). |
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| | to furnish amast with a . |
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| | . an ancientbasket with lid, smalltin orbox with lid closing tightly. |
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| | to accidentally subject some part of thebody to beingstruck upon in afall. |
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| | : tohit against, topress against as in washing clothes on a board. |
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| | frequentative ofhitting again and again. |
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| | (sup.) oozinggrease, ...oil, too greasy, too oily. : to makeooze with ..., to make become ... |
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| | . tocook fish (etc.) on shore or in forest before returning home.
.to certain words, indicating sup. <very>. : bushy, close together.
. (plur. )taro with many shoots ().
. toooze. sponge ragg. : tosponge up, to dry with sponge, to use a ... |
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