| | to nouns indicating poss. adj. 1st person. : my mother; :my hand, my arm.
.to most words beginning with . meaningup,upwards,lifting up, rising<rise> up. ,,,,,,,,,.
.onomatopoeia of persistingnoise. ,,.
.ahummingnoise,buzzing, ... ofcrowd, ofwind. toroar, torumble, to hum, to buzz in swarms. abounding,crawling, pollinating<pollinate>. : the mosquitoes are swarming and buzzing.
.:eel basket, eelpot. : tofish for ... : tofix the eel basket, to put it down to sea bottom. : tomake eel basket. : toput down ... : topull up ... , etc.: to fish forcrabs, ,sea mantis, etc., by alluring<allure> them, enticing<entice> them ().
.perforation. toperforate, topierce. : ancientgimlet of pointed shell. :bracedrill. : to pierce, to perforate withbrace bit.
.: a skindisease (which makes holes). |
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| | two, in compound words: .
.two, when counting inpairs, by two's.
.rad. of in compound words to have ononeself, tocarry on oneself. : to carry arms ...
.rad. of : toswim. : to swim down, ... up, away. : a manner offishing with net in deep water. : to make swim. v.t.: to swim to, ... towards.
.measure,manner. : me also, you also. : in thesameway, and so on. : the water was up tohere (show) on me in the sea. : there'snobodylike you, nobody your size.
.towaituntil, havepatience till,insist until,remain until ... : we will wait till we get it. : he kept at ittill death. : until. : even until death ... : in a state of waiting, of patiently waiting, until ... . : have patience while waiting for the address. : wait until the ... : wait till it is time to go to bed. : be patient! you will get satisfaction! (ironical) let it come! what odds!
. ...:fruit,product,result,gain,profit. : fruit of coconut tree; te ben: coconut. : the first fruit. : without profit, ...value. : to give fruit, profits, results. : togather, ... pull fruit. : to make ..., to let produce fruit, ... profit. |
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| | youngfish just spawned around rocks. |
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| | of . , etc.: to take, ... putone by one, one after another. |
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| | to take a deepbreath before diving, totake in supply of air, energy. |
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| | ambidextrous. : being able to use either left or right hand. |
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| | lyingcrosswise as tying-sticks on rafters , or as a ship in a channel. |
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| | slightlycurved towards the end (coconut, etc.). . |
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| | twenty in counting things in general. . |
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| | two in counting hardware, furniture, chests, barrels, timber, coconut-leaf stems, fingers, teeth, large fish, sharks and . |
| | two (large fish, tools, etc.). |
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| | twenty (pieces of , fish, etc.). |
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| | axe proper, also a small axe, but not a hatchet. |
| | a largeaxe with long handle (needing two () hands to manipulate). |
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| | bristle. to bristle up. hairy,hirsute, bristling,dishevelled. : to make, ... to bristle up, to make bristle or hair stand up (feather, spikes, etc.).
.entanglements,embarrassments, worries<worry>. to have ..., to bear or have many worries, beentangled in many matters. : to give ... |
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| | name ofsoothsayer in the expedition of the people ofBeru in the conquest of the northern islands. was the principal chief: . |
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| | measuree>ing spaces evenly with cord or stick. |
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| | measure as spaces with stick or cord. |
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| | to try to befirst. tendency, emulation forbetter, for first place,ambition. ambitious (without pride). |
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| | , wife of , daughter of and (romantictale). |
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| | blighted or poorly developedcoconut. having small or blighted coconuts. |
| | an Abaiang word for a species of redfish, possibly arock cod (ll). |
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| | to stay out in therain, tobathe, play, work ... |
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| | of or inwhat state or condition (interrog) que).
embarrassed ordeterred by the presence of company. embarrassment in or a deterring from through the presence of another. |
| | faultybehaviour,badconduct. gawky, badly adapted,insecure,uncertain,slow,awkward,embarrassed. : to make ..., tofetter, to embarrass, to make gowrong, ... act wrongly. |
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| | idiom inter. preceded by (for condition, demeanour). howare you? how is your father? how is the war going? whatis happening?be how?>. |
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| | kind of condit. interrog ...,howwould itbe if ... what wouldhappen if I ate it? and if I ate it? |
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| | smallness, puniness, small dimensions, small quantity. small,puny, not tall, not big. ...: to make smaller, todiminish, toreduce, tolessen, toshorten, tocurtail, toabridge. |
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| | exclamation ofconfidence in one's championship. gift orpresent brought as to a chief. taking a present to a chief. |
| | to have, or bringpresents when paying one's respects.
.(many meanings) tourge on. go on! to a neglectful friend; so you have come at last! it is a long time since I saw you last! |
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| | equivalent to " the land cannot befamine stricken ". |
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| | to havenews to tell, to bring news. |
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| | twoends, twopieces. to carry between two, one at each end. : to hold, take, or carry (one at each end). |
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| | (1) to have, give, or carryjuice,liquid. (2) to carry one's share oftoddy to the co-operative for making molasses, to give one's contribution to ... (3) to make or leave awake,wash,track in water. |
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| | swelling. toswell, get bigger, to swell after rubbing. : his foot is swollen. |
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| | : tocontent, tosatisfy, tofollow one's instincts, desires. : ... toplease, to satisfy, to content.
.freq. of . .
.swimming. toswim. : to swim like a rat. : to make swim. |
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| | :idem.model man, ... woman,examples to be aimed at as regards physical form and proportion. |
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| | (1)breast,thorax,poitrel,span ofkite. (2)shell worn on the chest. ,,,. (3) a system ofbinding, . (4)figures in game ofcat's cradles. () , etc. : wide span, large thorax. : black, red, whitish colour ... (birds). . (5) tostrut, to stick out chest, to take advantageous pauses. show yourself,exhibit yourself! : totie, to make (special figure). v.t. |
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| | brace (carpenter's tool). :steer straight into the wind. . |
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| | a youngfrigate bird. a person tooproud and toolazy to work (as frigate bird which lives at the expense of other sea birds). |
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| | family Labridae (ll). wrasse (sm). |
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| | brace (carpenter's tool). : tobore a hole with ... |
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| | akite which is too soft, too flexible. . |
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| | Nudibranchs (gastropod). snail. |
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| | in playingpoker,twopairs of cards, to have two pairs of same cards. |
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| | tooforward,rude in approach. rudeness, too great forwardness. |
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| | king,soverign. :queen. : king by right ofconquest. : theMagi. :royal. : he is king, hereigns. : thetaproot,main root. : my, thy,kingdom, reign. : royal family, royal blood. : the reigning family. : of royalorigin,prince. : king for a day (one who eats all his taro, goes through all his riches in a short time). : to make, to proclaim king. : to act the king, to play the great personage, to bepretentious. . |
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| | alert,brisk, wideawake,smart,quick,animated,excited,petulant. : towake up, to make alert, tosmarten, to excite, to makelively, animated. |
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| | myth.tree planted at Buariki (Tarawa) by from . She married . was their daughter. |
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| | (hair standing up)emotion,shudder, shuddering with emotion, ...fear, verytouched,moved. : to give ..., to cause shudders,hair raising, gives thecreeps. ,,.
.. old,blighted,shrunken,shrivelled up (persons, plants). |
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| | exhausted,fleeced,stripped bare, nothing left. : to leave no remains, not askerrick, to laybare, tofinish completely, to exhaust totally. .
.search,research,quest; : tolook for, toseek after. : to look everywhere. : to look for food, sustenance. : to look for like gust of wind. :whirlwind,gustyblasts ofwind. : to look for, torummage, toransack. : to collect rations. : to seek while running, hastily. : to look in the wrong place, to rummage in ... : to seek invain, ... where there in nothing at all. : seek a quarrel. : theeffort of searching. : to make look for ... , etc. |
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| | to work at atask, alone or in teams after share of work has been alloted. : personal task. |
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| | tospread like wild fire (fire, disease). |
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| | . : thewind isblowing. : to take inair, to get an airing. v.t.
.: anopening,sluice, openspace. togape, to beajar, to be open. gaping, partly open. permitted,allowed,free,revealed,disclosed. : to open, touncover, to disclo toinaugurate, to permit.
.:finger nails,toe ...,claws. |
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| | : toblow the fire, tofan the flame. |
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| | tree.
abounding in trees. |
| | atree (useful for timber). |
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| | Terminalia samoensis Rech. (z). |
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| | (1) tognaw ornibble at coconut kernel in shell. (2) a manner offishing, by spreading chewed coconut on surface of water. in order to see clearly. |
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| | ashamed orflustered by drawing false conclusions or by being detected in false representations. sense ofshame connected with the effects of misrepresentation. |
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| | any kind ofdwelling, anything with roof,house, dwelling,hut,shelter,cabin,roof,tent,umbrella. : average-sized house. :vaulted,convex,dome shaped,arched.
.: in aninhabited place, at place dwelt in, in thevillage, athome. :housewife (married woman). : to have thehabit,vice of lying, laziness. ,, etc. : to makeroof shaped, tolift up one side with crow-bar, to makedome shaped, ...arched,tunnelled. v.: todwell in, under, to have as ..., to take as one's dwelling,shelter.
a system ofnavigation for travelling atnight. |
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| | idem. for findingstars using same terms as names of pieces used in buildinghouse. |
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| | haste,hurry,promptitude,diligence. to hurry, hasten, go quickly, to be prompt, diligent,expeditious,quick. : to make hurry, hasten. |
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| | tocook in ground oven. : to cook in ... |
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| | . to put tocook in ground oven on hot stones. |
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| | meaningstruggle,force,violence,ardour (root foundation).
.anger,harshness,severity,fight,brawl,dispute,conflict,opposition. excitation,ardour,temper,passion,fury,bravery,courage, theprincipal, theessential, themain point,centre, full force. : the dance at itshardest. : the main point of the argument, speech, etc. : to get angry, to fly into temper, to becross, ... excited, to be carried off byrage, to struggle, to fight, to be angry, to be cross, ... violent, ... brutal, ... harsh, ... exasperated, severe, furious, wild, brave, daring. :irascible,choleric. : passion of anger, always ... : to make ..., toexcite to ..., toirritate, tovex, toexasperate, to make fight, to make bold, ... daring, to oppose end to end. : I often get furious ...: put your stick in opposition to ... : irritation, vexation, excitation. : the fish bites at the bait.
.: the name of astar. |
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| | toattack, to harness oneself to a useless task which has no ending. |
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| | togo in direction of Matang, i.e., never to arrive at land, no end of navigating, todawdle, toloiter. |
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| | : last days ofmoon's cycle, 26th and 27th days of moon. |
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| | stripping off oldleafves ofcoconut trees. work of stripping off old leaves of coconut trees. |
| | : tocut off shoots, palm leaves, ... hair of future warrior leaving only a small tuft on crown of head (initiation ceremony), todenude of what has grown again. |
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| | animation,ardour,life, go,activity,enthusiasm. to have ..., be full of ... make moreanimated ...: toexcite, tostimulate, toencourage, toliven up ... : stimulation, etc. ... |
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| | mock-fight by children usingcoconut leaf midribs asspears. play at mock-fight as children using coconut leaf midribs as spears. |
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| | toaim at the same point from a fixed base. |
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| | todiverge from a central point orconverge to ... : the flashes of lightning come from the same spot. : they are allunanimously for (or against) you. |
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| | tobump, toknock into, ... against everything. |
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| | a poisonousfish, like small lizard. |
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| | : toturn, totwist, to give a twist to ... (ex. door knob, fruit to detach it). to turn, ...change a situation or state of affairs. |
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| | badlyjoined, not corresponding, turned onwrong side, not matching. ,,. : the fish turns away from the bait, doesn't bite. misunderstanding,discord,disagreement,vexed,cross,displeased, ill-disposed. : to join badly, tofix ..., to give wrong end. displease, vex,ill dispose.
.v.t.. |
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| | goingagainst, fighting against,rebelling against. torefuse, to get one's back up, to go against the current, to bestubborn. : to go against, tofight opposition, topersist, be stubborn against. : to make ..., opposed to, to excite against, to persist in doing the opposite. |
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| | of , :twins of different sex. |
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| | . toset going, tolead, todirect, toconduct a gang, team, band, an enterprise, to be at thehead, ... be thedirector,chief,leader. : to direct a gang, an undertaking. ,,. |
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| | offended, put out. taking of offense. |
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| | (1) : lagoonshark. (2) alance with double edge of shark's teeth.
.of. passionate,fiery, ofcholeric temperament,violent,irascible,pugnacious,quarrelsome,disputatious. harsh,cross,peevish,moody,disagreeable. :blustering,swaggering,braggart. : topretend to be angry. : choleric, irascible. : irritating, vexing,offensive. : toirritate, to vex, to offend, to hurt. |
| | uniuni. Negaprion acutidens (charcharhinidae). requiemshark. |
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| | planting. planting, to plant. |
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| | two used in counting leaves. |
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| | two used in counting persons or animals. |
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| | carry. something carried small or great. |
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| | carrying. carrying of a burden. |
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| | two, in counting things in generalfour in counting bytwos two twos. carrying achild. carrying of a child. |
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| | rock andsing a child to sleep in one's arms while walking or sitting. |
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| | :lobster. ,. ,.
. ...:ardour,flame,passion. : ardent, burningstrongly, ... feebly<feeble>, ...hardly; to bealight,burning, in flames, passionate, furious. : flaming, blazing, glowing. : burning under ashes, covered fire. : catching fire easily,inflammable, highly ...,irascible. : tolight, to light the fire. : to makeblaze, ...flame up. :ignition, lighting of fire,kindling brought from fire,firerites in severalmagical ceremonies<ceremony>. : thehead, theleader, the strong man, first-ratehero.
.of compound words:,, ...
.tosprinkle, to throw water on by hand. ,.
.todestroy, tobreak, toshatter, tosmash (S.). :
.afish (orlobster ?). |
| | Panulirua pencillatus Oliver (i). |
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| | (1) (ura-n-anti) alight appearing and disappearing. (2)red colour of tainted fruit. |
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| | blazing fiercely, brightred colour spreading all over. : to makeblaze, ...glow. |
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| | same as according to some authorities but not approved byKaure. |
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| | youngfish,fry. : to fish for ...idem. : to make ... |
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| | togo up, to go up in the air. :blown up, carried<carry> up by wind. : tothrow up in the air, tolift up ... : to throw, tofling upwards (ex. ball). |
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| | repeatedtransportation. carrying stones, boards, etc, to a certain place for collecting them there. |
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| | transport articles to a place for collecting them there. |
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| | red, burned red from exposure at sea (fishing, travelling, poisoning). red with anger. |
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| | red according to some authorities, but not approved byKaure. |
| | red of 'shell), colour of skin in certain diseases. |
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| | : toopen by separation, as bud bursting open, opening out,flowering, expansion, to open, toexpand. opened, expanded, in flower. : its eyes are opened. : its flowers are inbloom, opened out. ... : to make, ... open by putting apart (feet, eyelids). : he opened my eyes. : theblossoming. |
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| | theopening ofspathe to extract juice. : to open the ... : this operation. |
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| | . toopenwide. : he opened wide his mouth, his eyes. |
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| | atree bearing odoriferous flowers very common in Gilbert Islands. species: : : the where souls hang lamenting for three days before going on to the land of the dead with . Guettarda speciosa, fragaea, ochriosa paviflores. : abundance of .
.a kind ofreligiousablution, sprinkling by taking up water in hands and pouring on head. to do this, to ...,sprinkle. |
| | Guettarda speciosa L. (z). |
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| | urim [heb divination object] . |
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| | Bathygobius fuscus (y). goby (sm).
.Dinematichthys iluocoeteoides (y).
.fish ofGobies orBlennies spp. (ll).
.Parapercis cephalopunctatus (y). smelt (sm).
.Synodus variegatus (y). lizardfish (sm). |
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| | haste. to hasten, to goquickly. : the day is approaching quickly. : to make hasten. : ashortcut,path through the forest, in the bush, parallel with road, where fewer people are met to retard one's progress. |
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| | tofinish completely, to leave nothing over, tocomplete a task properly. |
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| | : todestroy, tosack, toplunder, tobreak, tosmash. violate,transgress (laws, contracts, vows). :fragile, breakable, easily broken.
.afish,king fish.
.name of astar. |
| | family Carangidae. very largekingfish (ll). |
| | Caranx melampyges (carangidae). largejack. |
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| | same asstrong according to some authorities, but not approved byKaure. |
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| | Caranx lugubris. large sizedkingfish (ll). |
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| | destruction of things, destruction,sack,plunder,pillage, ruin. todestroy, todevastate, to laywaste, tobreak, tosmash, toupset, todismantle. : the destroyer, plunderer, pillager ... |
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| | : complete destruction, devastation<devastate>. |
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| | frequentative of remember. |
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| | destroying. destruction, devastation. |
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| | . akea utaina, akea kitona: he has absolutelynothing, not even a crumb, he is a miserablepauper. |
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| | idem. of which one cannot imagine theuse he will make. : to find ..., to judge ... :idem. see preceding word. |
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| | Fimbristylis cymosa R. Brown (z). |
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| | Eragrostis amabilis (z).
.Eragrostis whitneyi Fosb. (z). |
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| | (1) (Baringloria asiatica) perhaps . (2) abush.
.:louse, lice. : animal lice. :bugs. :crab louse. :crawling with ... : tocatch lice, fleas. : tocrunch lice.
.: rising, awakening. toget up, toswell, tolift up, towake up, toraise up, tostand on end, to beawake, to beup, lifted up, swollen. : its hairbristles, ... is standing up. : the bread isrisen. : to waken, tocall, to make get up, to make stand up, ... rise up. toexcite, tostir up, torouse. : to go off early in the morning to work, etc. :magical ceremonies<ceremony> on the ocean side facing the rising sun. |
| | Barringtonia asiatica (z). |
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| | , etc.: tostand up,bristle up indisorder, toerect, to holdupright, toraise, to stand on end, etc. (hair, bristles, feathers, skin, barbel, etc.), through fear, joy, excitement, enthusiasm, etc. |
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| | n.v..
: tobristle up (spikes, wattle, barbel), bristle up like a hedge-hog. . : to make ... |
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| | : ayoungcoconut plant, having no trunk.
.marrow or soft content of trunks, stems of certain plants. centre,origin,originalcause,foundation,root,source, marrow,substance. : at the origin, source. : to be theauthor, to be at the root of ..., the principaldefaulter, the person reallyresponsible. : to make responsible ..., principal defaulter of ..., the origin of a misdeed, toaccuse of being ..., toinculpate, toincriminate. : tostrengthen the principal part. ,. |
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| | idem. ... apain which is hard to locate. |
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| | unable to keep still, always moving<move>. : |
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| | family (by blood or species),relatives,offspring,progeny,race,dynasty,society,congregation,species. :members of family. : theholy family: large ... :misunderstanding in ...,division in ...,schism. : todivide a family, toseparate into species. : to make ... |
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| | . to have, or take as one's family, tobelong to such ... |
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