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1. nvi. To cling, stick, adhere, touch, join, adjoin, cleave to, associate with, be with, be close or adjacent; clinging, sticking; close relationship, relative; thing belonging to.

• Examples:
  • E pili kāua, let's be together.
  • Hehi i ka pili, wehe i ka pili, to abolish relationship.
  • Maka pili, squinting eyes that seem almost closed.
  • Pili hukihuki, clashes between close associates, a bickering relationship.
  • He pili wehena ʻole, an unseverable relationship.
  • Pili i ka hewa, to be found guilty.
  • Pili ke kua me ke alo, the back and front meet [said of a thin person].
  • Ke kukui ka pili ia o ka uhu, the kukui is the thing pertaining to the parrot fish; the kukui is related to the parrot fish (see kukui #1).
• Related:
  • Pili ʻana, connection.
  • Pili maikaʻi, fitting nicely, compact.
  • Hoa pili, intimate friend.
  • Koʻu pili (Laie 483), my partner [in a kilu game].
  • Kolone pili, column at close intervals [military].
  • hoʻopili Caus/sim.; To bring together, stick; to attach oneself to a person; united, as friends; to mimic, imitate; to claim a relationship; to put together, as parts of a puzzle. Cf. hoʻopili wale.
    • Ke ʻano a me ka hoʻopili ʻia ʻana o nā helu, the nature and application of numbers.
    • Ua hoʻopili ʻia ma ka perita maʻemaʻe o ka male, united in the pure bonds of matrimony.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻauipili, pili wale.
  • PPN pili .

2. n. A grass (Heteropogon contortus 🌐) known in many warm regions, formerly used for thatching houses in Hawaiʻi; sometimes added to the hula altar to Laka, for knowledge to pili or cling; thatch (preceded by ke).

• Examples:
  • Hale pili, house thatched with pili grass.
  • Lei kōkō ʻula i ke pili (song), red network lei [rainbow] on the pili grass.
  • Hū wale aku nō ka waiwai i ke pili (Kep. 119), the wealth overflowed on the pili grass [of great quantities].
• References:
  • Neal 80.

3. vt. To refer, concern, relate, pertain, apply.

• Related:
  • hoʻopili Caus/sim.

4. n. Shingles, so called because they replace the pili grass of the roofs of the old houses (preceded by ke).

5. nvt. A wager, bet, stake; to bet, wager.

• References:
  • See piliwaiwai.

6. n. Border, edge of time units, especially of late night.

• Examples:
  • Pili aumoe, the late night.
  • Ka pili o ka wanaʻao (Laie 469), at the approach of dawn.
  • Ka pili o ke ahiahi (Laie 457), at the end of the evening, nightfall.

7. n. Uncolored sheets in a kuʻina, sleeping tapa.

8. n. Lining of a quilt under the layer of cotton or wool.

9. n. First stage of poi-pounding, with taro beginning to stick.

10. n. A narrow or precarious pass.

• Rare

11. Same as ʻume, the game, so called because the wand touched (pili) the players.

• Rare
• References:
  • Malo 215.

12. Same as ʻōpili, numb.

• References:
  • UL 61.

1. nvt. To close, shut, block (For. 5:460–1), dam (For. 5:509), dike, substitute, replace, represent, fill a breach or vacancy; closure, stopper, valve, cork, plug, lid, cover, gate, blockade, door, agreement (GP 14), substitute, vice- (sometimes preceded by ke).

• Related:
  • Pani ʻino, to slam or close forcefully.
  • hoʻopani Caus/sim.; To cause a closing, pretend to close.
• References:
  • Cf. pani hakahaka.
  • PCP pani .

2. n. Final bit of food closing a period of treatment by a medical practitioner, commonly but not always sea food; final gift in a hoʻokupu ceremony.

• Related:
  • Cf. aeāea, ʻakilolo #1.

3. n. Odd-shaped pandanus key that fits, like a keystone at the bottom of a pandanus cluster; when this is knocked out, the others fall easily.

4. n. The bottom of a coconut when cracked off by blows around the base of the nut; it fits like a lid (pani).

5. n. Disease with severe pain at the solar plexus and choking.

6. n. Pan.

• Rare
• Source:
  • English.

1. n. General name for small mollusks, including Theodoxus neglectus. (KL. line 32.) Lei pipipi, lei of pipipi shell, a new type of lei; formerly kūpeʻe ornaments were called lei pipipi because of a superficial resemblance. (PCP pipipi.)

2. vs. Small and close together, as stars or pipipi shells; small, squinting, as eyes. hoʻo.pipipi To put close together; to squint. Kanu hoʻopipipi i nā ʻanoʻano, plant the seeds close together.

3. See hale pipipi.

1. nvs., Glow, as of sunrise or fire, red.

• Examples:
  • Wena ʻula, red glow.
  • Hōʻike ʻo Pele i kona nani, ka ʻula wena i ka maka o ke ao (song), Pele reveals her beauty, the rosy glow in the countenance of the cloud.

2. n., A close relationship, blood relative.

• Examples:
  • Hehoahānau kēnā e loaʻa ai ka wena, that is a cousin in whom there is a close blood tie.

[Ho for hoo, and ii, parsimonious.] See ii and kaii.

1. To save; to be thrifty.

2. To be close; parsimonious; to be close in bargaining.

3. To squeeze or work out of another some little favor.

4. To be hard upon; to oppress: o ka hookohu-kohu ame ka hoii a kanaka no ke Akua.

1. Near, close, adjacent (PE). 2. Near to, close by (AP). 3. Neighboring (HRH).

v. To press; to urge on; to urge on one to labor.

2. To be little or to attend to trifles in dealing.

3. To be stingy; to be close; to urge for the last mite.

1. To press; to make smooth.

2. To belittle or to attend to trifles in dealing.

3. To be stingy; to be close; to urge for the last mite; to lay aside secretly. See komekome.

v. To close or shut the eyes on account of too strong light; ua onini na maka i ka malamalama, ua kahuli ka onohi, ua ano e ka maka.

v. To surround as water does an island.

2. To inclose; to be hemmed in, as one person by multitudes.

3. To surround, i. e., to get round one by deceit; to prevail over; to get the better of.

4. To be surrounded; to be deceived; to be insnared; to be taken.

5. To go around; to encircle; hence,

6. To finish; to complete; to terminate.

7. To close, as an appointed period of time; as the end of the year. 1 Nal. 20:22. To finish the period of gestation. 1 Sam. 4:19.

8. To gain possession of; hee o Kalanikupule ia Kamehameha, a puni Oahu a me Molokai, a me Lanai a me Maui a me Kahoolawe, Kalanikupule fled before Kamehameha, and he came in possession of Oahu and Molokai and Lanai and Maui and Kahoolawe.

9. To covet; to desire greatly. See Note below.

10. To be addicted to; to be influenced by, as pleasure or gain; ua puni na ’lii ame na kanaka i na hana ino loa, the chiefs and people were addicted to very evil practices.

11. Hoo. To give false testimony; to deceive.

12. To surround for protection. Iob. 1:10. NOTE.—Puni is connected with many other words and signifies, influenced, led by, or addicted to, as well as deceived; puni lealea, addicted to pleasure; puni waiwai, greedy of property; puni hula, given to the practice of the hula, &c.

1. nvt., Pavement, level terrace; to pave, lay stones in pavement or terrace; to wall in, as with stones (GP 98).

2. vi., To be close together, as clouds, or as taro neatly packed in a load; to shoot together (see papa #3, Kel. 45).

3. n., A sweet potato.

4. nvi., Prone position on a surfboard; to assume such.

1. v., To pave; to lay a pavement of stones. See kipaepae and kipaipai.

2. v., To balance on the top of the surf; to turn sideways, as on a surf-board in the surf.

3. v., To be close together.

4. v., To protect and support when another condemns.

1. v., To be in a deep sleep; to sleep soundly.

2. To close the eyes in sleep.

3. To be weary; to be fatigued. See newa.

1. n., Any substance reduced in size by compression; a pad: pai ai, compressed food.

2. n., A blow with a flat surface, as the palm of the hand.

3. n., A striking or impressing, as in printing; a stamping.

4. n., A tie in a game or contest.

5. n., Word used at the close of a prayer.

conjunction, And; and then; and when. When it connects verbs, it usually stands by itself; as, holo ka waa, a komo iho, the canoe sailed and sank. When it connects nouns, it is usually joined with me; as, haawi mai oia i ka ai a me ke kapa, he furnished food and clothing. A with me signifies and, and also, besides, together with, &c. When emphatic, it is merely a disjunctive. Lunk. 6:39. NOTE.—In narration, it frequently stands at the beginning of sentences or paragraphs, and merely refers to what has been said, without any very close connection with it. In many cases, it is apparently euphonic, or seems to answer no purpose, except as a preparatory sound to something that may follow; as, akahi no oukou a hele i keia ala, never before have you passed this road. Gram. § 166.

preposition, Of; to; in connection with motion, e hoi oe a ka hale, return to the house, (hiki i) understood. Laieik. 12. Unto; at; belonging. It designates the properties of relation, possession and place; and is often synonymous with o, but more generally distinct, giving another shade of meaning and implying a more close connection. Gram. § 69, 3.

conjunction, And; then; and when. When it connects verbs, it usually stands by itself; as, holo ka waa, a komo iho, the canoe sailed and sank. When it connects nouns, it is usually joined with me; as, haawi mai oia i ka ai a me ke kapa, he furnished food and clothing. A with me signifies and, and also, besides, together with, etc. When emphatic, it is merely a disjunctive. In narration, it frequently stands at the beginning of sentences or paragraphs, and merely refers to what has been said, without any very close connection with it. In many cases it is apparently euphonic or seems to answer no purpose, except as a preparatory sound to something that may follow; as, akahi no oukou a hele i keia ala, before you have passed this road.

s. A dog; ilio hihiu, a wolf; ilio hahai, a greyhound. Sol. 30:31.

2. The cross beam of a house.

3. FIG. A catamite. Hoik. 22:15.

4. A stingy, close man.

1. v., To coincide; to be close together, as shingles.

2. v., To cleave to, as to a friend.

3. v., To wager or bet.

4. v., To take care of or charge of.

5. v., To be related to.

6. v., To agree together, as witnesses.

7. v., To belong to; to accompany; to follow.

1. nvi., Ear; to hear (rare).

• Examples:
  • Lohe pepeiao, hearsay, to have heard only.
  • Pepeiao manana, protruding ears.
  • Pepeiao pili, ears pressing close to the head.
  • Pepeiao pilau, infected ear.
  • E heluhelu ma nā pepeiao o nā kānaka (Puk. 24.7), read in the audience of the people.
• References:
  • Cf. līpepeiao.

2. n., Cotyledon, as of beans.

3. n., Stipule, as of noni, a tree.

4. n., Scallops in lace.

5. n., Lugs or blocks inside a canoe hull to which the ʻiako, booms, and perhaps the mast (For. 5:633) are fastened.

6. n., Comb cleats for canoe thwarts or seats.

7. n., Chinese cake stuffed with meat, named for a resemblance to an ear.

• References:
  • Cf. cup-shaped mea ʻono puaʻa.

8. n., Long nets 30 to 37 m deep, attached at each side of the ʻupena kolo, bag net.

9. n., Valve of the heart.

10. Same as pepeiao akua.

1. nvi., To rise, as smoke, mist; to billow out, as a ship's sail; to spread out, as a shrub with low branches or as a cloud, to whiffle; such rising.

• Examples:
  • Pūnohu ʻula, i ke kai (song), red rising mist on the sea. (The connotation of redness is sometimes present even without ʻula. Cf. ua pūnohu.)
  • Nā ao ʻeleʻele, maluna aʻe o nā ao polohiwa i mau ao uli, a me nā pūnohu huna one, i mau ao ua (Kep. 175), black clouds above the solid black clouds to dark clouds, and small sandlike rising clouds to rain clouds.
• References:
  • Cf. also Lunk. 20.40.

2. n., Rainbow lying close to the earth.

• References:
  • UL 99.

3. n., Slate pencil sea urchin.

• Related:
  • Also: hāʻueʻue.

1. nvi. To say, speak, suppose; saying.

• Examples:
  • ʻĪ ihola ke Akua (Kin. 1.3), God said.
  • He ʻī mai kāu e ō hele mai hoʻi nā keiki, you would think the children would come.
• References:
  • PPN kii .

2. n. Supreme, great, best (frequently a part of names, as Kaʻīimamao (KL. title), the supreme one at a distance; ʻĪlālāʻole, supreme without branches).

• Examples:
  • ʻO kela nō ka ʻī, that is the best.

3. vs. Hard, close, stingy.

• References:
  • Cf. ʻīʻī #1.

4. Interjection of scorn, used idiomatically.

• Examples:
  • No hea ke aʻo ʻana i ka hula? I ka ʻī! Where learn the hula? Much [she] knows about it! Stuff and nonsense!

5. n. The letter “i”.

adj., Stingy; close; niggardly.

v. See PILI and PIPILI, to adhere to. To put together two or more things into one; to cause them to adhere closely.

2. To live together in close friendship, as two intimate friends.

3. To put in opposition; to bring into difficulty.

[Hoo and pili or pipili, to adhere to.]

1. To put together two or more things into one; to cause them to adhere closely.

2. To live together in close friendship, as two intimate friends.

3. To court; make love to.

1. Reduplication of pili #1; any sticky matter, adhesive; pasty, gluey, viscid.

• Examples:
  • He mea ʻai ʻia kahi pilipili maunu kāpae ʻia, the bit of bait set to one side is edible still [one who has been the mate of another can still be a good mate].
• Related:
  • hoʻopilipili Reduplication of hoʻopili; to court, woo, make advances (FS 155); to associate in close friendship; to claim relationship, especially if unwarranted.
    • ʻŌlelo hoʻopilipili, figurative language, simile (cf. hoʻopilipili ʻōlelo, below).
• References:
  • PPN pilipili.

2. Same as pipili 2, an herb.

v. To arrive at; to approach to.

2. To come together; to be united, as two pieces of cloth in a garment.

3. To be united in close friendship, as two friends.

1. To unite; to fasten to.

2. To come together; to be united, as two pieces of cloth in a garment.

3. To be united in close friendship, as two friends.

hamani To close, as in a computer program.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Related:
  • See wehe.

1. Redup. of neʻe. Neʻeneʻe ā pili, to move close by, snuggle. hoʻo.neʻe.neʻe Caus/sim. (PNP nekeneke).

2. n. A native variety of taro. Also moi. (HP 33, Whitney.)

3. n. A variety of sweet potato.

prep. By, for, belonging to (a-form).

• Examples:
  • Na wai ʻoe (FS 117)? Who was your parent? (Literally, by who you?)
  • Aloha ʻolua na Ka-wai, greetings to you both from Ka-wai [close of a letter].
  • He puke na Pua, a book for Pua; a book by Pua [ambiguous].
• References:
  • See no and Gram. 9.11.
  • PCP na(a).

1. v., To close and open the eyelids quickly; to draw the eyelids together, as in conveying a hint or making a sign; to wink.

2. v., To cast admiring, coquettish, or coarsely familiar glances; to ogle.

1. nvs., Wicked, immoral, sinful, unwholesome, unclean, bad, vicious, evil, unprincipled; hate, sin, decomposition (For. 5:713).

• References:
  • See kahi ʻino and ex., ʻoi

2. ʻIno loa, very bad or wicked, horrible, abominable.

• Related:
  • Kā i ka ʻino, curse.
  • hōʻino, hoʻoʻino Caus/sim.; To insult, malign, persecute, abuse, dishonor, defame, speak evil.
    • Hōʻino wale, needlessly defame, damn.
    • Hoʻopau hoʻoʻino ʻia, dishonorably discharged [as from the armed services].
• References:
  • PNP kino .

2. nvi., Spoiled, contaminated, bad-smelling, of poor quality, ugly; spoiled object, pollution.

• Examples:
  • Pau ka ʻino, the foul period is over [of a child after toilet training].

3. vt., To injure, hurt, harm, break.

• Examples:
  • ʻO ka inu wai ʻona, he mea ia e ʻino ai ke kino, the drinking of intoxicants injures the body.
• Related:
  • hoʻoʻino Caus/sim.; To harm, injure, damage.

4. nvs., Storm; stormy.

• Examples:
  • ʻO ka uhiwai nō ka i ʻike i ka ʻino o ka wai, the mists are those that know of storm on the water [those close by know what is going to happen].

5. n., A commoner.

• References:
  • Kep. 141.

6. particle, Very, very much, intensely. (Sometimes pejorative; Gram. 7.5.)

• Examples:
  • Aloha ʻino, too bad, what a shame.
  • Nui ʻino, very, very many or much.
  • Holo ʻino ke kaʻa, the car races terrifically.
  • Makemake ʻino au i kēlā mea, I want that thing very much.

1. nvi., Failure to give a return gift; to receive without giving in return; illiberal, ungrateful, close-fisted. Cf. mamaua.

2. n., Native forest trees, Xylosma hawaiiense 🌐.

• References:
  • See aʻe #6.
  • Neal 592.

3. n., A type of prayer for luakini dedication.

• References:
  • For. 6:23.

1. adj., Large; many.

2. Close; stingy; illiberal; obstinate. See makona. He kanaka maua.

3. Lame; sore; stiff, as with walking.

adj., Close; stingy; illiberal; obstinate. See makona. He kanaka maua.

1. nvs., Flat surface, stratum, plain, reef, layer, level, foundation, story of a building, floor, class, rank, grade, order, table, sheet, plate, shelf (rare), face (of a watch); flat, level; to be a great many.

• Examples:
  • Kui papa, to make overlap on a lei, as feathers.
  • Helu papa, to recite in consecutive order.
  • Neʻe papa, to move in rank.
  • Kūkū papa, to stand in ranks, as an army.
• Related:
  • hoʻopapa Caus/sim.; To place in rank or file; to put in order, to put in layers, overlay, as shingles; to make a shelf; to pack neatly.
• References:
  • Cf. aliʻi papa, noho papa #1, papa aliʻi.
  • PPN papa .

2. nvs., Native-born, especially for several generations (see noho papa #2); offspring of the mating of an individual of piʻo, naha, or nīʻaupiʻo rank, with one of kaukaualiʻi rank; the lowest ranking aristocrat.

3. vs. Set close together, thick together, as of growing plants; in unison, all together.

• Examples:
  • He kāhili papa iki, a feather standard with small feathers.
• References:
  • Cf. holopapa, kāpapa, neʻepapa, papapū.

4. nvs., Board, lumber; wooden.

5. n., A variety of kava. The name may be qualified by the colors ʻeleʻele, kea.

6. n., Middle portion of a fishing net, bag net.

7. (Cap.) n., Wind associated with Honuaʻula, Maui.

• References:
  • For. 5:101.

8. n. Stone used as sinker for lūheʻe, octopus lure.

• References:
  • Malo 19.

9. n. Wafer.

• References:
  • Puk. 29.2.

1. n., A relation; close relationship; he hoahanau kena e loaa ai ka wena.

2. n., Flash of light; first appearance of daylight.

An obstruction; anything used to close a way or passage.

1. v., To feed; to nourish, as the young.

2. v., To support, as those in need.

3. v., To feed, as a flock; to feed; to sustain, as a people.

4. v., To entertain, as strangers; e hookipa i na malihini.

5. v., To act the part of a parent towards an orphan; to foster.

6. v., To skim along the ground, as a bird; to fly close to the surface, as the flying fish.

kikino Parenthesis. Dic. See kahaapo kihikihi. Kahaapo wehe. Open parenthesis. Kahaapo pani. Close parenthesis.

1. adj., Sour; mouldy; musty, as food injured by long standing. SYN. with punahelu.

2. Covetous; close; niggardly.

1. adj., Sour; mouldy; musty. Syn: Punahelu.

2. adj., Covetous; close; niggardly.

3. adj., Cruel; selfish.

4. adj., Hard to lift or carry; weighty; heavy.

1. adj., Stinted; unthrifty.

2. adj., Stiff; tight, as a rope.

3. adj., Close; parsimonious.

adj. Crowded close together; strait; narrow; difficult.

Crowded close together; straight; narrow; difficult.

1. v., To sprinkle, as water. Oihk. 6:27.

2. To throw water with the hand. See pipi, kapii and kapipi.

3. To cause water to flow drop by drop; to flow in very small quantities.

4. Hoopi. To be stingy; to be close; to be hard upon the poor.

1. adj., Green; soggy; incombustible; smoking, as green wood; e mani ai ka umu; e waiho ana aku ka momoki pi e.

2. Parsimonious; stingy; close; hard; unkind; ungenerous. See uahoa.

1. adj., Slow to burn, as green wood.

2. adj., Parsimonious; stingy; close; hard; unkind; ungenerous. Syn: uahoa.

1. v., To sprinkle, as water.

2. v., To throw water with the hand. Syn: pipi, kapii and kapipi.

3. v., To be close; to he stingy; to be hard in a bargain.

v. Pili and paa, fast; tight. To live together in close union or in constant friendship; to be seldom separate from each other.

nvt., Right, privilege, concern, responsibility, title, business, property, estate, portion, jurisdiction, authority, liability, interest, claim, ownership, tenure, affair, province; reason, cause, function, justification; small piece of property, as within an ahupuaʻa; blood relative through whom a relationship to less close relatives is traced, as to in-laws.

• Examples:
  • Make wale nō lākou me ka hewa ʻole, a me ke kuleana ʻole no ka make (Kep. 147), they were killed without having done wrong, and without justification for death.
  • ʻO Hina kō mākou kuleana, ʻaʻole ʻo ke kāne, we are related through Hina, not through the husband.
  • ʻElua loʻi ʻai, ua kuleana ʻia e aʻu, two taro patches claimed as kuleana by me [will].
• Related:
  • Kuleana lako, supplies, equipment.
  • Kuleana pule, necessary prayers, prayer responsibilities.
  • Ke kuleana o ke kanaka, man's rights and privileges, human rights.
  • Kuleana wai, water rights.
  • Ka hoʻolimalima kuleana kūʻai, rental with the right to buy.
  • Kō haʻi kuleana, other persons' affairs or business.
  • Kuleana ala hele e hiki aku ai, right of way of access.
  • Kuleana hapakolu o ka wahine kāne make, dower right of widow to a third of an estate.
  • Kuleana o ke kāne male, estate by courtesy, of a husband's right in the estate of his wife.
  • hoʻokuleana Caus/sim.; To entitle, give right to possess; to give a responsibility.
    • Palapala hoʻokuleana, patent, copyright.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻākuleana.

1. s., A confinedness; want of room.

2. A close, tight room.

3. Severe pain; panting for breath; strangulation; the pangs of death.

4. A siege of a city. Ier. 19:9.

1. adj., Close and hot, as the confined air of a crowded room.

2. Tight, as a bandage or clothes made too small.

1. adj., Close and hot, as the air of a crowded room.

2. adj., Tight, as a bandage or clothes.

[Hoa, companion, and pili, to adhere.]

1. n., Close companion; a friend.

2. n., An attache. (Formerly one who attached himself to a chief and was his constant companion.)

1. Few; scattering; not close; kauhale kawalawala, scattered houses.

2. Unintelligible, referring to speech.

3. Insufficient, inadequate, unsatisfactory: He maona kawalawala; unsatisfactory is the eating.

Rippled surface of the sea, as caused by fish; undulation or vibration of light in the hot sun; to ripple, vibrate, undulate; to close or blink the eyes in bright glare.

• Source:
  • Variant of haʻalili.
• Examples:
  • Hoʻolili ka ʻōpelu, the ʻōpelu ripples [the sea].
• Related:
  • Also: holili.
• References:
  • PPN lili .

1. nvs. Thorn, barb, spine, bur; barbed, thorny, prickly, burry; jabbed, pricked, hurt by a thorn. Lāʻau kukū (1 Sam. 13.6), brambles, thicket. Uwea kukū, barbed wire.

2. Redup. of kū 1, to hit; crowded. Kō pāpālina e kukū nei (song), your cheeks that stand firm. Lihilihi kukū, eyelashes that project. Ua hele wale a kukū kānaka, the people are standing close together. Kukū mai nā hoʻomanaʻo ʻana o ke au i hala aku, crowding memories of the past.

1. n., (Usually pronounced tūtū.) Granny, grandma, grandpa; granduncle, grandaunt; any relative or close friend of grandparent's generation (often said affectionately; apparently a new word as it has not been noted in legends and chants).

2. vi., To shake in jerks, bounce, trot, as on a horse; bumpy.

• Related:
  • Hele kūkū, to go jerkily, by fits and starts.
  • Holo kūkū, to trot.
  • hoʻokūkū Caus/sim.; To cause to shake; to shake, bounce; uncomfortably full, as after overeating

3. nvt., Gourd beat; the gourd is thumped down on a pad three times, and on the third rise, it is slapped; to beat thus.

• References:
  • Cf. ʻami kūku-, kāhela, pā #5.

4. n., Sea gull (RSV), cuckoo (KJV).

• References:
  • Oihk. 11.16.

n.

1. Grandparent, ancestor, relative or close friend of the grandparent's generation, grandaunt, granduncle. hoʻo.kupuna To take a person as a grandparent or grandaunt or granduncle because of affection; an adopted grandparent; to act as a grandparent. (PPN tupuna.)

2. Starting point, source; growing.

s. Name of the planet Mercury; so called from its following close after the sun.

vi., Hard, rigid; stingy, close-fisted, hard-hearted, harsh; to refuse help; to deny a request; to strut pompously; persistent.

• Examples:
  • ʻOluʻolu ʻole au e noho nei ke kani kāʻiʻī a ke oeoe (chant for Kapiʻolani), I sit here in discomfort, with the persistent, hard blowing of the whistle.
• References:
  • Cf. ʻiʻī, hard.

1. v., To strut; to be vain.

2. v., To deny a request; to turn away from one asking help.

3. v., To be stingy; to be close-fisted.

v., See pilikia. To stand close together so as to crowd.

1. v., To stand close together so as to crowd.

2. v., To be confused. See pilikia.

1. n., A bone.

2. n., The midrib of a vegetable leaf.

3. n., The side of an upland field of taro.

4. n., A coconut shell.

5. n., The stones that mark the boundaries of lands, sometimes a low stone wall; the boundary stones or stone wall. Ka iwi o na wahi a ka poe kahiko i mahi ai; the boundary stones of the places where the ancients cultivated.

6. n., A corn-cob.

7. n., The remains of a lime-pit or lime-kiln.

8. n., A near kindred; a close relative: He iwi halua oe, he iwi kau i ka awaloa.

9. n., See iiwi.

s. In music, a close; the end of a tune.

1. s., The end or beginning of a thing; the termination of an extemity; the finishing result or termination of a course of conduct.

2. A place; stead; office; successor in a place.

3. The finishing; the close of a period of time.

4. A particular age or time. Heb. 9:26, in this age of the world.

5. The time of one's death; the end of life.

6. The end, i. e., the consequence or result of an action; ma neia hope aku, from this time on; ma ia hope iho, after that time; hope ole, endless. Iob. 22:5.

adj. Close; parsimonious; kanaka ki. See PI.

Close; parsimonious: kanaka ki. Syn: Pi, miserly.

adj. Close; hard; parsimonious; stingy; he pi, he paa.

Close; stingy; penurious.

To dislike to part with; to be close or stingy; to withhold or keep back; to retain.

1. s., Hope and na for ana. The ending; the bringing to a close.

2. The end; the hindmost, as the rear of an army. Ios. 10:19.

3. The end of a series of events. Ezek. 7:2, 3.

adj., Wonderful; strange; illiberal; close.

1. v., Ma and koa, a soldier. To go forward fearlessly; to do courageously.

2. To be hard with people; to be close; to be stingy; to be unkind.

[Ma and koa, a soldier.]

1. v., To go forward fearlessly; to do courageously.

2. v., To be hard with people; to be close; to be stingy; to be unkind.

1. nvt., Trap, snare, clamp; treachery; to snap or clamp together, as a trap, the jaws, or a bivalve; to shut or close, as a flower; to pinch, as with pressure of thumb and fingers.

• Related:
  • Same as ʻōpiki.
• References:
  • See ex., pahele.

2. A tapa stamp.

1. nvi., Runner, swift messenger, as employed by old chiefs, with a premium on their speed; to run swiftly, as of a messenger; to race.

2. vi., Close together, in great numbers, as plants.

3. n., Cushion.

• Source:
  • English