Ua ʻoki ʻia i ka 100 mea mua. ｜ Limited to the first 100 results.
nvs., Good, fine, all right, well; good-looking; handsome, beautiful; goodness, righteousness, benefit, well-being, morality; good looks, good health.
1. E hana; e kukulu. SYN. construct. 2. E kaohi. SYN. compel. 3. E loaa. SYN. earn; gain. Make money, e loaa i dala. 4. To make a complaint, e waiho mai i kumu hoopii. 5. To make a calculation, e helu; e noonoo helu. 6. To make known, e hooakaka ; e hoolaha, 7. Lilo. SYN. become. A good hog will make a good man, e lilo ana ke keiki mai* kai i kanaka maikai. 8. Make choice of, e koho. SYN. choose. 9. Makefile with, e lawewale. 10. Make good, (a) E hooko. Make good a promise, e hooko i kaolelo. (b.) Make good a loss, e hoihol i ka poho. 11. Make light of, e manao ole aku. SYN. to he indifferent to.
nvi., Good fortune, blessedness, blessing, profit, prosperity; prosperous, fortunate, beneficial, blessed, lucky; good luck, improvement (of property), welfare, benefits.
1. v., To grow, as a plant. Isa. 53:2.
2. To increase in any way; to grow, as a disease in the skin. Oihk. 13:39.
3. To become strong or excessive, as in anger, with puni. Puk. 32:22. To grow or increase, as good or evil in a community.
4. To grow up, as men. Iob. 31:18.
5. To grow in size and strength, as an infant. 1 Pet. 2:2.
6. To be extensively known, as a report.
7. To have spiritual possession, either good or bad; to be inspired; in this sense, mostly in the passive; as, uluia or uluhia. Mat. 8:16. To influence the affections.
8. To poke the hot stones out of the hole in which food is to be baked in order to put in food; e ulu kakou i ka umu, to throw out the stones of the oven when hot. See uluumu.
9. To stick fast, as meat or bones between the teeth of the eater.
10. Hooulu. To cause to spring up, as seed sown. FIG. O ko'u makemake nui, e hooulu. i ka hana ana ma ka pono, my great desire is to increase in good works.
v., To be handsome; to be externally good; to be pleasing to the sight.
2. To be of use; to be useful; to benefit; to be good.
3. Hoomaikai. To make good; to repair what has been wasted, lost or destroyed. 2 Oihl. 24:4. To supply a deficiency; to set things in order; to regulate.
4. To treat kindly; to speak favorably of. Kin. 12:15.
5. To bless; to praise, as in worship.
6. Passively, to cause to be blessed; to pronounce a blessing upon.
7. To honor; to reverence, as a worthy character. Puk. 20:12.
8. To exalt; to extol; to glorify.
1. v., To be handsome; to be externally good; to be pleasing to the sight.
2. v., To be of use; to be useful; to benefit; to be good; to be proper; to be in good form.
1. v., To be good; to be right; to be just; to be morally upright.
2. To do good; to bless; to be for the comfort or convenience of one.
3. To be well, i. e., in bodily health.
4. Hoopono. To justify one suspected of wrong; to clear or acquit, as an accused person. See apono.
5. To avenge an injured person.
6. To ordain; to appoint.
7. To use, as money; to trade. NOTE.—Pono is frequently used impersonally and also as a helping verb before an infinitive, and signifies, it is right; it is proper; it ought; it may; it is worthy, &c. The form e pono ai or i pono ai is used very frequently; the word expressing the thing causing the favor or good or benefit, going before. O ka naauao ka mea e pono ai ke aupuni, knowledge is a thing to bless a kingdom.
1. nvi. Seepage; to leak, ooze, seep, sink.
2. n. Fifth note on the musical scale, so.
3. intensifying particle, Very, quite, fairly, anyway.
In a good sense:
1. n., Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities; a good characteristic; excellence; superiority.
2. n., A skilled or practised person; an expert; a proficient.
In a bad sense:
3. n., A bad name or character; loss of reputation; disrepute; also, the state of being too publicly or unfavorably known; notoriety.
4. n., One who is unfavorably known to the public; a person of notoriety or ill repute.
5. n., A mythical or fabulous animal; specifically, a fabled dog: A ike aku la ia Kalahumoku i ke aiwaiwa o Tahiti.
1. adj., Cool; refreshing; agreeable: O ka makani oluolu, oia ka mea e pale ai i ka wela o ka la.
2. adj., Good natured; not easily provoked; good humored as applied to a nature of ease and cheerfulness.
1. v., To be of good cheer; to be pleasant; to be easy minded.
2. To be easy; to be regardless of the future; to be indifferent as to good or evil.
3. To live indolently; to loiter about; to take things easy; to allow of no care or anxiety.
4. To live satisfied with one’s self.
5. Hoonanea. To pretend; to make pretenses with a view to deceive.
adj., Externally good; handsome; beautiful; he wahine maka maikai, a handsome woman.
2. Morally good; upright; correct; excellent.
3. The sum of external excellence in conduct.
1. adj., Externally good; handsome; beautiful; he wahine maka maikai, a handsome woman.
2. adj., Morally good upright; correct; excellent. Externally excellent in conduct.
v. To strike or smite with the palm of the hand.
2. E pai ka lima, to strike hands, i. e., to take or confirm an agreement. Puk. 6:8. E pai na lima, a ae na waha, lilo; hence, to make a bargain. Sol. 11:15.
3. To strike the hands together expressive of much feeling; a pai pu na lima ona, he smote his hands one against another.
4. To treat a person harshly or severely; pau ae la lakou i ke paiia me ka hewa ole, they were all hardly treated without any fault; malama oia i na ’lii, aole pai uku i ko lakou aina, he took care of the chiefs, he did not tax heavily the land.
5. To strike, i. e., to tax the people or punish them; to lay a tax upon the people for some real or imaginary offense; i ka wa i huhu ai na ’lii i kanaka, o ke pae ae la no ia i ka aina, when the chiefs were angry with the people, then they struck (taxed) the land.
6. To be bound with one in affection.
7. To appear; to rise up, as out of the water; ike iki lakou ia ia e pai wale mai ana no iluna o ka ilikai, he just saw him rising above the surface of the sea.
8. To pry up or block up one side of a thing when it is pried up.
9. To stamp; to print; to impress a stamp.
10. To drive or urge one away; e pai wale, to exercise in vain; to gain nothing for what one does; a i hopu pu i ka pahu, aole no eo (na kukini), pai wale.
11. To stir up sedition; to raise a persecution; pai mai la lakou ma ka olelo kaua, they excited the people through words of war.
12. To stir up or excite one’s desires; pai aku la ia i ka makemake nui i na kii.
13. To influence one to evil.
14. To mix together two ingredients, as wine with water. Isa. 1:22.
15. To plaster a house; to spread mortar; e pai hale.
16. Hoo. To strike back; to resist; to revenge; to avenge. Nah. 31:2.
17. To punish for some offense; e hoopai aku, no ke kaua wale ana o Kahekili ia ia, to punish him for Kahekili’s making war upon him without cause.
18. To recompense either good or evil; thus, hoopai pono, or hoopai hewa.
19. To visit or come to one for evil or for good.
20. To administer justice; to requite. Kanl. 32:6. To require; to recompense.
21. To end or finish a prayer in the preparation for war.
n., Bountiful eye (Sol. 22.9); one who looks kindly, charitably, and with good will. Literally, good-hearted face.
s. Joy; gladness; good feeling; rejoicing; cheerfulness. Rom. 12:8. Gratification in a thing. Neh. 4:6. Me ka hoihoi, me ka hauoli ame ka manao lana, with good feeling, with joy and with hope.
1. n., Joy; gladness; good feeling; rejoicing; cheerfulness, gratification in a thing: Me ka hoihoi, me ka hau-oli ame ka manao lana, with good feeling, with joy and with hope.
2. n., Hopefulness; a state of being infused with happy anticipations.
1. nvs., Woman, lady, wife; sister-in-law, female cousin-in-law of a man; queen in a deck of cards; womanliness, female, femininity; feminine; Mrs.; to have or obtain a wahine; to become a woman, as an adolescent. In some chants, as those about Pele, the word wahine has a connotation of goddess (see ex., ʻolokaʻa).
2. n., Plant names.
1. nvs. Dirty, foul, fecal (Kam. 64:109); filth, dirt, soil. See ex., kūlepe #1. Kaha ʻeka, foul spot [poor soil]. Ua hoʻoleilei nā wai ona i ka wai ʻeka (Isa. 57.20), whose waters cast up mire. hō.ʻeka To soil, make dirty.
2. (Cap.) n. Name of a wind at Kona, Hawaiʻi. Ka makani kūkulu peʻa nui, he ʻEka, the ʻEka wind, that sets up big sails [good for fishing]. He ʻEka, ka makani hoʻolale waʻa o nā Kona, the ʻEka breeze calls forth the canoes of the Kona districts [good fishing].
3. n. A variety of bananas. (PH 173.)
4. n. Acre. Eng.
adv. Spoken of time; used only in the negative aole; as, aole e kala, long ago; long since; not very lately; not just now; a good while ago; aole e kala ka noho ana o na haole maanei, it is a good while that foreigners have lived here, i.e., their coming here is not lately.
Spoken of time, as: aole e kala, long ago; long since; not very lately; not just now; a good while ago; aole e kala ka noho ana o na haole maanei, it is a good while that foreigners have lived here, that is, their coming here is not lately.
Aole e kala, E kala kahiko
E kalawale i makeai
E kala kahiko.
nvs., Good will, good disposition, generosity, grace; kind, humane, gracious, benevolent, beneficent, obliging.
1. n., Ink sac in octopus or squid; after salting, drying, and broiling on the fire, it is mixed with ʻinamona or chili peppers and eaten; mixed with ʻauhuhu juice it is used as bait.
2. nvs., Scar of a scrofulous sore; to be so scarred; perhaps tuberculosis adenitis.
3. n., Aerial tubers of bitter yam, hoi (Dioscorea bulbifera 🌐).
1. v., See maikai, handsome; good. To make good; to correct; to make handsome.
2. To bless; to ascribe goodness to one; to make prosperous.
[Hoo and maikai, handsome, good.]
1. v., To make good; to correct; to make handsome.
2. v., To bless: to ascribe goodness to one; to make prosperous.
3. v., To render thanks; to thank. (Thank you, in modern common usage, is mahalo.)
1. nvs., Resemblance, appearance, likeness, match; suitable, agreeable, appropriate, matching, in good taste, attractive, becoming, pleasing, fit, like, resembling, alike, similar.
2. nvs., Sap, stain, blot; stained, discolored.
3. See limu kohu.
v. To be very good, beneficent and kind, or the contrary. Aiwaiwa refers to the excess of character, very good or very bad. Aiwaiwa ke kanaka akamai i ka naauao; aiwaiwa no hoi ke alii lokomaikai; aiwaiwa no hoi ke keiki kolohe. Aiwaiwa refers to a person accomplished with learning; it applies to a very kind-hearted chief; it also applies to a mischievous child.
v., See No.3 above. Hoomalau. To reject good advice or good principles; to treat with contempt one's principles or doctrines.
1. Redup. of lohe; to listen carefully, attentively, with good hearing. He pepeiao lolohe, an ear with good hearing. hoʻo.lolohe To iisten carefully; to strain the ear to hear. He aliʻi ʻo ka lani, he moʻopuna na Lono, he hiapo na ke kini, hoʻololohe ua (chant), the heavenly one is a chief, a descendant of Lono, the first-born of a multitude [of long lineage], a listener to the rain [unafraid of rain because of high rank].
2. vs. Stubborn; hard to move, as a rock. Rare. Cf. hoʻokololohe. hoʻo.lolohe Caus/sim.
adj. See MOMONA. Fat; rich; good, as a good soil; ua hookupu maikai oia (o Hawaii), he mona ka lepo.
[Evidently the primitive form of momona.] Fat; rich; good, as a good soil: ua hookupu maikai oia (o Hawaii), he mona ka lepo.
s. What is put together in good order; a good, well finished work.
What is put together in good order; a good, well finished work.
s. Kulana and heenalu. to swim on the surf-board. The place or village where a good surf came in that the people might have the pleasure of riding on the surf. NOTE.—A good surf from the sea was considered an important appendage to a village.
[Kulana and heenalu, to swim on the surfboard.] Place or village where a good surf came in so that the people might have the pleasure of riding on the surf. (A good surf was considered an important appendage to a village.)
vs. Good-looking, attractive, becoming. Miki-lima mīkoku, good-looking gloves.
1. The shadow of death. Syn: Malukoi, malumake.
2. A good-for-nothing person, vagabond, person as good as dead.
MAU 423 MAU
1. To separate; to pick out; to separate worthless food from the good.
2. To separate the good from the bad fish after a great haul; to cull.
Good interest, good title.
1. Ka hoolaha ana; ka hanai ana i na holoholona. 2. Ke ano o ka noho ana. Good breeding, ano keonimana. SYN. good manners.
(do), hă'nă; (build), kūku'lŭ; (compel), kŏĭ; (earn), lōă'ă; make known, hŏ'ŏlă'hă; make good (a promise), hŏ'ŏkō'; make good (a loss), ho'ĭho'ĭ; make light of, mană'ŏ 'o'lě; make much of, mană'ŏ nu'ĭ; make out (understand), hŏ'ŏmaŏpŏ'pŏ, akā'ka; make out (accomplish), kō; make over, hŏ'ŏlĭ'lŏ; make up (reconcile), hŏ- 'ŏlăŭlě'ă; makeup (adorn), pe'nă, hŏ'ŏ'ĭu'ĭ; make water (leak), li'ŭ; (urinate), mĭ'mĭ.
Good-bye; to say good-bye.
Good-bye; to say good-bye.
Intensive of hoʻi #5 (often written as two words).
1. s., Name of a tree; the bread-fruit; the fruit good for food, the timber for building, for canoes, &c.
2. Name of a stone used in a play. At Maui and Oahu this stone was called olohu. See olohu.
3. Name of the game where the said stone was used.
4. Name of an oven for baking food. See umu.
1. v., To grow, as a plant.
2. v., To increase in any way; to spread, as a disease of the skin.
3. v., To grow or increase, as good or evil in a community. To become strong or excessive. (Used with the word puni, as: ulu puni i ka huhu, to become excessively angry.)
4. v., To grow up, as men.
5. v., To grow in size and strength, as an infant.
6. v., To spread the hot stones of the imu, oven, in order to put in the food.
1. A desire; a wish; a want; a thinking much of.
2. A rejoicing; gladness, coupled with desire, good wishes, approval, etc.
nvt., Thought, idea, belief, opinion, theory, thesis, intention, meaning, suggestion, mind (Mat. 22.37), desire, want; to think, estimate, anticipate, expect (see ex., leleʻoi), suppose, mediate, deem, consider (not the intellectual process of noʻonoʻo).
Cove, surf site, Waimānalo, Oʻahu. At the north end of Kaupō Beach Park. This small bay was once a good spearfishing site for kumu and other reef fish. Also known as Baby Makapuʻu, The Bay. Literally, red goatfish.
1. v., See olu. To be comfortable; to be gratified; to be contented; satisfied. Luk. 3:14.
2. Hooluolu. To comfort; to please; to console; to please one; to render a thing agreeable.
3. To treat kindly; to be favorable; to comfort one; to cheer. Kanl. 24:5. Ua oluolu ka noho i ke kau o na 'lii maikai, it is pleasant to live in the reign of good chiefs.
1. adj., Cool; refreshing; agreeable, &c. See olu. O ka makani oluolu, oia ka mea e pale ai i ka wela o ka la.
2. Large and fat, as a fat and weak man; kanaka oluolu, an easy, good-natured man.
1. nvs., Of absorbing interest, interesting; fascinating, enjoyable; repose, leisure, tranquility; relaxed, at ease, at leisure, amused, engaged with, busy with; to have a good time.
2. Same as mohihihi, a vine.
3. n., A seaweed (Hypnea nidifica).
1. v., To be easy; to be regardless of the future; to be indifferent as to good or evil.
2. v., To live indolently; to loiter about; to take things easy; to allow of no care or anxiety.
3. v., To live satisfied with one's self.
v. To have a very good external appearance, as any substance, but internally worthless.
2. Applied to persons, to be deceitful; to act the hypocrite; to make hypocritical pretensions; to be a worthless person under a pleasant exterior.
[Hoo and kamani, outwardly attractive.]
1. To have a very good external appearance, but to be internally worthless. Applied to any substance.
2. Applied to persons, to be deceitful; to act the hypocrite; to make hypocritical pretensions; to be worthless under a pleasant exterior.
Beach, channel, reef, Lāʻie, Oʻahu. North section of Laniloa Beach adjacent to Lāʻie Point. The smaller of two sand pockets on Laniloa Beach that are good for swimming. Also known as Clissold Beach. Lit., slight breeze.
1. s., A door-way; a gate-way; an entrance; a hole; puka o ke kui, puka o ke kuikele, the eye of a needle; puka lou, a loop hole. Puk. 25:5. Any place of entrance or egress; puka pepeiao, the ear; i hoakakaia’ku ma ka puka o ko oukou mau pepeiao. NOTE.—Puka as a noun takes various forms, as puka, aipuka, ipuka, upuka and kanipuka, all which see.
2. The art of making spears, ropes, &c., that appear well but really are good for nothing and vice versa.
3. A curious art; a trick; the practice of legerdemain; hoopiopio.
1. n., A doorway; a gateway; an entrance; a hole; any place of entrance or egress; puka o ke kui, puka o ke kuikele, the eye of a needle; puka lou, a loop hole; puka pepeiao, the ear; i hoakakaia 'ku ma ka puka o ko oukou mau pepeiao. (Puka as a noun takes various forms: aipuka, ipuka, upuka and amipuka.)
2. n., The art of making spears, ropes, etc., that appear well but really are good for nothing and vice versa
3. n., A trap or snare used in the practice of legerdemain.
4. n., A winning or profit. Syn: Hoopiopio.
1. nvs., Sun, sun heat; sunny, solar.
3. n., A sail.
4. n., Fin.
5. n., Each of two cross sticks holding corners of the dip net called ʻupena ʻākiʻikiʻi.
6. Common demonstrative occurring after both nouns and verbs, and as the last part of the demonstrative kēlā that (far, see table 12 in Gram. 7.2) and pēlā, like that; following directionals it is usually unstressed and written as the concluding part of the directional (aʻela, akula, ihola, maila). It occurs also in the sequence ua (noun) lā, that aforementioned.
7. Particle expressing doubt, uncertainty.
8. n., The letter “l”.
9. n., Sixth note on the musical scale, la.
10. interjection, Common refrain in songs, as in Elbert and Mahoe 90.
s., A barren, fruitless plant or tree.
2. A soldier; plural, soldiers; an army; a multitude.
3. The horned coral; the same as akoakoa; the coral rock; koa ahi and koa opelu, places among the coral rocks where the fishes ahi and opelu are found; o ke koa a lakou e lawaia ai, the coral is where they fished; he puu koa, a clump of coral rocks.
4. A mean beggar.
5. The name of a large tree growing on the mountains, good for furniture, of which canoes are made and instruments of war.
6. A mistake in speaking or acting; doing what was not designed.
7. In geography, a sound; a strait; a channel; waha koa, a strait. See KOWA.
8. A broad, prominent forehead.
n., Brazen look; horse eye of a whitish color, but with good vision. Literally, brass eye.
1. vs., Native, indigenous, aborigine, genuine, true, real, actual; very, really, truly.
2. n., A variety of ʻahi, a fish that may weigh about 90 kilos; it has light, slightly pinkish flesh.
3. n., A native variety of banana, with tall, green trunk; the fruit forming large, compact bunches, having thick yellow skin and sweet yellow flesh; edible cooked or raw.
4. n., A variety of sweet potato.
v., To pay; remunerate; to pay, as a fine. Puk. 21:30. To pay a tax or debt.
2. To compensate either good or bad, according to what has been previously done. Puk. 34:7. SYN. with hoopai.
3. To reward; require or demand punishment for an offense.
4. To bring evil upon one, as a punishishment.
5. PASS. To be punished; to be paid, as wages; e uku hewa, to punish; e uku maikai, to reward.
6. Hoouku. To reward; to pay for a benefit. 2 Sam. 19:36. To lay a fine upon one. Kanl. 22:19.
1. v., To pay; remunerate; to pay, as a fine; to pay a tax or debt.
2. v., To compensate either good or bad, according to what has been previously done. Syn: Hoopai.
3. v., To be small.
adj., Good; beautiful; splendid; fresh; new.
v. To be like the helo or ohelo, a reddish brown; hence,
2. To be good looking; grand; proud.
1. To be reddish brown, like the helo or ohelo.
2. To be good looking; to be grand or proud in appearance.
3. To be vain or proud of one's attire.
4. To be showy.
1. v., To break out into boils and blisters. See puu.
2. Hoopuupuu. To heap up; to pile up in heaps.
3. To be or become lumpy; not smoothly soft as good poi.
[Puu, a swelling.]
1. v., To break out into boils and blisters.
2. v., To be heaped up; to be piled up in heaps.
3. v., To be or become lumpy; not smoothly soft as good poi.
1. adj., Good; right; lawful; acceptable; beautiful; nani.
2. Possible; able; proper; fit; wa pono, a proper time.
1. adj., Good; right; lawful; acceptable; beautiful.
2. adj., Possible; able; proper; fit: wa pono, a proper time.
1. n., Goodness; uprightness; moral good; rectitude of conduct.
2. n., That which is right or excellent; abstract righteousness; excellency.
3. n., Duty; obligation; authority; custom; practice.
1. Reduplication of leʻa #1; to have a good time; fun, gaiety (see ex. henehene), amusement.
2. n., Name of a prayer to Kū, Kāne, Lono, and the ʻaumākua (family gods).
s. The inner part; that which is within; applied to persons or things.
1. To persons, the internal organs.
2. The moral state or disposition of a person, either good or bad, according to its compounds; as, loko maikai, loko ino, &c.
3. Applied to things, the within; the interior; that which belongs within; the inwards; ia po no, ai no i ka loko o ka ilio noa, on that night indeed, they ate the inwards of a dog not forbidden; he mau mea e pili ana maloko o ka naau; ia loko, the within. Mat. 23:26. NOTE.—The Hawaiians believed that the moral powers or dispositions had their seat in the small intestines. See NAAU.
The inner part; that which is within; applied to persons or things:
1. To persons, the internal organs.
2. The moral state or disposition of a person, either good or bad, according to its compounds; as, loko maikai, loko ino, etc.
3. Applied to things, the interior.
4. Applied to animals, the internal organs: ia po no, ai no i ka loko o ka ilio noa. On that night indeed, they ate the inwards of a dog not forbidden; he mau mea e pili ana maloko o ka naau; ia loko, the within. (The Hawaiians believed that the moral powers or dispositions had their seat in the small intestines. See naau.)
1. v., To coincide; to agree with, as boards jointed.
2. To cleave or adhere to, as persons good or bad as friends; to lay a wager; to bet; a pili nui mai i ko lakou waiwai a pau; pili kekahi wahine i kona kino iho, a lilo i ka pu.
3. To become one’s to account for or to take care of.
4. To agree together, as witnesses.
5. To belong to; to accompany; to follow.
6. Hoopili. To join company with; to adhere to one; applied to persons.
7. To seal up, as a document. Dan. 12:4.
8. To approach to one of the opposite sex for defilement.
9. To be united to; to adhere to each other, as husband and wife.
10. To add something else to a thing. Kanl. 4:2.
11. To treat badly; to reproach; to cast up to one.
adj., Perfect; good; skillful; wise; he hemolele, he maikai, he akamai, he naauao.
1. v., Po, intensive, and maikai, handsome; good. To be fortunate; to be lucky.
2. To be successful in a pursuit.
3. To be happy; to be blessed; to enjoy peace; to be highly favored.
4. Hoopomaikai. To bless; to make prosperous; to be prospered. Kin. 39:2. To cause to prosper.
s., Good fortune; peace; quietness; enjoying what one desires; comfort; a blessing.
n., Good fortune: peace: quietness: enjoying what one desires; comfort: a blessing.
[Po. intensive, and maikai. handsome; good.]
1. v., To be fortunate; to be lucky.
2. v., To be successful in a pursuit.
3. v., To be happy: to be blessed: to enjoy peace; to be highly favored.
1. s., Any round protuberance belonging to a larger substance.
2. A small round hill; a peak; a pimple; a wart; the knuckles; the ankle joints; the Adam's apple of the throat; hence, the throat; a knop; an ornament of a candle-stick. Puk. 25:3.
3. The material heart. 2 Sam. 18:14.
4. A heap; he puu opala, a heap of rubbish; na puu huapalaoa, shocks of grain. Lunk. 15:5.
5. A tower; a citadel; a substance; a portion; a lot in casting lots. Nah. 34:18.
6. A quantity; part; property; destiny; appointment; fortune. Rut. 2:5.
7. Habit; custom; eia ko kakou wahi puu iki, o ka hoohaunaele i ka manawa kula.
8. Any act or thing causing ridicule, contempt, or perhaps anger, as an offense against good manners or morals; he ino, he mea e loiloi ai, a e hoowahawaha ai paha; he kina, no ka hilahila kona holo ana (o Poki), no ka mea, aole he puu nui ma ka puka o kona hale, out of shame, he (Poki) sailed away, because there was no — at the door of his house.
9. A hand, i. e., the cards held at a game.
s. A protuberance with an enclo- sure, as the belly, stomach, bladder, &c.; as, opu o ke kai, the heart, belly (midst) of the sea; the crop of a bird. Oihk. 1:16. The maw of animals. Kanl. 18:3. The womb. Lunk. 16:17. A round, liver-like substance in the hog and other animals.
2. The name of a heap upon which a god stands; a bunch or bundle of small wood, grass, weeds, &c.; a hill or bunch of kalo growing together. See OPUU.
3. The disposition of a person; state of mind. See the compounds OPUAO, OPUINO, OPUKOPEKOPE, &c. Opu is here SYN. with naau. NOTE.—The Hawaiians suppose the seat of thought, intelligence, &c., and also the seat of moral powers, as the choice and practice of good and evil, to be seated in the small intestines; hence, naau or opu (the small intestines) is used for what we should call the heart, i. e., the seat of the moral powers. See NAAUAO, NAAUPO, NAAUINO, compared with opuao, opuino, &c. See NAAU.
1. n., A protuberance with an enclosure, as the belly, stomach, bladder; the crop of a bird; the maw of animals; the womb; a round, liver-like body in the hog and other animals: Opu o ke kai, the rising of the sea
2. n., A heap upon which a god stands; a bunch or bundle of small wood, grass, weeds, etc.; a hill or bunch of taro growing together.
3. n., The disposition of a person; state of mind. Syn: Naau. (The Hawaiians supposed the seat of thought and intelligence, etc., and also the seat of moral powers, as the choice and practice of good and evil, to be in the small intestines; hence, naau or opu is used for what we should call the heart, that is, the seat of the moral powers.)
adj. Red hot; raging, as fire; epithet of an oven when red hot; applied also to anger.
2. Angry; wild; untamed, as an animal; full of fury.
3. Jealous, as a bird of a snare, or fearful, as a villain of good men; threatening, as some kinds of clouds that threaten a storm.
1. vs., Useless, unproductive, vain, to no profit, good-for-nothing, worn-out; completely unattractive.
2. n., A coarse mat or tapa.
1. Reduplication of pili #1; any sticky matter, adhesive; pasty, gluey, viscid.
2. Same as pipili 2, an herb.
s. A border or edge of a thing where it unites or is near to another when in contact, as edges of bones. Anat. 6. A border, edge or boundary of a land; the seam or place of uniting in a garment.
2. A lot or portion of land marked off. Isa. 57:6. Lihi wai, a border or edge of water. Ios. 3:8 A part or portion. SYN. with kuleana. Hoik. 22:19. He lihi maikai ka liki o ka hana, a good fitting is the tightness of the work.
3. The union or nearness of relationship, i. e., the friendship of relationship; he mea e maopopo ai ke ano hoahanau ana.
4. The bending of an arch upward, as a rainbow.
5. The rainbow itself.
6. With iki, a very small portion of a thing; lihi iki, a very small piece. SYN. with huna, a small fragment. Mat. 5:18, also Oih. 8:21. Aole ona wahi lihi ike iki i ka ka Haku olelo, he has no knowledge at all of the Lord's word.
s Poo, head, and koi, sharp as an axe. A person having a sharp or projecting forehead. NOTE.—Such were supposed to have something supernatural about them and had the power of using the pule anaana, that is, of praying people to death.
2. A person lacking good sense; he mea i manaoia he lapuwale.
[Poo, head, and koi, an axe.]
1. A person having a sharp or projecting forehead. Such persons were supposed to have the power of using the pule anaana, that is, of praying people to death.
2. A person lacking good sense.
1. v., To select; to pick out; to choose. Puk. 12:21.
2. To sort out the good from the bad; to separate; to set aside; to draw out some from among others; wae ae la ke kuhina i na waa kupono ke holo. Laieik. 100.
3. To break and separate, as the parts of a thing.
4. To dwell upon, as the mind in thinking of an event.
5. To think; to reflect; to consider a case. See wa.
1. v., To select; to pick out; to choose.
2. v., To sort out the good from the bad; to separate; to set aside; to draw out some from among others; wae ae la ke kuhina i na waa kupono ke holo. Laieik. p. 100
3. v., To break and separate, as the parts of a thing.
4. v., To dwell upon, as the mind in thinking of an event.
5. v., To think; to reflect; to consider a case.
s., A rejoicing; gladness; self satisfaction; being on good terms with the gods.
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