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1. n., Lord, master, overseer, employer, owner, possessor, proprietor.

• Examples:
  • A chief was often addressed as ē kuʻu haku, my master.
  • Kona haku, his lord.
  • ʻO Iēhowa ka Haku (Isa. 50.5), the Lord Jehovah.
• Related:
  • hoʻohaku Caus/sim.; To act as haku, dominate; to treat as a haku; to rule others, sometimes without authority; bossy.
    • ʻA ʻole ʻoe e hoʻohaku maluna ona me ka ʻoʻolea (Oihk. 25.43), you shall not rule over him with rigor.
• References:
  • See Haku-o-Hawaiʻi.
  • PCP fatu.

2. vt., To compose, invent, put in order, arrange; to braid, as a lei, or plait, as feathers.

• Examples:
  • Ka mahiole ʻie i haku ʻia i ka hulu o nā ʻiʻiwi (Laie 479), plaited helmet made with ʻiʻiwi feathers.
• References:
  • Cf. haku mele.
  • PPN fatu.

3. n., Core, lump, as of poi; stone, coconut sponge.

• Examples:
  • Haku ipu, pulp and seeds of melon.
  • Haku kā koʻi (Malo 51), stone for chipping.
• References:
  • Cf. pōhaku, haku maka, haku ʻōnohi.
  • PPN fatu.

kikino, Sponge-like material in a sprouting coconut.

• Existing dictionary word
• Related:
  • See entries below and lumi moe haku, pepeke haku.
• References:
  • Cf. niu haku.

hamani, To make, as a test; to write, as a computer program.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • Haku i ka hōʻike. To make a test.
  • Haku kōmi ʻōkuhi. To write a (computer) script.
  • Haku polokalamu. To write a program, as for a computer.
• References:
  • Cf. hana i ka hōʻike, kākau i ka hōʻike.

hamani, To program, as a computer program.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Examples:
  • E haku ana au i kekahi polokalamu nane huaʻōlelo Hawaiʻi ma kaʻu papa kamepiula. I am going to program a Hawaiian word game program in my computer class.
• Related:
  • Ka haku ʻōnaehana kamepiula ʻana. Computer programming.

1. v., To dispose of things in order; to put in order.

2. To arrange or tie feathers in a kahili; to make a wreath or lei; e haku i ka lei; e haku oe i lehua. Laieik. 146.

3. To put words in order, as in poetry; to compose a song.

4. To rule over people, i. e., to put and keep them in order; to act, as a lord over men.

5. By a change of letters, haku for kahu, to bake fish with hot stones.

6. FIG. The forming of a new affection in the mind; ka manawa i haku ai ke aloha ma ka naau.

7. Hoohaku. To rule over; to direct others. Oihk. 25:43. Haku mele, a composer of songs, i. e., a poet; nana ia i haku, he composed it.

1. v., To dispose of things in order; to put in order.

2. v., To arrange or tie feathers in a kahili; to make a wreath or lei: e haku i ka lei; e haku oe i lehua. (Laieik. p. 146.)

3. v., To put words in order, as in poetry; to compose a song.

Ball of the eye.

Owner, overseer, lord, master, ruler, pastor. (Oihk. 21:4.)

Name of several pieces of hard stone used in making the adze.

I. oia kekahi inoa o ke Akua ma ka Baibala; pili nui nae ia Iesu, ka Mesia ma ke Kauoha Hou. E nana LEHOVA.

a lord, core: to weave, compose.

1. Lord. Kupele v. Sumner, 4 Haw. 270 (1880). 2. Proprietor; possessor (HRH). 3. Owner (PE). 4. A lord; a master; an overseer; a ruler (AP).