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kuehu, kuwehu
vt. To shake, stir up, as dust; to knock a club from a foe's hands; to toss up, as spray; to brandish, wave; to clear of weeds; to drive off, especially evil spirits (tapa or ti leaves were torn into strips, blessed, and passed over a patient in order to exorcise spirits). Cf. ehu, spray. See Kuehu Lepo. ʻO ka pali o Kīkī-ʻōpua i Hoʻomalele, e lele ana nā momoku kuehu pali (For. 6:472), at the cliffs of Kīkī-ʻōpua at Hoʻomalele, firebrands leap spraying over cliffs.
KU-E-HU
v. Ku and ehu, to drive away. To stir up; to make turbid, as water; to shut off, as water running over land.
2. To shake the dust from a mat.
3. To let go; to cast away, as a thing not desired.
4. To hold up; to present, as a signal for something; a kuehu ae la oia i ka lepa o kona aahu. Laieik. 22.
Kuehu (kū'-ē'-hu), v.
/ kū'-ē'-hu /[Ku and ehu, to drive away.]
1. To drive away.
2. To stir up; to make turbid, as water.
3. To shut off, as water running over land.
4. To shake off as dust from a mat.
5. To let go; to cast away, as a thing not desired.
Kuehu (kū-ĕ'-hu), v.
/ kū-ĕ'-hu /To brandish or move something one way and the other, as in communicating by signals; to wave: Kuehu ae la oia i ka lepa o kona aahu; he waved the fringe of his robe.—Laieik. p. 22.
Ku-e-hu
to stir up, make turbid, to shake off the dust from a mat, to let go,
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