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1. n.v. To drip, leak, trickle; to flow, as tears; a drop; general name for distilled liquor. Fig., disparaging term for a chief whose mother was said to be a commoner (PPN tulu.)

2. nvs. To pass, of time; time. See kulu aumoe. Ua kulu ka pō (Nak. 88), the night has passed.

3. n. Timber used in houses, as sticks, posts; fuel sticks. Cf. kūkulu, to build a house. Kūkulu hoʻomoe mai nā kulu (Kep. 163), to pile the sticks leaning against each other [of an oven].

4. vs. Drowsy (usually followed by hiamoe). Cf. kuluhio.

5. vi. Swift. Kauaʻi. Kulu ke kī a ka lio, swiftly runs the horse.

6. n. Dysentery, gonorrhea.

7. vs. To be late at night. Kulu aumoe is more common.

v. To drop, as water; kulu ka lani, the heavens dropped water, that is, it rained. Lunk. 5:4. To drop, as tears; na waimaka o kela mea keia mea e kulu i lalo; to distill from. Mel. Sol. 5:5. Hence,

2. To leak, as the roof of a house.

3. To flow, as water.

4. To fall down; to tumble over.

5. To be asleep; to dream; to be in a trance.

6. To be in a pleasant frame of mind.

7. To be near or quite midnight; ua kulu ka po; ua kulu ke aumoe.

8. To be near night; kokoke po ka la.

s. A drop of water or other liquid.

2. The dropping of water.

3. The name of a disease.

4. The name of a tree.

5. The name of a day of the month; the first night in which the moon is dark or cannot be seen.

1. A drop of water.

2. Leak from aloft; the water that comes down in alternate drops.

3. Name in general of liquor distilled through a pipe. Okolehao is called also kulu.

4. Dysentery.

5. Gonorrhea.

6. The second night after the full moon, when darkness sets in just before the moon rises; the 17th day of the month in the old Hawaiian calendar.

7. A person whose father was a chief and his mother a commoner. Syn: Kukaepopolo.

1. To drop, as water: kulu ka lani, the heavens dropped water, that is, it rained. To drop, as tears: na waimaka o kela mea keia mea e kulu i lalo; to distill from. Hence,

2. To leak, as the roof of a house.

3. To run in drops; to trickle.

4. To be drowsy; to be in a tranquil state of mind as though half asleep.

KUL 336 KUM

Dysentery, gonorrhea.

drop of water; leak from above.