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1. vt., To handle, use the hands; to pilfer, filch.

2. vt., To hire.

• Related:
  • hoʻolimalima Caus/sim.; To rent, hire, employ, lease, charter; paid, hired; a lease, rental.
    • Hoʻolimalima hou, sublease.
    • Ka mea hoʻolimalima, lessee, tenant.
    • ʻĀina hoʻolimalima, leased land.
    • Kanaka hoʻolimalima, hired man.
    • Kaʻa hoʻolimalima, hired car, taxi.
    • Hoʻolimalima manawa pau ʻole, perpetual lease.
    • Hoʻolimalima no ka manawa e ola ana, life-time lease.
    • He hoʻolimalima makahiki haʻahaʻa, minimum annual rent.

3. vt., To massage. Rare

4. n., Prayer in which the priest gestured with his hands; the ceremony was called hoʻopiʻi i nā ʻaha limalima, the limalima assembly rises.

v. See LIMA, hand. To handle; to employ the hands. Hoo. To hire; to bargain for work to be done; to agree with one concerning wages.

adj. Appellation of a prayer when the priest made many gestures with his hands; the ceremony was called hoopii na aha limalima.

adj. See LIMA. Full of hands; one hired to work. Hoo. That which is bargained for or hired. Ioan. 10:12.

s. Hoo. A hired person. Ioan. 10:13.

A redundant form of the adj. lima. Full of hands.

1. A hired person. [The more modern phraseology is hoolimalima.]

2. A prayer in which the priest made many gestures with his hands; the ceremony was called hoopii na aha limalima.

[Lima, hand.]

1. v., To handle; to employ the hands.

2. v., To filch; steal in a small way; handle for the purpose of secreting.

3. v., To massage.

Prayer in which the priest made many gestures with his hands. The ceremony was called hoʻopiʻi na aha limalima, the limalima assembly rises.