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1. nvt. Greed; to covet, extort, take property by force. Cf. ʻālunu, ʻānunu, lunu. (Perhaps PPN -nu; cf. Tongan mānu-, to be always wanting.)

2. vt. Swollen, puffed up; to swell up; to swathe or roll up, as an article in tapa; to fold, bind. Ua hoʻomaka naʻe ke ʻano nunu mai o nā kuʻemaka (Kel. 18), the eyebrows began to be puffed up [raised]. (PPN ngungu.)

v. See LUNU, n for l. To covet, as the property of another, and to use some means of obtaining it. See also ALUNU.

v. To provoke.

2. To swell up; to swell up in places.

3. To roll up, as paper; e owili, e wihi.

s. See NU. A moaning; a groaning; a grunting, as of hogs; a cooing of doves; hence,

2. A dove; a pigeon from the noise they make; nunu opiopio, a young pigeon. Oih. 1:14.

3. An endearing epithet like my dear chicken. Mel. Sol. 2:14.

4. The name of a species of fish; the pipe fish.

adj. Groaning, as of persons in pain; grunting like hogs; cooing like doves.

2. Taciturn; unsocial; sullen; displeased; applied only to persons. See NUNUHA.

Groaning, as of persons in pain; grunting like hogs; cooing like doves.

1. A species of trumpet fish (Aulostomus valentini).

2. A dove; a pigeon.

3. A silent or unsocial person.

1. To covet, as the property of another, and to use some means of obtaining it. Syn: Alunu.

2. To swell up; to swell up in places. Syn: Onu.

3. To roll up, as paper; e owili.

To swell up, as in some forms of leprosy. (CMH.)

To covet, as the property of another; greedy.

Taciturn, unsocial, sullen, displeased. Applies only to men. (A.) Greed; to covet, extort. (PE.)