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1. vt., To remove the dregs, such as fibers, from herbs used for medicine; to strain.

2. vt., To criticize constructively, as chanting; to look for flaws in order to perfect; to teach, correct.

3. n., Raindrops, patter of rain, especially of big drops.

• Examples:
  • ʻO ka ua paka kahi, paka lua, pakapaka ua, paka ua, kūlokuloku (chant for Kua-kini), the rain falling in single drops, in double drops, the many drops, raindrops, rain in streams.
  • Hana ka uluna i ka paka o ka ua, work the pillow during the dropping of rain [i.e., might as well rest when it's raining].
• References:
  • PCP pata.

4. Same as kākala, cartilage.

5. n., Kaʻū name for ʻōpakapaka, a fish.

6. n., Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum 🌐), a hairy annual herb from tropical America, which may grow nearly 2 m high, introduced to Hawaiʻi in about 1812. It was tried out unsuccessfully from 1908 to 1929 as a possible industry. Plants are now growing both wild and cultivated. Wild tobacco (Nicotiana glauca 🌐).

• References:
  • Neal 751-752.

7. n., Butter (usually follows waiū).

• Source:
  • English.

8. n., Curds.

• Source:
  • English.
• Related:
  • Also: bata.
• References:
  • Kin. 18.8, KJV.

9. n., Bugger.

• Source:
  • English.

1. v., To make war; to fight; to strike, as large drops of rain upon dry leaves, making a noise.

2. To cut; to pare; to peel off.

3. To fend off or turn aside, as the stern does a canoe to avoid a wave which threatens to fill it.

4. To shoot or slide a canoe or surf-board on a wave.

5. To prepare before hand for any business or any event.

1. s., Any small round substance, as the head of a pin; a knot at the end of a rope.

2. The sharp projections on the sides of the tail of certain fish, as the kala, the palani and the manini.

3. A flat calabash, so called because large and flat.

4. A stone used by fishermen.

5. Paka is sometimes written for baka, tobacco.

1. adj., Lean, as flesh; destitute of fat.

2. Ready; prepared; furnished.

3. Old; aged.

adv., Clearly; plainly; intelligibly; evidently. SYN. with lea, pono and maopopo. Ua oki paka, haalele i na mea ino a pau.

1. v., To cut at random; to cut in long slits.

2. v., To ride the surf with a canoe.

3. v., To turn, shoot or slide, as a surfboard or canoe.

v., To call; to proclaim; to herald.

1. n., A round flat calabash.

2. n., Stone used by fishermen as a sinker.

1. n., The sharp projections on the sides of the tail of certain fish, as the kala, the palani and the manini.

2. n., Tobacco.

adv., Clearly; plainly; intelligibly; evidently. Syn: Lea, pono, maopopo: Ua oki paka, haalele i na mea ino a pau.

1. adj., Lean, as flesh; destitute of fat.

2. adj., Old; aged.

Stone used as a sinker on a fishing line in deep waters; to fish with a hook and line not using a pole, as with ulua.

The pattering of raindrops is paka or lokuloku; their gentle dripping would be called nākulu- kulu.

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). (NEAL 752.) See Plants: Uses.

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), a native of tropical America, the source of commercial tobacco. A large, sticky, hairy herb that grows to 6 feet. It has been in Hawaiʻi since 1812, where it has been tried in plantings in Kona and elsewhere but without success. Plants are both wild and grown as ornamentals. (NEAL 752.)

Raindrops. See pakapaka.

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), an annual herb from tropical America, introduced in Hawaiʻi about 1810. (NEAL 664.) To criticize constructively, as in chanting; to make war, fight; to strike, as large drops of rain upon dry leaves; clearly, intelligently.

tobacco; rain drops: to listen and correct pupils’ errors; to park.