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1. nvs. Swollen; distended; swelling; to swell; dropsy, edema. Fig., swollen with pride or conceit; longing to eat, hunger (short for makapehu, eyes big with hunger). Type of pehu, dropsy, were qualified by the terms ale ʻai, food gulping; kālaʻe, clearing. See wāwae pehu and below. Kai pehu, surging sea. Maʻi pehu, dropsy. Moaʻe pehu, a strong Moaʻe wind. A loaʻa i ke kanaka ka pehu ʻana, ma ka ʻili o kona ʻiʻo, ā ʻo ka pehu pala paha (Oihk. 13.2), when a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab. He kuleana pehu, ka hoʻokaʻa pehu (For. 6:402), a business of swelling in pride, a prideful paying of debt. Hō mai he iʻa na ka pehu o uka (PH 29), give some fish for the big [-eyed] hungry ones ashore. hoʻo.pehu To swell, cause to swell, brag, boast. (PCP pe(f,s)u.)

2. n. A variety of sweet potato.

3. n. A kind of seaweed.

v. To swell, as any part of the body from injury or disease. Kanl. 8:4. Hoo. To cause a swelling. Nah. 5:2.

2. To swell, i. e., to increase in size generally; to enlarge. See UPEHU and UPEHUPEHU.

s. A swelling; a blain; a boil. Oihk. 13:2. Pehu nui, a great swelling.

2. The name of a game; o ka pehu ma ka hale.

adj. Swollen; enlarged; mai pehu, the dropsy. See UPEHUPEHU.

Swollen; enlarged: mai pehu, the dropsy. Syn: Upehupehu.

A swelling; a blain; a boil: pehu nui, a great swelling.

1. To swell from injury or disease.

2. To swell; to increase in size generally; to enlarge. Syn: Upehupehu.

Longing to eat; hungry.

Dropsy; swollen; a blain. (Oihk. 13:2.)

Variety of sweet potato. (HP 142.)

a swelling; to swell.