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1. n., Hawaiian pearl oyster (Pinctada radiata 🌐); in songs this is known as the iʻa hāmau leo o ʻEwa, ʻEwa's silent sea creature [it was believed that talking would cause a breeze to ripple the water and frighten the pipi].

• References:
  • PPN pipi.

2. Feelers of an insect, as of an ant.

3. Same as moa #3 (Psilotum 🌐).

4. A kind of tapa.

5. Body depression; eyeball.

• Rare

6. Lower part of an adze.

• Rare
• References:
  • Malo 51.

7. Beef, cattle, ox.

• Source:
  • English.
• Related:
  • Also: bipi.
  • ʻIʻo pipi, beef meat.
• References:
  • See pipi kāne, pipi wahine.

kikino Pearl oyster. Dic. Cf. kupekio. Pepa lole pipi. Butcher paper. ʻAlekuʻu kau pipi. Cattle egret.

v. See PI, to throw water. To sprinkle. Oihk. 1:5. To wet by sprinkling water or blood. FIG. For purifying. Isa. 52:15.

2. Hoo. To smoulder; to continue to burn without a flame, as the wick of a lamp. Isa. 42:3. To burn, as green or wet wood.

3. To talk back; to reply in offensive terms to something said; to chide; to quarrel.

4. To be multitudinous or many; to stand thickly together; to be a multitude. See KUPIPI.

s. An oyster; he ano paiea, he ano ia; a kind of fish.

2. The center of a sea-shell, that is, the place where the meat adheres to the shell; hence.

3. The center of the eye; the sight.

4. The hen or female of the bird oo.

5. O kahi malalo e polipoli ana, he pipi ka inoa o ia wahi.

s. Eng. More properly written bifi. A foreign animal, first introduced by Captain Vancouver in 1793 or 1794 from Mexico; neat cattle generally. See BIPI.

adj. Incombustible; smouldering, as fire under green wood.

2. Almost extinguished; not burning easily. Hoo. Smoking, like something that will not blaze. Mat. 12:20.

3. Thick together; ku pipi; set thickly together, as kalo in rows.

4. Thick together without order; huikau.

5. Multitudinous; crowded many together.

NOTE.—With this orthography may be found some words which should have been written piipii. See PIIPII, adj.

The female of the, bird oo.

1. To percolate, as water from a bed of rock.

2. To urinate.

[Pi, to throw water.]

1. To sprinkle; to wet by sprinkling water or blood.

2. Fig. To purify.

3. To smoulder; to continue to burn without a flame. as the wick of a lamp; to burn. as green or wet wood.

1. The feelers of an insect.

2. Any depression on the body; a mino.

3. [Eng. beef ] (Generally written bipi) Neat cattle.

1. An oyster; he ano paiea, he ano ia. The oyster and its shell.

2. The center of the eye; the sight.

1. Smouldering as fire under green wood.

2. Almost extinguished; not burning easily; smoking, like something that will not blaze.

Center of the eye; pupil.

Hawaiian pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera). In songs it is best known as iʻā hamau leo o ʻEwa, Ewaʻs silent sea creature, as it was believed that talking would cause a breeze to ripple the water and frighten the pipi. (EAK 516.)

Lower part or blade of an adze.

pearl oyster; beef, cattle.

to spray, to sprinkle; to urinate.