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1. vi., To huddle or sit crouched, as with cold.

2. n., Feathers on the back of a bird above the puapua, tail feathers.

Nā LepiliTags: anatomy birds

1. nvt., Hill, as of sweet potatoes; dune; to hill up.

2. vt., To attack, force, ravish, rape, compel.

  • Examples:
    • Keiki puʻe, boy or youth who ravishes women.
  • References:
    • Puk. 22.16.
    • PPN puke.

3. n., A lobelia (Lobelia gaudichaudii 🌐 var. kauaensis) found only in mountains of Kauaʻi. The stem, 1 to 2 m high, bears a tuft of narrow leaves 15 cm long, and three or four racemes of large flowers, whitish streaked with purple.

Nā LepiliTags: flora flowers

v. To thrust, as with a spear; to make an attack, as in battle; to make an onset.

2. To crowd on; to gain what is another’s; to force; to compel; a lohe na kanaka, ua make kekahi alii, pue lakou e kaua, when the people heard that one of their chiefs was dead, they were urgent to fight; to urge; e pue ana lakou ia Kamehameha, they were urging Kamehameha.

3. To solicit strongly.

4. To manage so as to make it necessary for one to do a thing; a pue iho la o Poki ia Kaahumanu e kaua, Poki urged Kaahumanu to war, i. e., he planned to make a war unavoidable.

5. To force; to compel, i. e., to commit lewdness. Eset. 7:8.

6. To solicit to lewdness; to seduce, as a virgin; to commit a rape. Puk. 22:16. E hoala i ka mea e moekolohe ai. See PUEWALE. E pue i ka wahine, to ravish; to commit a rape.

7. To make a round elevated hill, as in weeding out and hilling up potatoes.

8. To attack or besiege a city. Ier. 32:2.

s. A round heap of dirt or mud for planting kalo or potatoes; a potato hill.

2. A raised surf of fresh water; he nalu o ka wai.

3. The name of a bush or tree.

1. A round heap of dirt or mud for planting taro or potatoes; a potato hill.

2. Meeting of opposite currents of water. Syn: Puewai.

To be chilled, as one shaking with cold.

1. To thrust, as with a spear; to make an attack, as in battle; to make an onset.

2. To crowd on; to gain what is another's; to force; to compel; A lohe no kanaka, ua make kekahi alii, pue lakou e kaua. When the people heard that one of their chiefs was dead, they were urgent to fight; to urge: E pue ana lakou ia Kamehameha, they were urging Kamehameha.

3. To solicit strongly.

4. To manage so as to, make it necessary for one to do a thing: A pue iho la o Poki ia Kaahumanu e kaua. Poki urged Kaahumanu to war. that is. he planned to make a war unavoidable.

5. To force; to compel. that is. to commit rape.

6. To make a round elevated hill, as in weeding out and hilling up potatoes.

To attack, ravish, rape.

Feather lei made from short, firm feathers not as soft as ʻēʻē feathers.

To solicit strongly; to seduce, as a virgin; to ravish, rape, compel. (Puk. 22:16.)

Lobelia (Lobelia gaudichaudii var. kauaensis), found only on mountains on Kauaʻi. It has large whitish flowers streaked with purple. (PE 321.)

Hill, as of sweet potatoes. The ancients planted potatoes in mounds. (NP 132.)

To thrust a spear; to attack; to besiege a village or town.

potato hill: to hill potatoes; to onset, attack, ravish, force.

to solicit to lewdness, to seduce to sin.

1. Hill as of sweet potatoes. 2. Dune (PE).

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