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Follo hoo'o ky; to swallow greedily.

Fo'nno. To inlay.

Fonnoo'a. Land; clime; country round about; a people. Fonnoo'a ta'ha. Of one country, compatriot.

Lolto fonnoo'a. Midland; inland.

Fonnoola-loto. The stone sepulchre, in which the bodies. of chiefs are interred. See Loto.

Fono. A public harangue on matters, generally of civil policy. See vol. i. p. 295.

The food that is eaten at cava parties; also the act of
eating it.

Fono'nga. A walk; a journey by land; a jaunt.
Fono'ngo. Hark! to listen; to hearken.

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To clap the hollow palms of the hands together. Foo'a ca'va (corruption of foo he ca'va, to clap the hands for the ca'va), an oath; because a solemn oath is generally confirmed by taking a cup of cava. Nali foo he ca'va; he took an oath.

Fooa. The shape.

Fruit; blossom.

Bearing fruit; to carry a parcel, or burden.

All; (in quantity of mass, or bulk).

Also a corruption of Foo he, as foóa ca'va. See FooFoo'a-bé. All; (all in quantity of bulk, or mass), every: universally; wholly.

Foo'a-bé foo'a-bé. Altogether (in respect of extent, mass, or bulk).

Foo'a-ca'va. An oath. See Foo.

Foola-ca'va lo'hi. Perjury (lóki, false).

Foo-acco'w. A general name for the vegetable kingdom.

Foo'a-caca'la. A flower; a blossom.

Fooa-ca'va. An oath (derived from foo'a, to call, he ca'va,

the cava, as a solemn oath is generally taken at a cava ring.) See Foo.

Fooa-fenike-anga. The name of the twelfth lunar month. Foo'a-foo'a. A pimple; any eruption on the skin; a carbuncle, &c.

Foo'afooa'nga. Pumice-stone.

Fooa'gi. To make a present; to give: given.

Méa fooalgi; a present, or gift (a thing given.) Foo'a-hífo. To lie along on the ground, with the face downwards.

Foo'a-möoo'i-fila. Sudden death; a swoon.

Fooa'nga. A grindstone; a whetstone.

Foolchi. To haul; to pull, as foochi la; to haul on the sheet.

To deplume (as to pluck a fowl).

The plantain.

Foole. A whisk used to keep off flies.

Foofoo. To hide; to conceal; to disguise.

Retired; hidden; snug; concealed; disguised.

Foofoo'la. Swollen; protuberant; bloated; large-bellied;

intumescence.

Foofoolloo. To wash: lavation; washing.

Foolga. A flag: colours; a streamer, as used in canoes.

Foohoo. Boxing.

Foo'la. Swollen; bloated; large-bellied.

Habitual expectoration from disease.

Foo-lahi. Huge; very great.

Foo'li. All; (in number, not mass, or quantity of bulk),

Foo'li-be. All; (in number, not mass, or quantity of bulk). Fooloo. Hair of the body.

Fooloo-fooloo. Hairy.

Foo'loo-he-ma'noo. Feathers.

Foonga. The beach; the deck of a vessel; the top or sunmit of a hill where it is flat: the top of any thing. Foonga vaca; the deck of a vessel.

Foonga mōoo'nga. The top of a hill, or mountain: the summit of an island.

Foo'o. Afresh; anew: new.

Fooohagi. To lie along on the ground with the face upwards.

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To strive with muscular energy: to struggle. Fow. A frontlet; a fillet round the forehead: headband. A turban of any sort.

Sufficiently.

Fowa'gi. To load; to freight, &c. as a basket, or canoe. Fucca. To make, to fashion; after the manner of: a frequent sign of the adverb: also often the sign by which the noun is changed into the verb; consequently it is often used in compound words. See the list of words of this class, at the end of the letter F.

Fu'ngatoo'a. To wrestle.

Fy. A fish called the sting-ray.

To do, to make.

Fy-fy. To go on incessantly doing; as, gooa tow fy-fy bea há, we go on incessantly doing, and what? i, e. what is the result.

Fyanga. Competition; rivalship.

Fya'nge. To proceed in a discourse, or performance. Fyfo'ki. Encore! as exclaimed at public assemblies (from fy, do; and fo'ki, if you please).

Fylfy béaho'w. Casual, accidental.

Fy'géhe. To differ; to do differently.

A peculiarity, or something different from the

common.

Marvellous; strange; original.

Fy'gna-méa. Actions; deeds; (fylgna, corruption of Fy

unga).

Fy'gna-pú. Ananas, or the pine-apple.

Fyg'natá. Difficult; arduous.

Fy'gnofoóa. Easy to be accomplished; easy.

Fy'gnofoóa-ange. Easily.

Fy-teli'ha. To choose, or do as one pleases; choice; will; pleasure.

Fytóca. A grave or burying-place.

Fy'-y-bé. Suddenly; unexpectedly.

Fúcca. See this word under the proper alphabetical arrangements.

Fúcca áä. To arouse; to awaken; to keep awake.

---áfoo-máte.
-áfoo-möoói.
ánga géhe.
disposition.

The name of the ninth lunar month.

The name of the tenth lunar month. According to a different turn; mode or

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aw tow. An advanced party going forward to encourage the enemy on to battle. It is more usually pronounced fucca haw tow, which see.

bécoo. To blunt; to obtund.

bibico. See fúcca bico-bíco.

bíco. To bend; to incurvate.

bíco-bíco, or fucca bibíco. To be lazy or dronish;

to harass; remiss, or faulty in one's duty.

bico bico-ange. Indolently.

bígi. To cement or cause to adhere.
bihi. To splash; to infect.

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Fucca bíto. To fiil.

booáca. To go on all fours, like a swine; swinish. booboóha. To swelter; to be uncomfortable with

heat.

boóla mátta. To hector or bluster, (literally, to make the eyes swell.)

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bó-oóli. To encloud or become cloudy; to be

lurid or dark.

boóta. To lay a wager.

bópo. To moulder.

bo'too oo'a. On both sides.

cacáha. To enkindle; to enflame.

cacáva, Sudorific; sweaty; causing sweat.

cáffo. To maim,

caky'. To people.

cáta. To cause laughter; risible.

cáwna. To envenom; to intoxicate (with cava.) chíno. Alible; nutritive; fattening; to fatten. chi-chi. Softly; quietly; slightly; to abbreviate or reduce; to decrease.

I'noo fucca chi chi. To sip.

Vicoo fucca chi chi.

cóa. To spume; to froth.

Moist.

co'foo. To wrap up; to inclose as a parcel; any part of European dress, as cofoo ráe, a stocking, &c. coolla-coo'la. To rubify; to redden.

co'vi. To calumniate; to vitiate; to make bad.

éfoo. To pulverize.

égi. To consecrate; like a chief; noble.

Mo'wmo'w mea fu'cca égi. To profane ; profanation; sacrilege.

élo. To turn putrid; to become stinking.

elo'a. To betray; to communicate; to tell; to relate.

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