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Fucca too'goo. To appease; fu'cca tooga énne i'ta (to appease his anger,) to interrupt.

tootoo'e he momo'co. To tabefy; to waste away, as the body with a consumption.

toto'noo. To straighten; to make a discourse clear and direct; upright.

totoo'ë. To macerate.

tow. To barter, truck or deal with; to commute; to lay a wager or bet.

To squeze or wring out, as water out of a sponge. va. To disport, play, or toy.

váca. Haft; handle.

vakky'. Mindful.

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vakkyánge. Warily; carefully.

váky. To plait; to pucker.

váve. To accelerate; quicken; to go faster; cur

sory.

vavéa. To huddle.

vícoo. To dip or wet any thing.

vy'. To dissolve; to melt; to indrench.
vy-vy'. To enervate; weaken; invalidate.

Ge. Yet.

G.

Géa. A species of the bread fruit.

Géhe. Different; differently; apart; separate; separately;

removed; contrary; uncommon; also elsewhere; which last word cannot be expressed by ge'he-ge'he, which see. Géhe-géhe. The same meaning as gehe, only that it does not mean elsewhere.

Géle. A dike; a ditch; to dig; to intrench.

Géle-géle. Earth or mould; the ground; no fo ge'le, living in mud.

Géle-geléa. Muddy; miry.

Geléa. A conch; also muddy; slimy.

Gélemoo'too. The common earth-worm.

Gémo. The eyelash.

Gémoo. To wink.

Géna. To champ; to munch; to devour; to eat; to corrode or canker, as iron or cloth with age and ex

posure.

Genanga. Food; also any place where people have sat down to eat.

Ger. The sign of the infinitive mood to; also of the subjnnctive or potential mood that.

Ger. Thou.

Géte. The abdomen; the belly; the stomach; the gizzard of fowls.

Gétoo. Lame; to hobble; méle-méle gétoo, to hop.

Ghe. A quarrel; disturbance; affray; dispute; to wrangle; to dispute.

Gi. To whistle.

Gi. At; to; into; than (see gia,) towards; among; through; until; before (in point of excellence ;) against; opposite.

Gia. Than; (only used when the subject referred to for comparison has a proper name, as this box is heavier than Toobo'; otherwise gi is used;) also to or towards, used before proper names.

Gi-ai. There; in that place.

Gi-alo'onga. Above; aloft; on; upon.

Giáte. To; na fecow ia giate gi'nowtoloo, he commanded them; he bade to them; among; used chiefly before

pronouns.

Gi-bo'too. On one side; towards.

Gi-fé? Where? whither?

Gi-háge. Upwards.

Gi-héna. There; thither.

Gi-héni. Here; hither; to this place.

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Gi-lo'to. In the middle; amidst; half way; inside; in.

Gi-moo'a. In front; first in rank or place; forwards; be

fore.

Gi-moo'i. Behind; or last in rank or place; backwards. Gi-moo'li. Abroad; in a distant country.

Gi-oo'ta. On shore; inland.

Gi-tooa. Outside; out; without.

Gi-tow mooli. Abaft; astern.

Gía. The gorge or throat; the neck.

Naw gía. To strangle.

Gifé. Where.

Gigihi. To argue obstinately or contradictorily; to clash;

to contradict.

Gihé. There; in that place; thither.

Gíhéma. To the left hand; on the left hand or side.

Gihéna. There; in that place; thither.

Gíli. Bark of a tree; paring; skin, husk, or hull; hide or skin of an animal, living or dead.

A file. A saw.

Gilichi. To file; filings.

Gíloo. A million.

Gi-mato'w. To the right hand.

Gimo'coa. Both; the dual number of the pronoun mo. Gimo'to'loo. Ye; you; your; (used only when three or more persons are signified.)

Gimo'wooa. We two; both of us; our; (the dual number of mow, used only when the person spoken to is not included.)

Gimówtoloo. Us; our; (used only when the person spoken

to is not included, and when three or more are meant.) Gino'wooa. They; them; their; (when only two are sig nified; vide ginowto'luo,) both of them.

Ginowoo'a-be. Themselves; their own; (when two only are signified), vide ginowto' loo-be.

Ginowto'loo. They; them; their; (when three or more are siguified), vide gino'wooa.

Ginowto/loo-be. Themselves; their own; (when three or more are signified), vide gino'wooa-be.

Gioo. A crane; (a bird)..

Gíta. The pronoun I, (used in answer to a question, or after a verb).

Tetanus, trismus. Spasms; convulsions.

Gi'te. To view at a distance, as the land when at distance; to appear; to view.

Gi-too'a. Behind; at the back of.

Gitowtoloo. We.

Gnáco. Blubber; fat; grease.

Pánignáco. Greasy; to rub with grease.

Gnacolw. The plural of teców, a score; used only in count

ing out yams and fish.

Gnáców. The inside; viscera; bowels.

Gnáfi-gnafi. A mat.

Gnáhi. To make; to fashion.

Gnáhi cóvi.

Gnáhi-géhe. To alter.

Maltreatment.

Gnahólo. Fleetness; swiftness; fast sailing.

Gnahów. A war arrow.

Gnálo. To disappear; to forget.

Gnáloo. A billow; surf; surge.

Gnáno. Red-faced; flushed; sun-burnt; blowzy.
Gnagnów. Headache.

Gnaooä. A kind of cutaneous eruption, much resembling

the itch, (psora,) but confined generally to the soles of the feet, and between the toes, and supposed to arise from not washing the feet sufficiently before going to bed, particularly after walking in clayey places; it sometimes appears on the hands; is not contagious.

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Gnaoóë. Employment; work; also motion.

Fa gnäoóë. Diligent.

Gnata'. Difficult.

Ca'ca gnata'. To climb; (i. e. to get up with difficulty.)

Mow gnata.

Scarce.

Gna'too. The substance used for clothing, prepared from the bark of the Chinese paper mulberry tree, and imprinted before it is imprinted, it is called talpa.

Gnáw-gnaw. A great cowardly fellow that does nothing but talk; a braggadocio.

Gnedji. Hull; husk; pod; a shell. Gnedji nioo, cocoanut shells.

Gnéle. A baboon; a monkey.

Gnigníla. Bright; polished; brilliant.

Gnofoóa. Easy; easily; plain; evident; unprohibited; not forbidden; not tabooed.

Gnóngo. A seagull.

Gnóooe. To till the land; agricultural work.

Tai gno'ooeía. Uncultivated.

Gnoótoo. Mouth of any animal; beak of a bird.

Gnoótoo hoóa. Droll in speech.

Gnoótoólow. Loquacity; garrulity; talkative; loquacious. Gnow-áfi. A firebrand; a firestick.

Goo. The sign of the second person singular of the present tense; good, being changed into goo. (See gooa.) Goóa. The sign of the present tense; in the second person singular, it makes goo.

Goóa-loa. Heretofore; formerly; a long time ago.
Goói. Blind; blindness.

Goóli. A dog.

Goóli fafi'ne. A bitch.

Goo'lo. A cauldron; a kettle.

Goo'má. A mouse; a rat.

Goomála. The sweet potatoe.

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