This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...by drawing up shoulders and drawing down the head. Eerelumagav, the youths of a place. Reremera, boys, re, meray but also a boy, plural in form, singular in meaning; see raveve. Rerena, the yolk of an egg; from yellow colour; Sam. lega. Rereosa, slender. Rerere, to tremble, shake, with fear; redupl. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...by drawing up shoulders and drawing down the head. Eerelumagav, the youths of a place. Reremera, boys, re, meray but also a boy, plural in form, singular in meaning; see raveve. Rerena, the yolk of an egg; from yellow colour; Sam. lega. Rereosa, slender. Rerere, to tremble, shake, with fear; redupl. rere 1. vara rerere, stagger; sur-rere, quaking of bones, fear. tarerere, unsteady. Reret, to reach out, stretch out the arm after something. valago rereret, run to catch, touch. Rerevag, to carry away, make to drift, of wind and tide; to drift; rere 2. Sam. lelea. Rerevanvanoi, the set of mothers' brothers whom children in a village look to. Rereve, to fish for flying-fish; probably rave 2. Rereveag, reve to go a long way round. Besa, 1. variegated in stripes of colour; o resa, a pig red and black in stripes. 2. a fish, bodian, pristipoma. Betamai, the set of fathers in a place; o retamtamai; re. Ret, at the edge, extremity; nug nug ret. tano retret, to touch at the extreme edge; o maue gire ape ulusui retret, the mauai of the pandanus are at. the ends of the branches all round the tree. Retawu, strangers visiting or resident in a place. Reug, a bird, in V.L. Reve, 1. long, extended, to be drawn out; mauareve, of a tree with long tips to the branches. o lama we reve nan Ho vanna, the sea runs in places into the land; o vanua we reve rowo ilo lama, the land runs out into the sea; we reve goro, stretches out so as to hide another point. reve ae motmot, when trees, rocks, &c, are drawn out in rapid succession as a canoe passes swiftly by; nua reve, nuurevereve. 2. used in songs for rave; being the same word. Revo, a kind of yam. Beworewo, a variety of ficus, banyan. Rewu, 1. a hole dug at the foot of a cocoa-nut tree to catch water; the...
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