rict on the island of Hawaii.

_Kawele_ (ka-we-le)--a manner of cantillating in a distinct and natural
tone of voice; about the same as _ko'i-honua_ (p. 58).

_Kihei_ (ki-hei)--a robe of kapa worn after the fashion of the Roman
toga.

_Kii_ (ki'i)--to fetch, to go after a thing; an image, a picture, a
marionette; a Tariety of the hula (p. 91).

_Kilauea_ (Ki-lau-e-a)--the great active volcano of Hawaii.

_Kini_ (ki-ni)--the number 40,000; a countless number. _Kini Akua_, a
host of active, often mischievous, "little" folk in human form that
peopled the deep woods. They resembled our elves and brownies, and were
esteemed as having godlike powers (p. 21, note; p. 24).

_Kilu_ (ki-lu)--a dish made by cutting off obliquely the top of a
coconut or small gourd, which was used as a sort of top in the game and
dance called _kilu_. (Hula kilu, p. 235.)

_Ko_--sugar-cane; performed, accomplished. With the causative prefix
_ho'o_, as in _ho'oko_ (ho'o-ko), to accomplish, to carry to success (p.
30).

_Ko'i_ (ko'i)--an ax, an adz; originally a stone implement. (See mele
beginning _Ko'i maka nui_, p. 228.)

_Ko'i honua_ (ko'i ho-nu-a)--a compound of the causative _ko_, _i_, to
utter, and _honua_, the earth; to recite or cantillate in a quiet
distinct tone, in distinction from the stilted bombastic manner termed
ai-ha'a (p. 58).

_Kokua-kumu_, (ko-ku-a-ku-mu)--the assistant or deputy who took charge
of the halau in the absence of the _kumu-hula_, (p. 29).

_Kolea_ (ko-le-a)--the plover; the name of a hula (p. 219).

_Kolohe_ (ko-lo-he)--mischievous; restless; lawless (note d, p. 194).

_Kona_, (Kona)--a southerly wind or storm; a district on the leeward
side of many of the islands.

_Koolau_ (Ko'o-lau)--leaf-compeller; the windward side of an island; the
name of a wind. (_A Koolau wau, ike i ka ua_, verse 1, p. 59.)

_Ku_--to stand; to rise up; to fit; a division of land; one of the four
major gods who had many functions, such as Ku-pulupulu, Ku-mokuhalii,
Ku-kaili-moku, etc. (Mele, _Ku e, nana e!_ p. 223.)

_Kuahu_ (ku-a-hu)--an altar; a rustic stand constructed in the halau in
honor of the hula gods (p. 15).

_Kuhai-moana_ (Ku-hai-mo-a-na)--a shark-god (pp. 76, 77).

_Ku'i_ (ku'i)--to smite; to beat; the name of a hula (p. 250).

_Kukui_ (ku-ku-i)--a tree (Aleurites moluccana) from the nuts of which
were made torches; a torch. (_Mahana lua na kukui a Lanikaula_, p. 130,
note c.)

_Kumu-hula_ (ku-mu hula)--a