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o'o)--a reptile; a dragon; a mythologic monster (p. 260). _Muumuu_ (mu'u-mu'u)--an under garment worn by women; a shift; a chemise; a person maimed of hand or foot; the name of a hula (p. 212). _Naulu_ (nau-lu)--name of the seabreeze at Waimea, Kauai. _Ua naulu_ = a heavy local rain (pp. 110, 112). _Noa_ (no-a)--ceremonially free; unrestrained by tabu (p. 126). _Noni_ (no-ni)--a dye-plant (Morinda citrifolia) whose fruit was sometimes eaten. _Nuuanu_ (Nu'u-a-nu) a valley back of Honolulu that leads to the "Pali." _Ohe_ (o-he)--bamboo; a flute; a variety of the hula (pp. 135, 145). _Ohelo_ (o-he-lo)--an edible berry that grows at high altitudes; to reach out; to stretch; a variety of the hula (p. 233). _Ohia_ (o-hi'a)--a name in some places applied to the _lehua_ (q. v.), more generally the name of a fruit tree, the "mountain apple" (Eugenia malaccensis). _Olapa_ (o-la-pa)--those members of a hula company who moved in the dance, as distinguished from the _hoopaa_, q. v., who sat and cantillated or played on some instrument (p. 28). _Oli_ (o-li)--a song; a lyric; to sing or chant (p. 254). _Olioli_--Joyful. _Olohe_ (o-lo-he)--an expert in the hula; one who has passed the _ailolo_ test and has also had much experience (p. 32). _Oo_ (o-o)--a spade; an agricultural implement, patterned after the whale spade (p. 85); a blackbird, one of those that furnished the golden-yellow feathers for the _ahuula_, or feather cloak. _Paepae_ (pae-pae)--a prop; a support; the assistant to the _po'o-pua'a_ (p. 29). _Pahu_ (pa-hu)--a box; a drum; a landmark; to thrust, said of a spear (pp. 103, 138). _Pale_ (pa-le)--a division; a canto of a mele; a division of the song service in a hula performance (pp. 58, 89). _Pali_ (pa-li)--a precipice; a mountain wall cut up with steep ravines. (Mele on pp. 51-53, verses 4, 5, 8, 16, 17, 27, 49.) _Papa_ (pa-pa)--a board; the plane of the earth's surface; a mythological character, the wife of Wakea. _Pa-u_ (pa-u)--a skirt; a garment worn by women reaching from the waist to about the knees (p. 50). The dress of the hula performer (p. 49), Oli Pa-u (p. 51). _Pele_ (Pe-le)--the goddess of the volcano and of volcanoes generally, who held court at the crater of Kilauea, on Hawaii; a variety of the hula (p. 186). _Pikai_ (pi-kai)--to asperse with seawater mixed, perhaps, with turmeric, etc., as in ceremonial cleansing (p. 31). _Poo-puaa_ (po'o-pu-a'a)--Boar's he
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