pou 1. a block of wood, a log, hadi pou. pou 
ni ‘eit, U. Maori pou, Samoa pow, post. 
pou 2. v. i., to become hard, firm in consist- 
ency, to set, to congeal (of liquids), to 
heal over (of sores), to be solid (of 
waves); susu pou, to run high without 
breaking (of waves). 
pouhiru‘e adj., raging sea; sasa‘ae e pouhiru'e, 
a raging sea is stirred up. 
poulolo U., n., the cross-beams of a house. 
poupou 1. a green coconut. Wango poupou, 
fruit, poupou kua, hen’s egg. 
poupou (ku) 2. U., poupou ni ‘ae‘ae, poupou 
ni uli, heel. Wango poupou. 
po‘upo‘u 3. crossed sticks, a cross; rapu 
lakoma‘i pe‘t po'upo‘u, to crucify. 
po‘uru‘uru S., qo‘uru‘uru U., v. i., to kneel 
down, to stoop, to bend down. ‘uru‘urz. 
po‘uru‘urunge v. n. Wango bouru. 
pue S., pua U., areca nut, hot pue, hou pua; 
hungutant pua, a bunch of nuts; 
maholota ni pua, a piece of areca; méhiri, 
to be intoxicated from eating areca; 
hou meme, the quid of areca, betel and 
lime; hoi meuta‘a, a hard ripe areca nut; 
mota, S., pet, U., a mortar for pounding 
areca nut; oka, dému, to chew areca; 
pile, a young nut just edible. Borneo 
bua, fruit; pue is probably connected 
with hue 1. M.L., p. 71. 
pule 1. n., a young girl; a pulena, the girl; 
pulena, vocative, you girl; kele pule ineu, 
my little girl. 
pule 2. to be dropsical; ‘ae pule, dropsical 
swelling of the leg. Mota pura. 
puli 1. a cowrie shell; pul ‘ehi‘e, orange cowrie; 
oa nt puli, a pair of cowries; talai puli, a 
string of cowries for the forehead. 
Samoa, Niué pule, Viti mbuli. 
puli 2. v. i., to crowd, to throng. ha‘apuli. 
puli Ghu‘i, to throng round; ruru puli, 
U., to gather in a crowd. 
pulitaa U., v. n., a crowd, a throng, a mob, 
a company. 
pulo 1. v.i., toturn back, toreturn. ha‘apulo. 
melu pulo i ola, we only reached such- 
and-such a place; pulo sa‘asala ana, 
came short of it, failed to reach; 
ta‘ipulopulo, to come short of. 
pulosi tr., to turn about, to turn over, to 
twist. Wango buro, Florida pulo. 
pulo 2. n., a bowstring, pulo ni pesi. 
puloki (English bullock) susu ni puloki, cow's 
milk. 
pulongo S., v. i., to forget, to be forgetful. 
pulongosi tr. 
pulongota‘ini tr., Qaloto. Wango buron- 
gost. 
pulopulo to‘o pulopulo, specked. 
pulu 1. to be black; pulu nunu‘e, stained; hau 
pulu, volcanic rock; kuka pulu, a mud 
crab; poo pulu, a black pig; rodohono 
pupulu, pitch dark. 
pulu 2. gall, used in witchcraft to cause sleep 
to enemies; dere pulu haahi, to throw 
gall over them. 
PURA 
pulu 3. pitch, gum, native cement; a nut, saie 
(Parinarium laurinum) is scraped on 
rough coral rock and darkened in color 
by a mixture of charcoal (Jo‘ilohi) and 
the juice of o‘a, the cement hardens 
almost immediately; pulu maai seu, 
circular pieces of shell used in inlaying; 
soo pulu, to gather cement nuts. 
pulu‘i v. tr., to calk with native cement. 
Mota pulu, Polynesian pulu. 
Pululaha a district on Little Malaita at the 
west entrance to Mara Masiki Channel. 
pulupulu n., a firefly; it is regarded as the soul 
of a dead person and is killed when it 
comes into a house. maaku e takara 
pulupulu, my eyes saw stars. Wango 
buruburu. 
pulupulu‘e adj., black; natives as distinguished 
from white people. mwala pulupulu‘e. 
punipuni v. i., to smear the face with juice of 
areca nut when chewing, to smear the 
body with lime, to decorate the body 
with strong-smelling herbs. San Cris- 
toval buni, Maori pani, to paint. 
pungu 1. to be deaf; a pungu, the deaf person. 
Wango bungu. 
pungu 2. a bunch; pungui aleale, a bunch of 
dyed aleale tied on a comb for decora- 
tion or hung on the bows of a canoe; 
pungui nume, a cluster of houses; aw 
pungu, a large strong bamboo. 
pupungu v. i., to cluster in a bunch. ¢f. 
hungu. Florida punguti, to cluster 
round. 
pu‘o 1. to be ignorant, to be heathen (late use), 
to have none; ‘o manata‘inie hoi niu? 
nou pu‘o, have you a coconut? I have 
not; tola mala pz‘o, to behave like a 
heathen. 
pu‘onga v. n., ignorance, heathenism. 
pu‘ota‘i v. i., to forget; noko pu‘ota’i ulo 
‘oto, I forget to cry. 
pu‘ota‘ini tr., to be ignorant of, not to have; 
moro ko pu‘ota‘inie erenga hé‘iliu, you 
do not know one another’s speech. 
pu‘o 2. v.i., toreturn, tocome back. ha‘apu'‘o. 
pu‘o, pu‘opu‘o 3. v.i., to revolve, to turn round; 
héu pu‘opu‘o, a grindstone. 
pu‘osi, pu‘opu‘osi tr. 
pupu 1. to rest assured; saeku e pupu ‘oto ana, 
I rest assured of it; pupu to‘o, to rely; 
used with poss. 3, to rely on. 
pupu 2. ta‘ipupu‘e, tangled. 
pupu 3. U., hoi pupu, the Southern Cross con- 
stellation. 
pupulu pulu 1; rodohono pupulu, pitch dark; 
‘ala pupulu haahi, to surround in a 
dense body. 
pupulue‘i v. tr., to darken the mind, to 
vex; e pupulue'ie saena, his mind was 
disturbed. 
pupungula U., adj., marked with a rash. 
pupupu to be whole, intact, safe, 2‘0 pupupu. 
Wango bubu, Florida mabubu. 
pupupu‘e adj., whole, entire; hele pupupu'e, 
keep intact. 
pupute S., puputa U., a bundle, a sheaf. 
pura U., pule S., to be dropsical. 
