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KUI KʽUI
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Compasses; a rule; custom; to rule; regulate; to play.
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To spy; look; peep out of a cavern.
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To peep out at a door; to spy; observe narrowly.
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To return; go back; to attach one's self to; to send back.
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Spirit of a dead man; ghost; demon; devil.
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Great; excellent; extraordinary; strange.
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Disquietude of mind; stupidity of sickness.
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Opposing currents clashing; in disorder; enraged.
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To glance hastily; a dull eye; without a pupil.
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Name of a vegetable; a clod of earth; utensil made of straw.
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Food; to prepare food; to offer it to superiors; to present to.
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To kneel as in worship.
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Name of a medicine; the laurus cassia.
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The last of the ten astronomical characters in the cycle.
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Young; small; slender; the last of a series.
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Lofty; noble; costly; desirable valuable.

Kʽui.

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To lift up the garments when fording water.
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To walk fast; speedy motion; stumble; to step.
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To guess; conjecture; to examine; conclude.
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In opposition to; over against; distant.
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To stare; look with displeasure; cast down.
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The malva or mallows; a variety of the hibiscus.
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A majestic horse; strong; violent; indefatigable.
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The cheek or jaw bones; a road diverging in nine direction.
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Failure; deficiency; diminution; to injure; give trouble.
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To open; unfold; spread open.
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Traitorous plots formed by external banditti.
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The rut of a wheel; a law; rule.
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To reprimand; to deceive; impose upon; perverse.
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A dial; a gnomon to show the sun's declination.
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A square vessel to contain grain used in sacrifice.
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Shame; ashamed; abashen.