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2
Lame; leaning on one side.
-3
To hold in the arms; infold; embrace.
4
Feces or dregs of wine or other liquors.

Poi.

-4
To pull out; eradicate; draw forth.
4
Eight.

Pʽoi.

1
To strike; to compare; decide and declare officially; a petition; the reply; to pare off.

Pⁿio.

-2
A flat board; a board on which lists are made.
3
Blasted grain; tares; small; minute.
3
Tares; weeds similar to grain.
3
To adjust; judge; decide; punish.

Pok.

-4
A servant; slave; to follow; comply.

Pʽok.

4
To divine by means of a tortoise shell; to prognosticate; conjecture.
4
Lying down; prostate; bowing the head to the ground.
4
A slight stroke; to strike; to flog.
4
The bark of a tree; great; fundamentals; separate.
4
Luxuriant herbage; a case in which reeds are stuck.
4
To lean towards; to fall; to pat; strike; flog.
4
Plain, hard, close wood; substantial; without ornament.
4
An unpolished gem; the external covering of a gem.

Pong.

𥭗-1
A mat covering for a boat; a utensil for straining liquor.
-1
A mat for a boat cover, sail, tent &c.
-1
Name of an edible plant; luxuriant; in disorder.
-1
To sew; to unite by a seam; a seam; fissure; cleft.
-1
Hair complicated and in disorder.
2
To take up in the palm of the hands, as water.

Pu.

-1
A kind of melon or pumpkin.
1
From 3 to 5 o'clock P.M.
1
To take; pursue and seize; to catch; to persecute.
1
Disease; an internal gathering or induration.
1
To abscond; run away; fugitive; in debt.