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hehele, To nest.

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v. See PUNANA, to sit on, as a nest. To sit like a fowl on eggs to hatch them.

2. To hatch eggs by warming them.

3. To brood or cherish, as a fowl her young.

4. To warm, as a person by the fire.

Hoopunana (ho'o-pū'-nă'-na), v.

/ ho'o-pū'-nă'-na / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Hoo and punana, to sit on, as a nest.]

1. To sit like a fowl on eggs to hatch them.

2. To hatch eggs by warming them.

3. To brood or cherish, as a fowl her young.

4. To warm, as a person by the fire.

5. To form a nest for; to settle one's self in a new place.

to make a nest.

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