lā.ʻiki
vs. Tight, as a dress; painfully stuffed, as the stomach after overeating; narrow, as a gate opening (contraction of lāʻā, wide, and iki, small). Lima lāʻiki, long, narrow sleeve.
vs. Tight, as a dress; painfully stuffed, as the stomach after overeating; narrow, as a gate opening (contraction of lāʻā, wide, and iki, small). Lima lāʻiki, long, narrow sleeve.
n. Litchi. Eng.
kikino Rice. Dic. Also lāisi. Laiki keʻokeʻo. White rice. Also lāisi keʻokeʻo. Laiki mākuʻe. Brown rice. Also lāisi mākuʻe. Laiki mōchī. Mochi rice. Also lāisi mōchī. Pōpō laiki. Rice ball, musubi. Also pōpō lāisi, musubī.
kikino Lychee, litchi. Dic.
v. To cram; to stuff; to throw together confusedly; to eat too much; to be full, as an over-loaded stomach.
s. Fullness, as of the stomach from over-eating; ua laiki ka opu.
adj. Full, as the stomach from eating too much.
s. Hawaiian orthography for raisi. Eng. Rice; a vegetable; a species of grain.
s. Rice, &c.
[Hawaiian orthography for raisi. (Eng.)] Rice; a species of grain.
1. To be tight; to fit too close.
2. To be full, as an overloaded stomach; to be oppressed with a sensation of fullness from food or gas.
Fullness, as of the stomach from over-eating; ua laiki ka opu.
Full, as the stomach from eating too much.
Place, Kai-lua, Oʻahu, the site of the country home of Arthur H. Rice built in about 1915. Mr. Rice planted ironwood trees as a windbreak and coconut palms as a copra plantation (some ironwoods and coconuts still remain). When the plantation failed he raised cattle here and at Mō-kapu. After his death in the 1950s, his home was demolished and the land subdivided. Lit., Rice.
Rice.
Rice.
Litchi (Litchi chinensis), an introduced member of the soap-berry family, is a fruit with a hard, scaly covering containing a large hard seed. Flesh is white, watery, transparent, and a popular food item in Hawaiʻi. (NEAL 534.)
Rice (Oryza sativa) (NEAL 69.) See Plants: Uses.
Rice (Oryza sativa), one of six tropical species in the genus of rather tall annual and perennial swamp grasses. It is the chief food of more than half the worldʻs people. Besides food, rice grains provide fermented liquor, a nondrying oil, and a laundry starch. Its straw supplies hats and shoes. (NEAL 69.)
rice.
E huli iā “lāʻiki” ma Ulukau.
Search for “lāʻiki” on Ulukau.