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1. vt. To scatter, throw, as ashes; to sow, broadcast; to shed, as a chicken its feathers or a tree its leaves; to push aside; to drip, as water; to shake; to cast off, as grief; to spend recklessly, squander, discard. Pau ke kālā i ka lū ʻia, all the money was squandered. (PPN ruu.)

2. n. Seeds of the pua kala, prickly poppy.

3. n. Gunshot, so called because the pellets suggested the lū seeds.

4. n. Scalloped hat braid, as made of bamboo, sugar-cane stem, pandanus, or coconut.

See pakuhi lū.

v. To scatter; to throw away small things, as ashes or sand. Puk. 9:8. To drip, as water. Laieik. 80.

2. To sow, as grain

3. To shake; to kick or remove dust from one's feet.

4. To dive or plunge in the water. 2 Nal. 5:14. To dive, as in taking a squid.

s. That which is thrown away or scattered.

2. That which is shot from a gun; hence, gun shot, from their scattering.

3. The small seeds of the puakala.

4. A kind of medicine; the same as kuakala; small seeds beaten up and mixed with some liquid for a purgative; the real name of the plant is naule.

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Lu (lū), n.

/ lū / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. That which is thrown away or scattered.

2. That which is shot from a gun; hence, gun shot, from their scattering.

3. The small seeds of the puakala.

Lu (lu), v.

/ lu / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To scater; to throw away small things, as ashes or sand. (Puk. 9:8.)

2. To drip, as water. (Laieik. p, 80.)

3. To sow, as grain.

4. To shake; to kick or remove dust from one's feet.

5. To dive or plunge in the water: to dive, as in taking a squid.

Small seeds of the maula plant, beaten into a juice and used as a purgative. See pua-kala.

To scatter.

that thrown away or scattered: to scatter, sow; to shake.

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