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Tea
1. Light, fair, whitish. 2. To rise (of
the moon, the stars); ku-tea-á te hetu'u ahiahi,
the evening star has risen.
1. To shine, be bright, brilliant,
white; tea niho, enamel of the teeth; ata tea,
dawn; teatea, white, blond, pale, colorless,
invalid; rauoho teatea, red hair; hakateatea,
to blanch, to bleach. P Pau.: faatea, to clear,
to brighten. Mgv.: tea, white, blanched, pale.
Mq.: tea, white, clear, pure, limpid. Ta.: tea,
white, brilliant. 2. Proud, vain, haughty, arrogance, to
boast; tae tea, humble; teatea, arrogant,
bragging, pompous, ostentatious, to boast, to show off,
haughty; hakateatea, to show off. Mgv.:
akateatea, pride, vanity, ostentatious, to be puffed
up. Ta.: teoteo, boastful, proud, haughty. 3.
Mgv.: teatea, heavy rain. Ha.: kea, the
rain at Hana and Koolau.
1. White, clear; fair-complexioned
person, often favorites at court; shiny, white
mother-of-pearl shell, cfr. keakea, kekea,
Mauna Kea. Po'o kea, towhead, gray-haired
person. One kea, white sand (this is shortened to
ōkea or kea, as in the expression kea
pili mai, drift gravel - vagabond). (PPN tea).
2. Breast milk. See Nu'a-kea. 3. A variety of
sugar cane, among Hawaiians one of the best-known and
most-used canes, especially in medicine: clumps erect,
dense, of medium height; pith white. Ua ola ā 'ō kō
kea, living until kea cane tassels (until the
hair turns gray). 4. Name listed by Hillebrand for
kolomona (Mezoneuron kavaiense); see
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