ume
n. Same as kala, a fish. (PPN ʻume.)
ʻume
1. nvt. To draw, pull, attract, entice; attractive, alluring; attraction. (Mele 1.4.) ʻUme i ka ihu, to pull on the nose, as with a handkerchief or with the fingers, causing the nose to discharge, said of one who weeps in sorrow. Pahu ʻume, drawer, bureau. (PEP kume)
2. nvt. A sexual game for commoners, the counterpart of kilu, the chiefs' game. (Malo chapter 41.) It was called ʻume, to draw, because players of opposite sex were drawn to one another. To pair off in the game. Mea ʻume, anohale, master of ceremonies in the game of ʻume. Ua ʻume ʻia aʻe nei kāua e ka mea ʻume o ka ʻaha leʻaleʻa (Laie 483), we hav been paired off by the master of ceremonies of this merry throng.
3. nvt. Fermata in music, hold, pause; to lengthen, as a sound.
4. An overlaid or braided thatching used on corners and ridges of a house. (AP)
ʻume
kikino Drawer. Dic., ext. mng. See pahu ʻume.
ʻume
kikino Fermata, i.e. the symbol placed over a note, chord, or rest indicating the extension of duration longer than the indicated time value, in music. Dic.
U-ME
v. To pull; to pull after one; to draw out, as a drawer of a bureau.
2. To lengthen, as a sound.
3. FIG. To incline one to go after another. Mel. Sol. 1:4.
U-ME
s. A drawing out; a pulling; a lengthening out, as a sound.
2. A name given to the character hold in music.
3. A kind of a lascivious play in the night; he lealea o ka ume i ka po.
4. The grass and thatching on the corners and ridges of a house.
U-ME
adj. Mea ume, something drawing; attractive. FIG. Mea ume, the mistress of a lover; hele aku o Hauiliki a i ka mea ume. Laieik. 114. See No. 3 of the preceding.
Ume (u'-me), adj.
1. Attractive; alluring: mea ume, the alluring mistress (of a lover).
2. Magnetic; drawing: mea ume, something that draws, like a lodestone.
3. Pertaining to the game of ume.
Ume (u'-me), n.
1. A drawing out; a pulling; a drawer.
2. A popular sport of the ancient Hawaiians. (D. Malo, Hawaiian Antiquities, p. 281)
3. A special kind of overlaid or braided thatching used on the corners and ridges of a house.
4. A character indicating a musical tone.
Ume (u'-me), v.
1. To pull; to pull after one; to draw out, as a drawer of a bureau.
2. To lengthen, as a sound.
3. Fig. To be drawn away from or toward an object; to restrain or impel by some occult or secret energy.
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