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v. The compound, frequentative, poetical form of alawa; to look frequently one way and the other, as in fear of being seen; alaalawa ka maka o ka aihue, alaalawa na maka me he pueo la, the eyes of the thief look this way and that, they look here and there like an owl.

alaalawa

/ ă'-lă-ă-lă'-wă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

(The compound, frequentative, poetical form of alawa.) v., To look frequently one way and the other, as in fear of being seen: Alaalawa ka maka o ka aihue, alaalawa na maka me he pueo la; the eyes of the thief look this way and that, they look here and there like an owl.

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