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n., Runner on sweet potato vine; string of fish, string or fiber of any kind on which fish are strung.

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  • Also: kālī.

1. v., To snatch; to take away; to take by force; to take away, as one's pleasure and joy. Ioan. 16:22. To take away one's right. Kin. 31:31. To spoil or rob one's glory. Kol. 2:15.

2. To give up; to depart, as the spirit of a dying person; kaili ke aho, to catch for the breath. See AILI. To breathe the last. Kin. 35:18.

s., Name of a fish net from its use, to take away.

adj., Waiwai kaili, spoil. Ezek. 7:21. Manu kaili wale, a ravenous bird. Ezek. 39:4.

s., He mea kaili, extortion; a taking by force.

s., The act of taking fish with a hook. See aili.

s., The name of the great feather god of Kamehameha.

adj., Plundered; a word used to describe seized property: Waiwai kaili; plundered property.

1. n., Mode of fishing with hook and line, without rod, called kaili from the twitching or hasty snatching in taking the fish.

2. n., Act of taking fish by this method.

3. n., The great feather god of Kamehameha; also called Kukailimoku.

1. n., Name of a fish net from its use, to take away.

2. n., Extortion; a taking by force: he mea kaili.

1. v., To snatch; to take away; to take by force.

2. v., To take away, as one's pleasure and joy; to take away one's right; to spoil or rob one's glory.

3. v., To take all.

4. v., To labor for breath; to breathe as it were by snatches