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Var. spelling of koali.

v. To swing to and fro, as a rope for children to jump over.

s. A kind of play for children; swinging a rope. There were two kinds of kowali.

2. Name of a certain stick or buoy on which to float a fish-hook.

3. The name of a running vine; a convolvulus; also written koali.

1. A child's game of swinging a rope. (There were two kinds.)

2. A certain stick or buoy on which to float or hang a fish hook.

3. A stout trailing plant, a variety of convolvulus (Ipomoea insularis) common in the lower woods of the Hawaiian islands. Also known as kowali awahia.

1. To swing to and fro, as a rope for children to jump over.

2. [Ko, draw, and wali, mixed.]

1. To mix, to stir by using a drawing or rotary motion.

3. To mix very thoroughly; to stir until the component parts of any mixture are united in one consistent mass.

convolvulus. Land section, Hana, Maui.

Stick or buoy for floating a fishhook; the morning glory vine.

Morning-glory (Ipomoea, spp.), generally herbs with twining stems and erect shrubs; the convulvus plant. Used as a cathartic for wounds, fractures, and injections. (NEAL 703.)

Morning glory vine (Ipomoea spp.), a tough perennial, bitter to the taste. Pounded stems and roots are used to relieve pains and aches. It may be too strong as a cathartic. Hawaiian legends speak of the use of the vine as a rope. The vines were used for kōkō (nets) and lele koali (swings). (NEAL 703.)

Morning glory vine (Ipomoea spp.). It numbers nearly twenty species in Hawaiʻi in both annual and perennial forms, some of which, including the sweet potato, have swollen roots. The name of the genus, Ipomoea, refers to their twining habits. (NEAL 703.)

to swing to and fro, as skipping rope.