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1. nvs., Deep blue-black, as a cavern, the sea, or dense forest; dim, distant; grief (see ex., haʻalipo).

• Examples:
  • Lipo lolohuamea, the dark depths [the unfathomable mystery of the gods].
• References:
  • See kumulipo.
  • Probably PPN lipo.

2. (Cap.) n., Name of a star in the southern skies, and hence sometimes the name for the southern sky.

s. A deep shady forest.

2. Deep water in the sea; moana lipo loa; hence

adj. Blue, black or dark from the depth of a cavern, or from the depth of the sea; deep; bottomless, as the ocean.

Blue, black or dark from the depth of a cavern, or from the depth of the sea; deep; bottomless, as the ocean.

Darkness; lack of clearness, said of the gloom of a forest or the obscurity of that which is deep, as deep water.