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1. n., General name for destructive insects that eat wood, cloth, or plants; cane borer, weevil, tamarind borer, moth (Mat. 6.19); caterpillar in the cocoon stage; germ, bug.

• References:
  • PPN muu .

2. vs., Silent; to shut the lips and make no sound.

• Related:
  • hoʻomū Caus/sim.; To sit in silence, to refuse to answer; speechless.
• References:
  • PPN muhu .

3. vi., Gather together, of crowds of people.

• Examples:
  • Kahi e mū ʻia ana e nā kānaka, place where the people gathered.
• Related:
  • hoʻomū Caus/sim.; Same as above; multitude, crowd; to cause a gathering.
    • A pae aʻe i Kai-mū, hoʻomū nā kānaka (chant), landing at Kaimū, people gathered.
• References:
  • Cf. mui, mumulu.

4. n., A crab (Dynomene hispida).

5. (Cap.) n., Legendary people of Lāʻauhaelemai, Kauaʻi, often called Mū ʻai maiʻa, banana-eating Mu.

• References:
  • Cf. Nāmū, Nāwao.

6. n., Bigeye emperor fish (Monotaxis grandoculis 🌐), perhaps named for the Mū people.

• References:
  • PNP muu .

7. n., Public executioner; he procured victims for sacrifice and executed taboo breakers; children were frightened by being told that the mū would get them.

8. Variant name for the kōnane game.

• References:
  • See papamū.

9. n., Name of a small, yellow bird (no data).

10. n., The letter “m”.

kikino Checkers. Dic. Mū Pākē. Chinese checkers. Mū kākela. Chess.

v. To shut the lips and hold the mouth full of water. See MUMU.

2. To be silent; not to answer. See MUMULE.

s. A little black bug that eats most kinds of wood; it also eats through and through all kinds of clothing; he mea e popopo ai ka lole; a destroyer of many kinds of property. Mat. 6:19. The mu bores a hole about as large as a gimlet; a moth. Isa. 51:8.

2. The name of a man who lived in the country above Lauhaele and ate bananas.

3. Name of a small bird with yellow feathers; he mu kekahi manu, he lena kona hulu.

4. A person employed to procure human victims when a heiau was to be dedicated or a new house built.

1. A little black bug that eats most kinds of wood and all lands of clothing: he mea e popopo ai ka lole; a destroyer of many kinds of property; a moth.

2. An order that lived in the mountains above Lauhaele and subsisted on the banana. Also called namu.

3. A person employed to procure human victims when a heiau was to be dedicated or a new house built.

4. Small bird belonging to the class Loxops. Same as iwipolena.

5. A species of fish, called also mamamu and mamamo (Monotaxis grandoculis).

1. To shut the lips and hold the mouth full of water. Same as mumu.

2. [Contraction of mumule.] To be silent.