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nvs., Any dark color, including the deep blue of the sea, the ordinary green of vegetation, and the dark of black clouds; the black-and-blue of a bruise. Some song composers avoid this word because connotations of evil or misfortune are associated with darkness and because Uli is a goddess of sorcery (see uli #2).

• Examples:
  • Uli māhole ka ʻili (song), the skin is bruised black-and-blue.
• Related:
  • Also: uliuli.
  • Kai uli, the deep blue sea.
  • Nuku uli, dark lips.
  • Nā pali uli, the green cliffs.
  • Uli ka maka, a black eye.
  • hoʻouli Caus/sim.; To darken, to make blue, green, etc.; to make the skin black and blue; to bruise.
• References:
  • PPN ʻuli.

2. (Cap.) n., Name of a goddess of sorcery, said to have come from Kahiki.

• Examples:
  • E Uli ē, ē Uli nānā pono, ē Uli nānā hewa, ē Uli i uka, ē Uli i kai (prayer), O Uli, O Uli observe good, O Uli observe evil, O Uli inland, O Uli seaward.
  • ʻO ʻoe kā ia, ē ka lāuli pali o Uli (chant by Hiʻiaka), it is you then, O cliff darkness of Uli.
• References:
  • See HM 574, PH 144–7.

3. n., Early stage in the development of a foetus, as the body begins to form.

4. n., Name given by Malo for subjects of the chief; Emerson says they are black-haired persons.

• References:
  • Malo 194, 201.

5. nvt., To steer; steersman.

• Examples:
  • Uli hou ʻo ʻIwa (For. 5:287), ʻIwa again steered.
• References:
  • PPN ʻuli.

6. n., Short for ʻōuli, omen.

• Examples:
  • ʻO ka nānā uli, ʻo ka nānā ʻana nō ia i nā uli o ke kanaka, inā he kanaka waiwai, a inā he kanaka ʻilihune (For. 6:85), the study of omens, is a study of the omens regarding a person, whether [he will become] a person of wealth or a poor person.

7. n., Crowing of a cock.

• Rare

8. n., Type of sweet potato (no data).

• References:
  • For. 5:664–5.

adj., Blue; cerulean blue; green, as a meadow; whatever is green among vegetables. Puk. 9:22. Pertaining to a dark or dusty color; uli ka wai o ka niu.

s., The blue sky; ka poe nana uli o ke alii, the foretellers of the weather. Laieik. 36.

s., The name of a god to which a prayer was addressed in the pule anaana.

s., A canoe steerer for the king's canoes; one of the king's special servants.

v., To steer a canoe or ship. See hoeuli.

v., To gurgle; to make such a noise as when water is poured out of a calabash or a cocoanut; e neneke; uli ka wai o ka niu.

1. s., Name of a species of kalo.

2. Name of a species of fan leaf cocoanut; ka uli, ka loulu, ka hawane.

s., The personal appearance or fitness of a person for any duty; applied particularly to runners as they appeared to the poe kilokilo; e nana no ka poe nana uli, e like me ke kukini.

1. adj., Blue; cerulean blue; green, as a meadow; whatever is green among vegetables.

2. adj., Pertaining to a dark or dusky color.

v., To steer a canoe or ship.

n., Noise like that caused by the vibration of the contents of a coconut when, shaken; e neneke; uli ka wai o ka niu.

1. n., Any dark hue.

2. n., The firmament; the blue sky: ka poe nana uli o ke alii, the foretellers of the weather. Laieik. p.36.

3. n., A class of gods worshiped by sorcerers and medicine-men. Prayers were addressed to these gods both for protection from harm and for the destruction of an enemy.

4. n., One in charge of a canoe; a steersman; captain of canoes; one of the king's special servants.

5. n., A variety of dark or brown taro.

6. n., A species of native palm. Also called loulu and hawane.

To steer, as a canoe; special servant of the king, his canoe steersman.

Blue or black.

Name of a god to which a prayer was addressed in the pule ʻanāanā. (A.) Goddess of sorcery, said to have come from Kahiki. (PE.)

Coconut fan leaf palm. See loulu.

One of the kingʻs special servants, a steersman for his canoes.

blue, as sky; green, as meadow; dark blue: to steer.