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1. (loc.n.) The name of the country of China .

1. (n.) Lit. Chinese gonorrhoea. A venereal disease brought from Makatea by the labourers; eyebrows fall out, can't urinate. Mangaians have a medicine for this, but hospital now also has western medicine .

1. (n.) The chinese centipede a variety of millipede .

1. (n.) A variety of chestnut resembling the Tahitian chestnut .

1. (n.) Centipede. ‘E veri tēra‘o e totoro mat ra, ‘akara ka katia koe. There is a centipede over there, watch out or it will bite you; Teia te punua veri, ka kiriti taua i te ni ‘o. Here is a young centipede, let’s re¬move its sting. Veri ‘enua, a small greenish type. Veri tinito, a small, brown millipede that gives off a smell when touched. [Pn. *weli.] .

1. (n.) Powder: gunpowder, dynamite, (ignitable) head (of match), firework. Paura tinito, face powder. Kua kōmirimiri 'aia i te one kia 'unga'unga mei te paura. He crumbled the (clod of) earth till it was fine as powder; Kua 'aruru te paura. The powder exploded; Kua mā'ū te paura o te māti i kore ei e kā. The head of the match is wet so it won't light; Kua tutungi 'aia i te paura. He lit the firework; Te paura i runga i tōna pāpāringa, The powder on her cheeks. Paura pēpe, Baby powder. [Eng. powder.] .

1. (n.) Rice. Ā te Tinito rāi koe i te kai raiti. You are just like a Chinese, the way you eat rice all the time; Ē varu ēnā Punu raiti. That’s eight pounds of rice you’ve got there. [Eng. Rice.].