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 * Poised; set, established, fixed; upright; to rear, to found, to institute; to be settled in principle; to succeed to or to seat one's self on the throne in place of the legitimate heir; to appoint; to agree on; to settle terms, as when drawing up a contract; to fix; reached; arrived, as the seasons; to place in order, to arrange; just now, soon, presently, at the time of.
 * lîp ieh;
 * make a compact.


 * lîp khòi;
 * settle the terms of a contract; make a deed.


 * lîp phŏ;
 * open an account.


 * lîp tīaⁿ tîeh lío;
 * it is wholly settled upon.


 * chàng-lîp cṳ-īⁿ;
 * found a college.


 * lîp i cò̤ ûang;
 * made him king.


 * kĭen kong, lîp ngîap;
 * gain a position for one's self; get fame and wealth.


 * lîp ău sṳ̂;
 * adopt an heir.


 * íⁿ-keng nî tōa, sêng lîp lío;
 * already grown up and established in life.


 * ko lîp, bô̤ nâng pang-cŏ̤;
 * stand alone and uncountenanced; having no backer.


 * i nŏ̤ nâng sì put líang lîp;
 * they cannot both maintain themselves in position.


 * lîp kìⁿ kong-hāu;
 * at once see the efficacy.


 * lîp tīaⁿ kha-kṳn;
 * he has agreed to stay.


 * lîp sim lîp ì;
 * has his mind made up; has a settled purpose.


 * i kâi lîp sim hó̤;
 * his resolve is good.


 * lîp-khek cū àiⁿ;
 * want it instantly.

lit

 * Stretched at full length.
 * lît-tît lît-tît;
 * stretched stiffly at full length.
 * stretched stiffly at full length.


 * khĭa pàng kò̤ lît-lît tît-tît;
 * standing stiff and upright.


 * khah lît-tît, bô̤ mih kè-sì;
 * two straight up and down, with nothing to break the stiffness.


 * ût pàng kò̤ lît-lît tît-tît;
 * lying at full length.

liu

 * To slip or slide on the feet.
 * lō li kût, kîaⁿ lío liu pûah lô̤h khṳ̀;
 * the road was slippery, and he slipped and fell when walking.
 * the road was slippery, and he slipped and fell when walking.


 * i liu pûah lô̤h khṳ̀ tǹg tîeh ie-ciah-kut;
 * he slipped down and struck upon the end of his spine.


 * liu-pûah kàu cêk sin cĕng-cĕng thô;
 * slipped and fell down, thereby covering himself all over with mud.


 * cĕ liu cū tǹg cŏ̤ lô̤h khṳ̀;
 * slipped up, and sat down with a thud.


 * kha tâh hó̤-hó̤ bŏi liu;
 * set your feet down carefully and then you will not slip.


 * kha tîeh liu;
 * his foot slipped.


 * Slippery and miry.
 * liu-liu kût;
 * muddy and slippery.
 * muddy and slippery.


 * hŏ lô̤h lío, cêk lō liu-liu-kût;
 * since the rain, the road is very slippery.


 * tî-kîⁿ kò̤ kût-liu-liu, tîeh kîaⁿ hó̤-hó̤;
 * the margin of the pool is very slippery, you must step carefully.


 * To hook out, as by drawing a thing diagonally through a small aperture.
 * cang chíu lô̤h khṳ̀ khang tói kò̤ líu chut lâi;
 * put your hand down into the hole and gather it up and lift it out.
 * put your hand down into the hole and gather it up and lift it out.


 * chùi liôih, hṳ́ tòi li khuah, jw̆n líu, líu m̄ tîeh;
 * the mouth is narrow, and the space below is broad, howsoever I turn and twist it, I cannot get it out.


 * khîeh ki sî lô̤h pàng po̤-lî cun tói kò̤ líu, cìaⁿ líu tit chut;
 * take a spoon and put it down into the glass bottle, and then you can lift it out.


 * The willow; slender, arched, crescent-like, in allusion to the shape of the leaf.
 * líu chīu;
 * willows.
 * willows.


 * hue âng, líu lêk;
 * the red of flowers and the green of willows; gay; resplendent; variegated.


 * líu hîeh bâi;
 * arched eye-brows.


 * îang líu ie;
 * a slender waist; lithe, graceful.


 * hue líu tī-hng; hue koi líu háng;
 * haunts of gaiety and dissipation.


 * khǹg-kòi i máiⁿ hàuⁿ hue-líu;
 * exhort him not to cherish a fondness for gaiety.


 * tâng-líu;
 * the aspen.


 * To scoop out, to gouge out.
 * cí kò̤ châ tōiⁿ căi, hó̤ lâi líu cò̤ châ-khŭ;
 * this block of wood is very solid, it will be well to scoop it out and make a mortar of it.
 * this block of wood is very solid, it will be well to scoop it out and make a mortar of it.


 * i kò̤ kâi chù sĭ cang tek phùa lío, líu tīo mâk, lâi khàm cò̤ chù hĭa;
 * in making their houses, they take a bamboo, split it, dig out the knots, and lay on the half cylinders thus made, in the place of tiles.


 * líu tīo i kâi mâk-ciu;
 * gouge out his eyes.


 * líu i kâi sim-kuaⁿ chut lâi;
 * tear out his vitals.


 * A small skein, consisting of a few threads.
 * cêk líu jông;
 * a skein of floss.
 * a skein of floss.


 * cí líu sùaⁿ jîeh cōi tîo?
 * How many threads in this skein of silk?


 * nán kâi sùaⁿ kàu líu, tîo-siaⁿ sĭ tīaⁿ-tîeh kâi;
 * our thread is in skeins, having an exact number of threads in each.


 * A whirlpool, a maelstrom.
 * i kâi cûn sái lô̤h lìu khṳ̀;
 * their vessel sailed into the whirlpool and went down.
 * their vessel sailed into the whirlpool and went down.


 * lìu kâi cúi sĭ li-li ká-cn̄g lô̤h khṳ̀, só̤-íⁿ ŏi tit lô̤h bŏi tit chut;
 * the water of the whirlpool goes round and round and eddies downward, therefore there it no getting out of it.


 * To slide; to glide.
 * lìu pûah lô̤h khṳ̀;
 * slipped down.
 * slipped down.


 * lìu-lìu kût;
 * glairy.


 * tâng hṳ́ téng khṳt i lìu kàu cí ĕ lô̤h lâi;
 * slid from up there down to this point at one stretch.