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 wash-board.
 * ìⁿ-bí thoah cheng-khih;
 * rub all the husks off the barley by rubbing it on a rough surface.


 * To wash or scour rice.
 * cang thoah bí kâi cúi khṳ̀ sói;
 * wash it in the water in which rice has been scoured.
 * wash it in the water in which rice has been scoured.


 * thoah bí tîeh thoah thíam cē;
 * in washing the rice you must stir it about more violently.

thoi


 * A hair-pin, broad and curved so that it will lie across the occiput; those who wear hair-pins, females.
 * kim thoi;
 * gold hair-pins.
 * gold hair-pins.


 * hŏng thoi;
 * a hair-pin with a phenix on it.


 * kim-thoi cîeh hôk; thoi-hôk;
 * a kind of medicine, the stem of an orchid, whose dried stalks are likened to hair-pins, and look like liquorice roots.


 * The body, the whole person; a solid; a class; a body of officers; the important; essentials; becoming; respectable; influential; to receive courteously.
 * sin-thói;
 * the human body; bodily.
 * the human body; bodily.


 * chut sin lò thói;
 * chiah sin lò thói; stark naked.


 * cìeⁿ-seⁿ m̄ hah thói-sek;
 * that is not in good taste.


 * cò̤ mih sṳ̄ to tîeh tit thói;
 * all things must be done decently and in order; in everything, suitable respect must be paid to persons.


 * thói-thiap;
 * to accommodate; to sympathize with; to put one's self in another's place.


 * i mih sṳ̄ to thói-thiap nâng;
 * he is very accommodating in everything.


 * thói-thóng;
 * decorum; what is befititng.


 * chŵn bô̤ kâi thói-thóng;
 * has no sense of propriety.


 * úa thóiⁿ i bô̤ kâi sin-seⁿ thói;
 * he does not appear to me to have the aspect of a teacher.


 * Instead, for, in place of; to alter; to supersede; to substitute.
 * nŏ̤ nâng sie táu thòi;
 * the two spell each other at it.
 * the two spell each other at it.


 * ŭ sî úa li thòi lú, ŭ sî lṳ́ li thò̤i úa;
 * sometimes you take my place, and sometimes I take yours.


 * lṳ́ thòi i cò̤;
 * you do it in his stead.


 * cang cí kâi thòi hṳ́ kâi lâi chō̤;
 * take this to put it in instead of that.


 * kò cêk kâi thòi-sin;
 * hire a substitute.


 * cí kâi sĭ i kâi thòi-sin;
 * this is his substitute.


 * i sĭ thòi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄;
 * he is acting in another's place.


 * kio pât nâng thòi phōiⁿ hùe-mûeh;
 * buying and selling goods for another person.


 * thó̤ khṳ̀ thò̤i nâng sí;
 * ask the privilege of dying in another's stead.


 * cí kâi kuaⁿ sĭ thòi ĺi kâi;
 * this magistrate is acting in place of another.


 * i tàⁿ i cí nŏ̤ mêⁿ thiaⁿ-kìⁿ kúi tó̤ hàm thòi;
 * he says he has heard a bodiless spirit calling him these last two nights to commit suicide.

 thóiⁿ


 * To look at; to see; to regard carefully; aspect.
 * chin mâk thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;
 * see with one's own eyes.
 * see with one's own eyes.


 * lṳ́ thóiⁿ-kìⁿ mē?
 * Do you see it?


 * khṳt úa thóiⁿ;
 * let me see it.


 * úa li thóiⁿ-m̄-kìⁿ;
 * I do not see it.


 * hó̤ thóiⁿ căi;
 * presenting an admirable appearance.


 * thóiⁿ m̄ cĭeⁿ mâk;
 * the sight is repulsive.


 * lṳ́ thóiⁿ tîeh hó̤ a m̄-hó̤?
 * Do you consider it well to do so or not?


 * thóiⁿ kha thóiⁿ chíu;
 * to stare at one.


 * khṳt úa thóiⁿ phùa lío;
 * I have seen through it; the trick of it has been found out by me.


 * thóiⁿ m̄ chit;
 * cannot perceive it.


 * thóiⁿ tîeh m̄ pat tò̤ jīn;
 * do not recognize it.


 * i cheⁿ-mêⁿ, mâk-ciu thóiⁿ m̄ kìⁿ;
 * he is blind, and does not see.


 * híen khui lâi thóiⁿ;
 * turn over the leaves and see.


 * thóiⁿ cṳ;
 * to read silently.


 * thóiⁿ sìeⁿ kâi nâng;
 * a physiognomist.


 * i jī ke tó̤ sie thóiⁿ;
 * the two are looking at each other.


 * i cē thóiⁿ tŏ̤ i mâk cū tŏ̤ i chíu;
 * as soon as he takes a fancy to a thing he has it.


 * i cē thóiⁿ tŏ̤ i mâk cū tŏ̤ i tó;
 * as soon as it comes within the range of his eye, he takes it into his mind.


 * thóiⁿ khin;
 * look upon with contempt.


 * thóiⁿ tăng; thóiⁿ tŏng;
 * regard with respect.


 * cía sĭ cêk īeⁿ thóiⁿ huap;
 * this is his way of looking at things.


 * thóiⁿ mn̂g;
 * watch the house.


 * i thóiⁿ i, ithóiⁿ i;
 * looking at each other.


 * thóiⁿ kàu kông;
 * look till dazed.


 * thóiⁿ-síu sîaⁿ mn̂g;
 * guard the city gates.


 * m̄ pat thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;
 * never saw.


 * lṳ́ phīⁿ thóiⁿ hó̤ a m̄-hó̤;
 * you examine it by smelling it and see whether it is good.


 * cîah thóiⁿ hó̤ mē;
 * taste some and see if it is good.


 * chì thóiⁿ jîeh hó̤;
 * try it and see how good it is.


 * mông thòiⁿ jîeh kût;
 * feel and see how smooth it is.


 * thóiⁿ m̄ hīn;
 * do not see clearly.

thoih


 * To bolster up.
 * thoih kàu nĕ ńng-ńng;
 * bolster it up very carefully.
 * bolster it up very carefully.


 * hṳ́ ĕ tîeh ŭ mûeh thoih, cìaⁿ bŏi tiaⁿ-cŭang tīo;
 * there must be something soft put under it, then it will not be broken by a thump.


 * hṳ́ ĕ thoih kò̤ tê-tĭen sĭ chiu-kue-phûe;
 * the mat which is under the tea-pot is a vegetable sponge.


 * To pant, as horses do.
 * hía bé kiaⁿ kàu thôih;
 * the horse pants from fright.
 * the horse pants from fright.


 * To gasp, as if in death.
 * thóiⁿ-kìⁿ thôih-a-thôih, hŵn-lío cîah ke ku-ā nî;
 * looked as if gasping his last breath and yet lived for many more years.
 * looked as if gasping his last breath and yet lived for many more years.


 * khùn kàu tó̤ thôih;
 * so nearly exhausted that