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expedient, convenient; worthy, proper, right (B.): 25. To be like, even as, so (R.): 26. To apply to ; to relate to : 27. To be sufficient, adequate, commensurate; to be accordant with; to agree ; to suit: 28. To fit, to suit —as clothes, &c.; to feel agreeable to (Tng.); to feel easy in, to be at home with : 29. To be settled, fixed, arranged —as a price: 30. To abide under, dwell, trust, reside: 31. To secure, to obtain : 32. To count, to number: 33. To rehearse, relate, or repeat, so as another may hear, heed, or learn: 34. To sit down at once, or suddenly; to seat one's self: 35. To be directed towards, incline —as the ear to listen : 36. To be directed to : 37. To handle a weapon, &c, well: 38. To hang, tie, or gird, on —as a sash, sword, &c. (H.) : 39. To be hanging, or suspended, as a strap, &c. (H.): 40. To be suspended; to overhang —as the stars, &c. (H.) : 41. To be furnished, fitted up : 42. To descend to the bottom of the sea : 43. To float, rest, lay on paddles, or oars : 44. To fall into the water and float as a cork, calabash (whole), &c.: 45. To ride, or be at anchor : to float, or swim lightly, as a sea-gull: 46. To make land, to touch at in sailing: 47. To arrive at a place (Tng.) : 48. To reach to : 49. To storm; to assault —as a fortified village (to fight, to war, Tng.) : 50. To attack —as a dog : 51. To bark, to howl —as a dog : 52. To fall, as tears : 53. To fall upon, embrace affectionately (H.) 54. To squeeze, or wring out (Tng.) : 55. To have fungi (mildew, &c.) growing on one's dead body, bones, &c.: Tau, adj. 1. Heavy,—as, heavy rain : 2. Setting, falling —as the sun (H.): 3. Unknown, strange —used as a prefix: Tau tangata, tau iwi, tail, whenua. Tau, intj. Lo ! used in narration. Tau, part. Prefixed to several verbs and nouns as an intensitive. Whakatau 3 «.(Pass.=a: «?.».=nga): 1. To essay; to try; to make an attempt (Tng.) :

2. To be proved, tried : 3. To try to elicit; to attempt to draw out, in conversation: 4. To scheme, plan, arrange, contrive, consider: 5. To place: 6. To settle —as a people : 7. To go to meet a coming person, or party: 8. To go to seek : 9. To follow ; to send after : 10. To visit: 11. To lead ; to conduct (Tng.) : 12. To seek for a landing-place : 13. To take a canoe, &c, from off the land into the sea, river, &c, to anchor : 14. To ape, mimic, mock; to imitate; to follow in example ; to copy for slight ridicule : 15. To make a friend; to call one so (E. Tng.) : 16. To gaze on ; fix the eyes intently on: 17. To endeavour to sit quietly: 18. To tempt (H.): 19. To set against; to resist; to obstruct; to oppose (H.) : 20. To perform; to do : 21. To rest (H.): 22. To bring upon; to cause to fall upon (H.) : 23. To cause to fight (Tng.) : 24. To administer laws, &c, but more with the meaning of rigour: 25. To be bound to ; bound over : 26. To appoint against (H.); to come upon ; to convict: Whakatau, s. Trying, fitting, scheming, arranging, contriving, tempting, imitating, conducting. Whakatau, adj. Copied, imitated, tried. Whakatau, adt. Fondly, pleasingly, attentively, anxiously, searchingly: I titiro lohakatau ai raua tetahi ki tetahi. Whakatau, Kai -s. A person who goes, or who is sent, to meet a coming party ; a herald. # # # # Tuku, ».(Pass.=a:=na: «.w.=nga). (Tng. P., H. Kuu\ T. Tuu: R. Duku): 1. To let go; to quit; to let loose; to unloose (H. Tng. T.) : 2. To give up; to give in; to yield the palm to; to resign; to surrender (H. Tng. T.) : 3. To set free; to release; to liberate; to dismiss; to send away quietly; to allow to leave; to let go out of confinement, or prison. (T.)