Chapter XVII

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From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

-ing form of “adorn” — make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

fear resulting from the awareness of danger

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

surrounded by; in the middle of a group

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

in or to or toward a former location

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

plural of “band” — an unofficial association of people or groups

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a small ball with a hole through the middle

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

several beads threaded together on a string

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

the pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

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From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “bite” — a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

an alloy of copper and zinc

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the act of burning something

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

concealing something under the ground

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

actively or fully engaged or occupied

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

light automatic rifle

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a series of things depending on each other as if linked together

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “child” — a young person of either sex

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

without stop or interruption

From this reading MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_continued_.

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

accepted or habitual practice

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

money collected under a tariff

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “dealer” — someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

completely wanting or lacking

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “difficulty” — an effort that is inconvenient

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the act of discovering something

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the property created by the space between two objects or points

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

separated in space or coming from or going to a distance

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “district” — a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

put on clothes

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

take in liquids

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the act of consuming liquids

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

plural of “earring” — jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

any substance that can be used as food

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “enemy” — an opposing military force

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

more distant in especially space or time

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

bringing death

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

plural of “fillet” — a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a young female

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the act of departing

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “good” — benefit

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

plural of “harvest” — the yield from plants in a single growing season

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

plural of “head” — the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

plural of “hill” — a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “horn” — a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

From this reading Perhaps she is in a hurry.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “inch” — a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

plural of “inhabitant” — a person who inhabits a particular place

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “invitation” — a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

attractive and tempting

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

people of Ireland or of Irish extraction

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

a short coat

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Wide-mouthed cylindrical containers made of clay or glass, used for storing goods.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

From this reading MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_continued_.

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From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

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From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

immediately past

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

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From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

darkened with overcast

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

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From this reading MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_continued_.

make a logical or causal connection

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “look” — the feelings expressed on a person's face

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

most important element

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

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From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

come together

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the force of workers available

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

used to form the superlative

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

plural of “mountain” — a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading MY LIMBANG JOURNAL--_continued_.

near in time or place or relationship

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women)

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

not any; not one

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

not one thing; not anything

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

come into possession of

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

plural of “ornament” — something used to beautify

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

a course of conduct

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the most extreme possible amount or value

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

by chance

From this reading Perhaps she is in a hurry.

plural of “petticoat” — undergarment worn under a skirt

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the quantity of a crop that is harvested

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “plan” — a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “plantation” — an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

existing in great number or quantity

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

-ing form of “prepare” — make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

past form of “procure” — get by special effort

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

bring forth or yield

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

past form of “propose” — make a proposal, declare a plan for something

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

people in general considered as a whole

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

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From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

past form of “purchase” — obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

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From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

plural of “range” — an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “raspberry” — woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

-ing form of “receive” — get something; come into possession of

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

imparting vitality and energy

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

take delight in

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

steal goods; take as spoils

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a charge of ammunition for a single shot

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

an established line of travel or access

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “runaway” — an easy victory

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a particular instance of selling

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

an elaborate and systematic plan of action

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the month following August and preceding October

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

plural of “shot” — the act of firing a projectile

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

inflected form of “show” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

marked by correspondence or resemblance

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a person who is owned by someone

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

possessive form of “tiger” — a fierce or audacious person

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

of the highest quality

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

the topmost one of two

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a community of people smaller than a town

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “village” — a community of people smaller than a town

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

close enough to be walked to

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

be dressed in

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

at the time that

From this reading _September 19th._--Many of the women in this village wear fillets of beads round their heads to keep back the hair; it looks well at a distance, but when near, most of them are so dirty that nothing could look well upon them.

an old word meaning “from where”

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

a Caucasian

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

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From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity

From this reading Here is a girl going out to the fields to work, and she is putting on her ornaments; first, the bands round the head; then a necklace of beads of twenty strings; then a chain made of brass wire, each link four or five inches long, but most of them wear the last ornament round the waist.

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.

(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

From this reading Women’s Ornaments--Adorning in Public--Confidence shown by a young Girl--Geography--Leech Bites--Tapioca--The Manipa Stream--The False and True Brayong--Nothing but Rice to be purchased--Wild Raspberries--Good Shots--The Rifle Carbine--Death of a Kite--Picking a Cocoa-nut--Curious Statement--A Village of Runaways--Proposed Slave Hunt--Disappointment--Appearance of the Women--Old Look of the Children--Devoid of Drapery--Preparing the Plantations--No Goods for Sale--Edible Bird’s-nest Cave--Difficulties in penetrating farther--Determine to return--Climate--New Route--Custom in Drinking similar to the Chinese--Anecdote of Irish Labourers--Change of Plans--Fashion of wearing Brass Wire--Start on a Tour among the Villages--The Burning Path--Village of Purté--Refreshing Drink--The Upper Trusan--Distant Ranges--Inviting and receiving Invitations--Fatal Midnight Revel--Tabari’s Village--Alarm of Orang Kaya Upit--Suspension Bridge--Inhabitants--Scheme of the Adangs to return to their old Districts--Deers’ Horns--Mourning--Difficult Walking--The Tiger’s Leap--Meet Si Puntara--No Real Enemies--Murud--The Gura Peak--The Main Muruts--Salt as well as Slave Dealers--Bearskin Jacket--White Marble--Uncertainty whence procured--Leaden Earrings-- Unbecoming Custom--Lofty Mountains--Lawi Cloud-hidden--Muruts busy Farming--Two Harvests a Year--Agricultural Produce plentiful--Obtain a Goat--Dress of the Men--Bead Petticoats--Custom of burying on the Tops of the Lofty Hills--Desecration of Graves--Jars--Discovery of one in Brunei--Similar Millanau Customs.