Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name in New Zealand of the fish Hemiramphus intermedius, of the family Hemiramphidæ.
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Examples
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Two major assumptions taken from BT Ketubbot 75a (etc.) underlie marriage and divorce halakhah: “Resh Lakish says: It is better to sit with [a] partner than to sit alone,” (tav lemeitav tandu mi-lemeitav armelu) and “A woman is satisfied with any [marital] situation” (ihi bekhol dehu niha la).
Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Because the Big Island still resides over the hot spot, volcanic activity is still observed there, but the movement of the Pacific plate continues, and a new undersea volcano (Lo ` ihi) appears to be growing into an island off the Big Island's southeast coast.
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary 2008
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Elegant in formal, permanently pressed walking shorts and casual pullover, Follingston-Heath escorted Mina Gelmann through the double doorway designed to keep marauding deer, moose, and chipmunks from devastating the lush flower beds which surrounded Wing C of the Village, and out onto the gravel path that led down to the shore ol ihi the underadministrator who barged unannounced into his ol fice, thereby disturbing his contemplation of a blissfully un-crowded desk.
Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Of hem sade ðe p {ro} phete : _Fuerunt m {ihi} _ {75} _lacrime me [e] panes die ac nocte.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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E na Akua o kuu Alii, kuu milimili, kuu ihi kapu, ka mea nana e kalua keia mau iwi.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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The orare, aturi, and paaihere were like the gleaming mesh purses worn by the women of our cities, but the ihi was as red as the beard of the Greek god T'yonni.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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Such use of print invites examination of whether it was a tool of colonisation, a point touched on by Kuni Jenkins in 'Te ihi te mana te wehi o te tuhi 1814-55' (1991).
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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Jenkins, Kuni 1991, Te ihi, te mana, te wehi o te tuhi: Maori print literacy from 1814-1855, MA thesis, University of Auckland.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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Hayes (whom they had never actually seen), because the _ihi vaka_
Concerning "Bully" Hayes From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Louis Becke 1884
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In a urialniindnr, thr lir«, t hattali'iii coidd not Ik - carried to ns conipit iiKiit of 800 nun, without dislnrnishin;; the ranks oi ihi. other two.
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