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A Chinese and English vocabulary, in the Tie-chiu dialect/Chin

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Chin.

1
True; sincere; genuine; truth.
1
A ford or ferry; a creek; to ford; to moisten.
1
Fuel; brambles; to collect fuel.
1
Trees; brushwood; a small fruit like a chestnut.
1
Affluence; at ease; many; a multitude.
1
Exuberant foliage; a great accumulation; many.
1
To extend to the utmost limit; highest degree.
2
To insert; attach to; to introduce; to take.
2
To deliver; draw out.
2
Boys from ten to twelve years of age; good.
2
To be pregnant; motion of the child in the womb.
2
To shake; excite; adjust; repair.
2
Rich; to enrich; to supply the wants of; give to.
2
To shake; agitate; begin.
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To exhaust; finish; entirely; the extreme point.
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To advance; to introduce; recommend, exert one's self.
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To introduce; recommend; pasture; grass.
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Grass; vegetables; pasture; to continue still as before.
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To increase; attach to; name of a Chinese dynasty.
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To attach to one; wrap around; carnation color; silk.