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

by Josiah Goddard

Sek.

熟^-4

Food cooked til quite done; ripe; mature; well acquainted with; experienced.

植⁴

Planted; stuck into the ground; erected.

色⁴

Color; quality; lust; sexual pleasure; appearance.

釋⁴

To unloose; liberate; disperse; explain; to happen.

飾⁴

To cleanse; set in; order; adorn; gloss; over; brighten.

嗇⁴

Harvest gathered in; to accumulate; covetous; frugal.

穡⁴

Grain fit to be gathered in; harvest; avaricious.

識⁴

To know; recognise; wisdom; knowledge.

踖⁴

Walking; reverent; respectful; to step over.

碩⁴

Large; full; ripe; mature; learned; virtuous.

瑟⁴

A stringed instrument of music; many; stern.

悉⁴

To know perfectly; to investigate; all; entirely.

蟋⁴

A cricket; grasshopper.

息⁴

To breathe; a breath; to stop; to rest; interest of money.

媳⁴

Daughter-in-law; son's wife.

熄⁴

To extinguish; to cover up embers to preserve them.

螫⁴

The sting of an insect; a poisonous tooth.

式⁴

A rule; pattern; specimen; to measure; to imitate.

軾⁴

A crossbar in carriages and sedan-chairs to lean on.

踷⁴

Walking in a crooked manner.

適⁴

To go to; to happen; to hit exactly; tranquility; joy.

晳⁴

To distinguish; to discriminate clearly.

夕⁴

Evening.

穸⁴

A long dark night; the tomb.