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A piece of cloth measuring 2.50 m in length and sufficient for an ordinary pair of trousers.

Daring, audacious, bold, defiant, impertinent, reckless, impudent, insolent, foolhardy, rash, venturesome, brave, violent. (see súpug, makáhas, maaháng, maísug, masurísol).

A prefix used to form:

a.) The passive future tense, e.g. Pagabuháton ko iní. I will (shall) do this. I am going to do it. Pagahulatón ko gid siá. I will certainly wait for him. Pagasulatán ko siá sa buás. Tomorrow I am going to write him. Pagaitúnghol ko sa íya iníng sulát sa madalî nga saráng mahímò. I'll hand him this letter as soon as possible.

b.) The negative present tense of the passive voice, e.g. Ngáa man nga walâ nínyo pagasilhigí ang balatonán? Why are you not sweeping the reception room? Walâ níla pagasókla ang dútà. They are not measuring (surveying) the land. Walâ ko pagaibalígyà ang bág-o nga pinatubás ko nga kalámay. I am not selling my new sugar crop. (see maga-the corresponding counterpart for the active voice).

(Sp. figura) Figure, form, shape, outline, exterior aspect. (see dágway, báyhon, hitsúra, tsúri).

To lap, lick up, take food or drink with the tongue; splash or produce a sound as of food or drink being lapped by a dog, etc. Ang bíbi nagasírib sa lúnang. The duck is slapping the mud with its bill. (see súrib).

To measure liquid and dry goods. Sókba iníng humáy. Measure this rice. Sókbi akó sing duhá ka pásong. Measure out two bushels for me. Isokób iníng gantángan. Use this gántang-measure for measuring. (see sókol, takús).

(H) Measure, standard, gage (for measuring dry and liquid goods). (see sokób, taláksan).

To measure and divide the harvest, particularly said of the measuring of threshed and winnowed rice in presence of the owner of the land and of his tenant or tenants, each one being allotted his share. Masúbay (magasúbay) kitá sa buás sang áton humáy. To-morrow we shall measure and divide our rice. Subáya ang humáy. Measure the rice-crop. (see sokób, takús, báhin, párte).

A small bamboo cup for measuring out toddy or for drinking out of.