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  • healing plant
    [from its medicinal properties] n. the aloe, Aloe vera: (Hannan 25). ALOES, ALAVIS, BELLY-ACHE PLANT, PAIN-A-BELLY BUSH (San Sal., Inagua) 57.
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  • health: see your health
    [by euphemism] phr. to start menstruation: 1963 When I asked another female patient about the general state of her health,
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  • head (is) not good
    [Car.; cf. lbo isi adinama (lit, head not-good) idem (Okolo p.c.); cf. Yoruba ori kò dara (lit, head not good)
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  • head (is) hard
    [Gul. idem (Gonzales 1924:9); also Guy.; an African calque; cf, Twi tiri muden, Igbo isike, both (lit, head hard) stubborn
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  • head-bone
    [cf. W Car, head-skull idem DJE; cf. Haitian zo tèt HCEFD, lbo okpukpu isi (Okolo p.c.) and Yoruba egun ori
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  • head: my head spin
    phr. I lost my bearings. (Gen.)
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  • head
    v. [cf. DAE headwind a wind directly oppos-ing a ship in its course) (of wind when sailing) to come from
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  • head
    n. 1. 1W Car.] the stump of a root vegetable; the part which is planted; the main plant as opposed
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  • head
    quasi reflexive pron. [Pan-Creole; cf. Port. Cr. εl máta kabεsa (Meintel 1975:232) and Haitian "Li tuyé tèt-li" both (lit. 'He
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  • he
    adj. [W Car.; cf. Scots he a male CSD] (of plants) male: The he row of corn is next to
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