Olapa (o-lá-pa)—those members of a hula company who moved in the dance, as distinguished from the hoopaa, q. v., who sat and cantillated or played on some instrument ([p. 28]).
Oli (ó-li)—a song; a lyric; to sing or chant ([p. 254]).
Olioli—Joyful.
Olohe (o-ló-he)—an expert in the hula; one who has passed the ailolo test and has also had much experience ([p. 32]).
Oo (o-ó)—a spade; an agricultural implement, patterned after the whale spade ([p. 85]); a blackbird, one of those that furnished the golden-yellow feathers for the ahuula, or feather cloak.
Paepae (pae-páe)—a prop; a support; the assistant to the po’o-pua’a ([p. 29]).
Pahu (pá-hu)—a box; a drum; a landmark; to thrust, said of a spear (pp. [103], [138]).
Pale (pá-le)—a division; a canto of a mele; a division of the song service in a hula performance (pp. [58], [89]).
Pali (pá-li)—a precipice; a mountain wall cut up with steep ravines. (Mele on pp. [51]-53, verses 4, 5, 8, 16, 17, 27, 49.)
Papa (pá-pa)—a board; the plane of the earth’s surface; a mythological character, the wife of Wakea.