WORDS COMBINED.
1.—The eyebrows. The hair. The jaws. The chin. The nostrils. The neck. The gullet. 2.—The shoulders. The spine. The breast. The belly.
3.—The knee-cap. The ankle-bone. The joints. 4.—To scrape the face. To shave the head. To behead.
5.—Respectable. 6.—The eyebrows are the hair above the eyes. Ki koh means the hair on either side of the forehead. 7.—The jaws are the flesh on either side of the mouth. 8.—The bone below the mouth is the chin. 9.—The shoulders are at the top of the back.
10.—The space behind the shoulders is called the tiu koh and the tiu kou.
11.—What is behind the head is called the neck.
12.—The breast is below the throat and above the belly. 13.—The knee-cap is the joint in the middle of the leg. The joint above the foot is called the ankle. 14.—When people are too young to have beards their faces have to be scraped.
15.—In shaving, what is shaved off is the short hair growing outside the queue. Outlaws who do not shave the head are called long-haired rebels.
16.—When a rebel is captured he is beheaded, and the head cut off is called a koh fi.
17.—When you say a man is respectable, you mean that his conduct has nothing bad about it. When you say that that man lai tao lah, you mean that he is good-looking.