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

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Kiu.

-1
A sonorous stone; a globe; a sphere.
-1
A ball to play with; a kind of silk or cloth; staff; lamp.
絿-1
Hurried; pressed; urgent; precipitate.
2
A precious stone of inferior value and black color; nine.
2
A threefold cord; to combine; head a conspiracy; to examine into; prohibit.
2
Possessing talents and strength; martial.
2
A dial; a gnomon to show the declination of the sun; a day.
-3
A body laid in its coffin.
-3
Poor and diseased; chronic disease; perverse.
-3
Error; crime; quarrel, to hate wickedness; to judgements of heaven; hate.
-3
A large drum twelve cubits long; to beat a drum.
3-
To search; device; investigate; to push to the utmost; finally; to hate.
3-
To assist; protect; rescue; save; to prohibit; prevent.