# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/liam
### liamliam

* 拈liam634645
* To take up in the fingers.

#### liam khau;

    to draw lots.

#### liam hieⁿ;

    to set incense sticks.
* 斂líam5346613
* To enshroud; in medicine, to neutralize, to repress.

#### jûah thiⁿ-sî kâi si méⁿ-méⁿ siu lîam bûa;

    in hot weather a corpse must be quickly enshrouded.

#### tieⁿ líam;

    to prepare a corpse for the coffin.

#### jîp líam;

    to enshroud.

#### bī sng kâi, i kâi sèⁿ cū líam;

    it is in the nature of what is acid to repress heat.

#### īa m̄ hó̤ cîah khah líam;

    neither should one take too mach of what represses heat.
* 襝líam53514513
* To withdraw. The hands into the sleeve.

#### líam jîm pài;

    I sleeve my hands, and pay my respects; (a phrase on a lady's card. The hands are put one above the other).
* 捻lìam633648
* To pinch; to pinch up or off

#### ĕ tng m̄ hó̤ lìam i;

    do not pinch him again.

#### i lìam kàu i o-cheⁿ tah-tàng;

    he pinched him till he was black and blue in spots.

#### i khṳ̀ lìam i kâi kih-kau sĭ thīn i sn̂g;

    when she pinched his cheek it was merely in sport.

#### lìam kò̤ chòi lâi cò;

    pinch off a piece of dough to make it with.

#### lìam m̄ khí;

    cannot pinch it up.

#### lìam lío kâi cńg-thâu-ūi sûi-sî cū sio;

    the marks made by pinching with the fingers immediately disappeared.
* 瓣lìam6529714
* The sections of an orange; the scales of an onion.

#### cí kâi kaⁿ lṳ́ thóiⁿ jîeh cōi lìam;

    see how many carpels this orange has.

#### īu sĭ peh cêk lìam cêk lìam tó̤ bōi;

    shaddocks are divided into carpels and thus sold.

#### sǹg-thâu cêk lìam cêk lìam peh tīo mô̤h;

    pick the film off the garlic, scale by scale.
* 鐮lîam53416713
* A reaping hook; a bill hook.

#### lîam-to̤;

    a sickle or bill hook.

#### khîa lîam-to̤ lâi kuah cháu;

    take a reaping hook and cut the grass.

#### kau-lîam;

    a pruning hook.

#### kau-lîam-chieⁿ hó̤ phùa lîen-lŵn-kah-bé;

    a hooked spear is useful in breaking the ranks of armored horses chained together.
* 黏lîam6342025
* Viscid, sticky, glutinous, adhesive.

#### nĕ lîam-lîam;

    very adhesive.

#### mâk lío chíu lîam-lîam;

    got his hands all stuck up with it.

#### chíu jṳ́ kàu lîam-nî-tha-thi;

    daubed his hands with it till they were all stuck up as if with bird lime.

#### thóiⁿ tieh bô̤ ka-lîam;

    it appears ​to have no adhesive quality.

#### i kâi ūe tàⁿ lâi bô̤ ka bô̤ lîam;

    what he says has no coherence.

#### bô̤ íaⁿ bô̤ ciah kûi sṳ̄ khṳt i tàⁿ kàu ka-ka lîam-lîam;

    things for which there is not a particle of evidence, are made to appear as facts by his well connected statements.

#### ciah lô̤h khṳ̂ bô̤ lîam bô̤ sìam;

    it leaves no taste in the mouth after it is eaten.

#### tàⁿ kàu lîam-nî-tha-thi;

    stated very coherently.

#### i nŏ̤ nâng siang-hó̤ kàu lîam-nî-tha-thi;

    the two are inseparable friends.

#### tîeh ēng sie cúi lâi sói cìaⁿ bŏi lîam;

    must wash it with warm water, and then it will not be sticky.
* 簾lîam53411813
* A screen, of cloth, matting splints; curtains.

#### mn̂g lîam;

    a splint door-screen.

#### pò lîam;

    a curtain.

#### tek lîam;

    a bamboo screen.

#### lîam kauh khí;

    the screen is rolled up.

#### lîam pàng lô̤h lâi;

    the screen is let down.

#### pàng lîam;

    let down the screen.

#### kùa liam;

    a hanging screen.

#### tìo lìam;

    hang up a screen.

#### lîam lăi;

    behind the screen; secluded; retired.

#### pak tīo lîam;

    remove the screen.

#### cí pak lîam cò̤ jîeh cōi cîⁿ?

    How much did the making of this screen cost?

#### hien lîam, jîp lâi;

    turn aside the screen and enter.

#### kīe lîam;

    the curtains of a sedan chair.

#### lāi lîam kuaⁿ;

    deputies appointed by the chancellor to read the essays at an examination.

#### tìo lîam ãu hûe jīm;

    after the examination they return to their posts.

#### câh-lîam;

    a partitioning screen.

#### ûi-lîam;

    an enclosing screen.
* 廉lîam5345310
* Moderate; economical, frugal; disinterested ; pure.

#### lîam-chí;

    decency, modesty.

#### ŭ-lîam-chí kâi nâng;

    a modest person.

#### hṳ́ kâi nâng bô̤ lîam-chí;

    that person is brazen.

#### bô̤ lîam bô̤ chí;

    indecent.

#### i to m̄ pat lîam-chí;

    he has no sense of decency.

#### i ío kù lîam-chí;

    he is regardful of decency.

#### íang lîam ngṳ̂n;

    an anti-extortion allowance, a legal addition to the salary of officials.

#### cí kâi khueh toaⁿ-toaⁿ khàu-cŭ íang-lîam tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;

    in this post one depends solely upon the anti-extortion allowance.

#### kuaⁿ-liú lîam-mêng;

    magistrates that are incorruptible.

#### cí kâi kuaⁿ cheng-lîam căi;

    this magistrate judges equitably.

#### kè-lîam, kang sé;

    costs lessened, and work saved.

#### lîam-lîam nē;

    very economical.

#### kè-cîⁿ thó̤ khṳ̀ lîam căi;

    the price that he asks is very moderate.

#### i ŏi lîam-khĭam khak-khó;

    he is frugal and persevering.
* 髭lîam10291904
* Beard on the upper lip.

#### i kâi chiu m̄ kùe lîam;

    his beard does not cross his upper lip.

#### lṳ́ kâi chiu lâu khí lâi, ŏi kùe lîam;

    if you let your beard grow, you will have a moustache.

#### chiu cē m̄ kùe lîam thóiⁿ tîeh ía īeⁿ;

    if the moustache does not extend across the lip it makes one look ferocious.
* 臁lìam53413013
* The shin.

#### kha-lîam-kut;

    the shin bone.

#### i seⁿ kha-lîam chṳ;

    he has sore shins.

#### kûeh tîeh kha-lîam;

    abraded the shin.

#### pang-kha-lîam;

    a sloughing of the shin.
* 奩lîam5333711
* A lady's dressing case.

#### cng-lîam;

    a bride's trousseau.
* 𩼖lîam53419513

#### lîam hṳ̂;

    a species of mud-fish, of a dull green color and with stout jagged spines.

#### lîam hṳ̂, thâu tōa-tōa bih-bih;

    the head of the mud-fish is large and flat.
* 念lĭam635614
* To reflect on, to ponder over, to remember and consider, to regard.

#### kìⁿ-lĭam tîeh lṳ́;

    holds you in kind remembrance.

#### lĭam-lĭam, put bûang;

    keep in mind, and not forget.

#### jît mêⁿ sṳ-lĭam tîeh i;

    think of her day and night.

#### lĭam tîeh i kâi ṳn;

    recall her kindness to me.

#### sái i cô̤h-tn̆g lĭam-thâu;

    send him to check the first thought of it.

#### lĭam-kîp ke-hieⁿ;

    think fondly of one's native place.

#### úa khùa lĭam tîeh i;

    I am anxiously thinking of him.

#### mih sṳ̄ to sìo-lĭam tîeh i;

    everything calls her to mind.

#### i ŭ sìo-lĭam tîeh mē?

    Does he recollect us?
* 斂lĭam5346613
* To enshroud.

#### tieⁿ lĭam;

    winding-sheet.

#### siu lĭam;

    to wrap in a winding-sheet.
* 念līam635614
* To recite from memory; to learn by heart; to chant or drone.

#### līam cṳ;

    repeat passages from books.

#### lṳ́ līam úa thiaⁿ;

    you recite it to me.

#### līam keng;

    chant Buddhist chants.

#### līam hût;

    repeat the name of Buddh.

#### līam sì kù;

    recite verses.

#### līam kua, līam khek;

    to drone out songs and ballads.

#### līam sêk-sêk;

    memorize it perfectly.

#### thâk kàu pat līam;

    read it till you know it well enough to repeat it from memory.

#### úa cêk sî līam m̄ chut;

    I cannot just at this moment repeat it.
* 稜līam5061158
* An angle, a corner.

#### saⁿ līam pô̤;

    a weapon with a triangular blade; a three-cornered iron club.

#### àiⁿ cò̤ kúi līam kâi?

    How many angles will you have made in it?