A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect (汕頭方言音義字典) / meh

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咩

• To bleat.

• îe meh-meh;

  sheep bleat.

• meh-meh-kìe;

  bleating.

貘

• The tapir, which is said to have the body of a bear, the nose of an elephant, the eye of a rhinoceros, the head of a lion, the hair of a wolf, the feet of a tiger, and teeth that fire cannot burn.

• mêh ŏi cîah thih, tîeh ēng húe cìaⁿ lêng mûeh sí i;

  the tapir eats iron, and in order to kill one, fire must be employed.

脈

• The blood running in the veins; the pulse; the idea running through; parentage.

• àng mêh; phah mêh;

  feel the pulse.

• chíaⁿ sin-seⁿ thóiⁿ mêh;

  call a doctor to consider the pulse.

• i kâi mêh-lí ceng căi;

  he understands thoroughly the laws of the circulation of the blood.

• ŏi kìⁿ sí mêh, mē?

  Do you discover that the disease is likely to prove fatal?

• mêh ŭ sîn;

  the pulse shows strength.

• i kâi mêh só̤ seⁿ sĭ ìuⁿ-sìu;

  his pulse is naturally slow and weak.

• kâi mêh khah phû-hùam cho-tōa;

  his pulse is much too high.

• i m̄ pat mêh;

  he does not know how to investigate disease through the pulse.

• chin hueh mêh;

  own kindred; blood relations.

• cí cìeⁿ cōi tō̤ to sĭ cêk mêh siang sêng bŏi chàm câp;

  all these many generations are of one blood, without admixture from other families.

• cí kò̤ sĭ cho̤ chut mêh kâi tī-hng;

  this is where the family first came from.

• jîp mêh, cí cêk cak ngía căi;

  for entering upon the argument, this verse is a fine one to take up.

• tâng hûeh mêh;

  of one blood.