Crossword-Solution: MELE 4 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Introspection To the Reader There existed formerly, in diplomatic circles, a curious custom, since fallen into disuse, entitled the Pele Mele, contrived doubtless by some distracted Master of Ceremonies to quell the endless jealousies and quarrels for precedence between courtiers and diplomatists of contending pretensions.

Fiorenzo on this destination; but fell in, off Cape del Mele, with the enemy's fleet, who immediately gave his squadron chase.

Her eyes, withered to scarcely more than peepholes, were sharp as a mongoose’s, and at Bella’s feet she first sank down, in pure Hawaiian mumbling and chanting a toothless _mele_ of Bella and Bella’s ancestry and adding to it an extemporized welcome back to Hawaii after her absence across the great sea to California.

And while she chanted her _mele_, the old crone’s shrewd fingers _lomied_ or massaged Bella’s silk-stockinged legs from ankle and calf to knee and thigh.

Both Bella’s and Martha’s eyes were luminous-moist, as the old retainer repeated the _lomi_ and the _mele_ to Martha, and as they talked with her in the ancient tongue and asked the immemorial questions about her health and age and great-great-grandchildren—she who had _lomied_ them as babies in the great house at Kilohana, as her ancestresses had _lomied_ their ancestresses back through the unnumbered generations.