molave

The name molave is applied to several species of _Vitex_. especially to _V. geniculata_, Bl. [71] _Piña_: a silver design in the form of a pineapple.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

A barkentine, loaded with molave timber and carrying native passengers, had been driven ashore at the port that day, and the _One Lung_ had gone to the rescue and taken off the passengers.

A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

The grain is generally husked by them in a large mortar hewn from a block of _molave_, or other hardwood, in which it is beaten by a pestle.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

The afterbirth is placed in the care of an old woman who carries it directly to a sturdy molave [88] tree and there attaches it to the branches "so that the child may become strong like the tree."

The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition Fay-Cooper Cole 1921

The land at the sea level produces hemp, tobacco, rice, and cocoanuts; the heavily-timbered mountain slopes contain rich woods, cedar, mahogany, molave, ebony, and ipil.

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

This tablet is about three feet by one and one-half feet in size, and is made of molave wood; the letters (capitals) are neatly carved in the wood -- the work being done, in all probability, by some native under the priest's supervision.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

It is of an incorruptible wood which they call in those parts molave.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

I've put in only the strongest and most durable woods -- molave, dungon, ipil, langil -- and sent for the finest -- tindalo, malatapay, pino, and narra -- for the finishings.

The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

The mountains of the Philippines are clothed with numberless varieties of woods of almost every description of Oriental timber; but the markets of Europe being so distant, and the cost of freight to them so enormous, very few are sent there, except, perhaps, ebony and molave, although several beautiful descriptions of wood are employed by the cabinet-makers of the country and those of China, some of which are of superior beauty to anything I have ever seen at home when made up into furniture.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

Attached to the tablet is a card, bearing the following inscription: "This inscription, cut in molave wood, was accidentally found by the very reverend father Fray Jorge Romanillos, the present parish priest of Opong, in the island of Mactang, where it stood beside a cross, before the erection of the monument.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906