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(q.v.).
, Gould.
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means "a chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water." (`Webster.')
1858. T. McCombie, `History of New South Wales,' c. xiv.
p. 213:
"A party ... discovered gold in the quartz-reefs of the Pyrenees [Victoria]."
1860. W. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' vol. ii. p. 148:
"If experience completely establishes the fact, at least, under existing systems, that the best-paying reefs are those that are largely intersected with fissures--more inclined to come out in pebbles than in blocks--or, if I might coin a designation, `rubble reefs,' as contradistinguished from `boulder reefs,'
showing at the same time a certain degree of ignigenous discoloration ... still, where there are evidences of excessive volcanic effect ... the reef may be set down as poor ..."
1866. A. R. Selwyn, `Exhibition Essays,' Notes on the Physical Geography, Geology, and Mineralogy of Victoria:
"Quartz occurs throughout the lower palaeozoic rocks in veins, `d.y.k.es' or `reefs,' from the thickness of a thread to 130 feet."
1869. R. Brough Smyth, `Goldfields Glossary,' p. 619:
"Reef. The term is applied to the tip-turned edges of the palaeozoic rocks. The reef is composed of slate, sandstone, or mudstone. The bed-rock anywhere is usually called the reef.
A quartz-vein; a lode."
1874. Reginald A. F. Murray, `Progress Report, Geological Survey, Victoria,' vol. i. p. 65 [Report on the Mineral Resources of Ballarat]:
"This formation is the `true bottom,' `bed rock' or `reef,'
of the miners."
1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 5:
"In looking for reefs the experienced miner commences on the top of the range and the spurs, for the reason that storm-waters have carried the soil into the gullies and left the bed-rock exposed."
. to work at a reef.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. iii. p. 30:
"The University graduate ... was to be seen patiently sluicing, or reefing, as the case might be."
[See also Quartz-reefing.]
, Lath., named out of compliment to the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV. (therefore named before 1820).
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 161:
"Mr. Gilbert observed the female of the Regent-bird."
(2) Mock Regent-bird, now Meliphaga phrygia, Lath.
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. pl. 48:
"Zanthomyza Phrygia, Swains., Warty-faced Honey-eater [q.v.]; Mock Regent-Bird, Colonists of New South Wales."
. one who derives the means of an inglorious and frequently dissolute existence from the periodical receipt of money sent out to him from Europe.
1892. R. L. Stevenson, `The Wrecker,' p. 336:
"Remittance men, as we call them here, are not so rare in my experience; and in such cases I act upon a system."
, to float. The seed-vessel is just like a Maori canoe.
1857. C. Hursthouse, `New Zealand, the Britain of the South,' vol. i. p. 143:
"Rewarewa (honeysuckle), a handsome flowering tree common on the outskirts of the forests. Wood light and free-working: the grain handsomely flowered like the Baltic oak."
1878. R. C. Barstow, `On the Maori Canoe,' `Transactions of the New Zealand Inst.i.tute,' vol. xi. art. iv. p. 73:
"Dry rewarewa wood was used for the charring."
1880. W. Colenso, `Traditions of the Maoris,' `Transactions of New Zealand Inst.i.tute,' vol. xiii. p. 53:
"The boy went into the forest, and brought back with him a seed-pod of the rewarewa tree (Knightia excelsa)... .
He made his way to his canoe, which was made like the pod of the rewarewa tree."
1983. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand,' p. 129:
"Rewarewa, a lofty, slender tree, 100 feet high. Wood handsome, mottled red and brown, used for furniture and shingles, and for fencing, as it splits easily. It is a most valuable veneering wood."
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1891. W. Tilley, `Wild West of Tasmania,' p. 11:
"Prospected with the result that he discovered the first payable gold on the West Coast, for which he obtained a reward claim."
, `a tail.'
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(q.v.).
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are beautiful evergreens about three feet high, and bear rose-coloured, white, and yellow blooms.
, a small marine mollusc, so called from a supposed resemblance to grains of rice, and used for necklaces.