Austral English Part 50
"It's our way up here, you know, to chi-ak each other and our visitors too."
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1895. G. Metcalfe, `Australian Zoology,' p. 62:
"The Cicada is often erroneously called a locust... . It is remarkable for the loud song, or chirruping whirr, of the males in the heat of summer; numbers of them on the hottest days produce an almost deafening sound."
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1830. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 119:
"Specimens of that species of eucalyptus called the cider-tree, from its exuding a quant.i.ty of saccharine liquid resembling mola.s.ses... . When allowed to remain some time and to ferment, it settles into a coa.r.s.e sort of wine or cider, rather intoxicating if drank to any excess."
. In Great Britain and Ireland the word City denotes "a considerable town that has been, (a) an episcopal seat, (b) a royal burgh, or (c) created to the dignity, like Birmingham, Dundee, and Belfast, by a royal patent. In the United States and Canada, a munic.i.p.ality of the first cla.s.s, governed by a mayor and aldermen, and created by charter." (`Standard.') In Victoria, by section ix. of the Local Government Act, 1890, 54 Victoria, No. 1112, the Governor-in-Council may make orders, #12:
"To declare any borough, including the city of Melbourne and the town of Geelong, having in the year preceding such declaration a gross revenue of not less than twenty thousand pounds, a city."
. in mining, a piece of land appropriated for mining purposes: then the mine itself.
The word is also used in the United States. See also Reward-claim and Prospecting-claim.
1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria,' c. xiv. p. 213:
"A family named Cavanagh ... entered a half-worked claim."
1863. H. Fawcett, `Political Economy,' pt. iii. c. vi.
p. 359 (`O.E.D.'):
"The claim upon which he purchases permission to dig."
1887. H. H. Hayter, `Christmas Adventure,' p. 3:
"I decided ... a claim to take up."
. name given, especially in the dry interior of Australia, to a slight depression of the ground varying in size from a few yards to a mile in length, where the deposit of fine silt prevents the water from sinking into the ground as rapidly as it does elsewhere.
1875. John Forrest, `Explorations in Australia,' p. 260:
"We travelled down the road for about thirty-three miles over stony plains; many clay-pans with water but no feed."
1896. Baldwin Spencer, `Horne Expedition in Central Australia,'
Narrative, vol. i. p. 17:
"One of the most striking features of the central area and especially amongst the loamy plains and sandhills, is the number of clay-pans. These are shallow depressions, with no outlet, varying in length from a few yards to half a mile, where the surface is covered with a thin clayey material, which seems to prevent the water from sinking as rapidly as it does in other parts."
. unbranded cattle or horses.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 206:
"These clean-skins, as they are often called, to distinguish them from the branded cattle."
1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. xv. p. 109:
"Strangers and pilgrims, calves and clear-skins, are separated at the same time."
1889. Rev. J. H. Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p. 82:
"`Clear-skins,' as unbranded cattle were commonly called, were taken charge of at once."
1893. `The Argus,' April 29, p.4, col. 4:
"As they fed slowly homeward bellowing for their calves, and lowing for their mates, the wondering clean-skins would come up in a compact body, tearing, ripping, kicking, and moaning, working round and round them in awkward, loblolly canter."
. Explained in quotation.
1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. i. c. x.
p. 321:
"[They] held a small piece of land on what is called a clearing lease--that is to say, they were allowed to retain possession of it for so many years for the labour of clearing the land."
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1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 124:
"The beautiful species of clematis called aristata, which may be seen in the months of November and December, spreading forth its milk-white blossoms over the shrubs ... in other places rising up to the top of the highest gum-trees."
, a flower.
1892. `Otago Witness,' Nov.24, `Native Trees':
"Hooker says the genus Clianthus consists of the Australian and New Zealand species only, the latter is therefore clearly indigenous. `One of the most beautiful plants known' (Hooker). Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solandel found it during Cook's first voyage."
(q.v.).
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(q.v.), which formerly included them both.
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1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 143: