) gives a quotation from North's `Plutarch'with the word in a slightly different shape, viz. the name to the resemblance they hear in thebird's cry to the noise of a rifle being fired and its bulletstriking the target. Compositae; alsothere called Dogwood (q. Swan: The idea which an Englishman signifies by the name Swan,is a white colour, long neck, black beak, black legs, an
Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. a bush term for a swell :a man who goes to the manager's house, not to the men's hut. Marcus Clarke, `Holiday Peak, &c. The man who has to make the grog takes the bowlby the edge and tilts it towards the king, or, in his absence,to the chief appointed to preside.
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