'"

[So also "bad mark," in the opposite sense.]

<hw>Mariner</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in Tasmania to
a marine univalve mollusc, either <i>Elenchus badius</i>,
or <i>E. bellulus</i>, Wood.

The <i>Mariner</i> is called by the Tasmanian Fishery
Commissioners the "Pearly Necklace Shell"; when deprived of its
epidermis by acid or other means, it has a blue or green pearly
lustre.

The shells are made into necklaces, of which the aboriginal
name is given as <i>Merrina</i>, and the name of the shell
is a corruption of this word, by the law of Hobson-Jobson.
Compare <i>Warrener</i>.

1878. `Catalogue of the Objects of Ethnotypical Art in the
National Gallery' (Melbourne), p. 52:

"Necklace, consisting of 565 shells (<i>Elenchus Bellulus</i>)
strung on thin, well-made twine. The native name of a cluster
of these shells was, according to one writer, <i>Merrina</i>."

<hw>Marsh</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Tasmanian name for a meadow.
See quotation.

1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 163:

"Perhaps my use of the common colonial term `marsh' may be
misunderstood at home, as I remember that I myself associated
it at first with the idea of a swamp; but a `marsh' here is
what would in England be called a meadow, with this difference,
that in our marshes, until partially drained, a growth of
tea-trees (<i>Leptospermum</i>) and rushes in some measure
encumbers them; but, after a short time, these die off, and are
trampled down, and a thick sward of verdant grass covers the
whole extent: such is our `marsh.'"

<hw>Marsupial</hw>, <i>adj</i>. See the Noun.

<hw>Marsupial</hw>, <i>n</i>. an animal in which the female has
an abdominal pouch in which the young, born in a very immature
state, are carried. (Lat. Marsupium = a pouch.) At the
present day Marsupials are only found in America and the
Australian region, the greater number being confined to the
latter. See quotation 1894, Lydekker.

1848. W. Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. 129:

"The marsupial type exhibits the economy of nature under novel
and very interesting arrangements. . . . Australia is the
great head-quarters of the marsupial tribe."

1860. G. Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,' p. 5:

"I believe it was Charles Lamb who said, the peculiarity of the
small fore-feet of the Kangaroo seemed to be for picking
pockets; but he forgot to mention the singularity
characterizing the animal kingdom of Australia, that they have
pockets