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."

<hw>Reef</hw>, <i>v</i>. 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 <i>Quartz-reefing</i>.]

<hw>Regent-bird</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) An Australian Bower-bird,
<i>Sericulus melinus</i>, 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) <i>Mock Regent-bird</i>, now <i>Meliphaga phrygia</i>,
Lath.

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. pl. 48:

"<i>Zanthomyza Phrygia</i>, Swains., Warty-faced Honey-eater
[q.v.]; Mock Regent-Bird, Colonists of New South Wales."

<hw>Remittance-man</hw>, <i>n</i>. 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:

"<i>Remittance men</i>, as we call them here, are not so rare
in my experience; and in such cases I act upon a system."

<hw>Rewa-rewa</hw>, <i>n</i>. pronounced <i>raywa</i>, Maori
name for the New Zealand tree <i>Knightia excelsa</i>, R. Br.,
<i>N.O. Proteaceae</i>, the Honey-suckle of the New Zealand
settlers. Maori verb, <i>rewa</i>, 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 Institute,' vol. xi. art. iv. p. 73:

"Dry <i>rewarewa</i> wood was used for the charring."

1880. W. Colenso, `Traditions of the Maoris,' `Transactions
of New Zealand Institute,' vol. xiii. p. 53:

"The boy went into the forest, and brought back with him a
seed-pod of the rewarewa tree (<i>Knightia excelsa</i>). . . .
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, sl