e: intractable, angry, out of temper.

1891. `The Argus,' Oct. 10, p. 13, col. 4:

"The service has shown itself so `ropeable' heretofore that
one experiences now a kind of chastened satisfaction in seeing
it roped and dragged captive at Sir Frederick's saddle-bow."

1896. Modern. In school-boy slang: "You must not chaff him,
he gets so ropeable."

<hw>Roping-pole</hw>, <i>n</i>. a long pole used for casting
a rope over an animal's head in the stockyard.

1880. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c. iv. p. 44:

"I happened to knock down the superintendent with a
roping-pole."

1895. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 125:

"I'm travelling down the Castlereagh and I'm a station-hand,
I'm handy with the ropin'-pole, I'm handy with the brand,
And I can ride a rowdy colt, or swing the axe all day,
But there's no demand for a station-hand along the Castlereagh."

<hw>Rosary-shell</hw>, <i>n</i>. In Europe, the name is
applied to any marine gastropod shell of the genus
<i>Monodonta</i>. In Australia, it is applied to the shell
of <i>Nerita atrata</i>, Lamarck, a marine mollusc of small
size and black colour used for necklaces, bracelets, and
in place of the "beads" of a rosary.

<hw>Rose</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the Australian shrub,
<i>Boronia serrulata</i>, Sm., <i>N.O. Rutaceae</i>. It has
bright green leaves and very fragrant rose-coloured flowers.

<hw>Rose-Apple</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the <i>Sweet
Plum</i>. See under <i>Plum</i>.

<hw>Rose-bush</hw>, a timber-tree, <i>Eupomatia laurina</i>,
R. Br., <i>N.O. Anonaceae</i>.

<hw>Rose-hill</hw>, <i>n</i>. The name is given by Gould as
applied to two Parrakeets--

(1) <i>Platycercus eximius</i>, Vig. and Hors., called by the
Colonists of New South Wales, and by Gould, the <i>Rose-hill
Parrakeet</i>.

(2) <i>Platycercus icterotis</i>, Wagl., called by the
Colonists of Swan River, Western Australia, the
<i>Rose-hill</i>, and by Gould the <i>Earl of Derby's
Parrakeet</i>.

The modern name for both these birds is <i>Rosella</i> (q.v.),
though it is more specifically confined to the first.
<i>`Rose-hill</i>' was the name of the Governor's residence
at Parramatta, near Sydney, in the early days of the settlement
of New South Wales, and the name <i>Rosella</i> is a settler's
corruption of <i>Rose-hiller</i>, though the erroneous
etymology from the Latin <i>rosella</i> (sc. `a little rose')
is that generally given. The wo