w</i>, and
<i>Myall</i>.

(2) <i>Dysoxylon fraserianum</i>, Benth.,
<i>N.O. Meliaceae</i>; called also <i>Pencil Cedar</i>.

(3) <i>Eremophila mitchelli</i>, Benth. <i>N.O. Myoporinae</i>;
called also <i>Sandalwood</i>.

1838. T. L. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions,' vol. i. p. 203:

"One or two trees of a warmer green, of what they call
`rosewood,' I believe gave a fine effect, relieving the sober
greyish green of the pendent acacia."

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition' p. 4:

"The Rosewood Acacia of Moreton Bay."

<hw>Rough</hw>, or <hw>Roughy</hw>, or <hw>Ruffy</hw>,
or <hw>Ruffie</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Victorian fish, <i>Arripis
georgianus</i>, Cuv. and Val., family <i>Percidae</i>.
<i>Arripis</i> is the genus of the Australian fish called
Salmon, or Salmon-trout, <i>A. salar</i>, Gunth.
See <i>Salmon</i>.

1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), June 19, 1881:

"Common fish, such as trout, ruffies mullet . . . and others."

1890. `Victorian Statutes--Fisheries, Second Schedule'
[Close Season]:

"Rough, or Roughy."

<hw>Rough Fig</hw>, <i>n</i>. See under <i>Fig-tree</i>.

<hw>Rough-leaved Fig</hw>, <i>n</i>. See under <i>Fig-tree</i>.

<hw>Round</hw>, <i>v. trans</i>., contraction of the verb to
<i>round-up</i>, to bring a scattered herd together; used in
all grazing districts, and common in the Western United States.

1894. `The Argus,' June 23, p. 11, col. 4:

"A friend of mine who has spent many a night rounding the mob
on lonely Queensland cattle camps where hostile blacks were as
thick as dingoes has a peculiar aversion to one plain covered
with dead gums, because the curlews always made him feel
miserable when crossing it at night."

<hw>Round Yam</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Burdekin Vine</i>.
See under <i>Vine</i>.

<hw>Rouseabout</hw>, <i>n</i>. a station-hand put on to any
work, a Jack of all work, an `odd man.' The form `roustabout'
is sometimes used, but the latter is rather an American word
(Western States), in the sense of a labourer on a river boat, a
deck-hand who assists in loading and unloading.

1887. J. Farrell, `How he died,' p. 19:

"It may be the rouseabout swiper who rode for the doctor that
night,
Is in Heaven with the hosts of the Blest, robed and sceptred,
and splendid with light."

18W. `The Argus,' Sept. 20, p. 13, col. 6:

"The `rouseabouts' are another class of men engaged in shearing
time, whose work is to draft the sheep, fill the pens for the
shea