ill cost L12,800,000."

1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. 367:

"`Runs,' land claimed by the squatter as sheep-walks, open, as
nature left them, without any improvement from the squatter."

1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 78:

"The runs of the Narran wide-dotted with sheep,
And loud with the lowing of cattle."

1864. W. Westgarth, `Colony of Victoria,' p. 273:

"Here then is a squatting domain of the old unhedged stamp.
The station or the `run,' as these squatting areas are called,
borders upon the Darling, along which river it possesses a
frontage of thirty-five lineal miles, with a back area of 800
square miles."

1868. J. Bonwick, `John Batman, Founder of Victoria,' p. 34:

"The desire of some to turn Van Diemen's Land into a large
squatter's run, by the passing of the Impounding Act, was the
immediate cause, he told us, of his taking up the project of a
poor man's country elsewhere."

1870. `/Delta/,' `Studies in Rhyme,' p. 26:

"Of squatters' runs we've oft been told,
The People's Lands impairing."

1883. G. W. Rusden, `History of Australia,' vol. i. p. 73
[Note]:

"A run is the general term for the tract of country on which
Australians keep their stock, or allow them to `run.'"

(2) The bower of the <i>Bowerbird</i> (q.v.).

1840. `Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' p. 94:

"They are used by the birds as a playing-house, or `run,'
as it is termed, and are used by the males to attract
the females."

<hw>Run-about</hw>, <i>n</i>. and <i>adj</i>.
<i>Run-abouts</i> are cattle left to graze at will,
and the <i>runabout</i>-yard is the enclosure for homing them.

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xviii. p. 218:

"`Open that gate, Piambook,' said Ernest gravely, pointing to
the one which led into the `run-about' yard."

<hw>Run-hunting</hw>, exploring for a new run. See <i>Run</i>.

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c. xix. p. 238:

"What do you say if I go run-hunting with you?"

<hw>Running-Postman</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Tasmanian plant,
i.q. <i>Coral-Pea</i>. See <i>Kennedya</i>.

<hw>Ruru</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for the New Zealand bird,
the <i>More-pork</i>, <i>Athene novae-zelandiae</i>,
Gmel. (q.v.).

1883. F. S. Renwick, `Betrayed,' p. 45:

"The ruru's voice re-echoes, desolate."

<hw>Rush</hw>, v. (1) Of cattle: to charge a man.
Contraction for to <i>rush-at</i>.

1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 122: