erson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 45:

"For they waddied one another, till the plain was strewn with
dead,
While the score was kept so even that they neither got
ahead."

<hw>Waddy Wood</hw>, or <hw>White Wood</hw>, <i>n</i>. name
given in Tasmania to the tree <i>Pittosporum bicolor</i>,
Hook., <i>N.O. Pittosporeae</i>; from which the aboriginals
there chiefly made their Waddies.

1851. `Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van
Diemen's Land,' vol. i. p. 156:

"11th October, 1848. . . a sample of a very fine close-grained
white timber, considered by him suitable for wood-engraving
purposes, obtained in a defile of Mount Wellington. It seems
to be the young wood of <i>Pittosporum bicolor</i>, formerly in
high estimation amongst the Aborigines of Tasmania, on account
of its combined qualities of density, hardness, and tenacity,
as the most suitable material of which to make their warlike
implement the waddie."

<hw>Wagtail</hw>, or <hw>Wagtail Fly-catcher</hw>, <i>n</i>.
an Australian bird, <i>Rhipidura tricolor</i>, the
<i>Black-and-white Fantail</i>, with black-and-white plumage
like a pied wagtail. See also quotation, 1896. The name is
applied sometimes in Gippsland, and was first used in Western
Australia as a name for the <i>Black-and-white Fantail</i>.
See <i>Fantail</i>.

1885. R. M. Praed, `Head-Station,' p. 24:

"He pointed to a Willy-wagtail which was hopping cheerfully
from stone to stone."

1896. A. J. North, `List of the Insectivorous Birds of New
South Wales,' pt i. p. 13:

"Salltoprocta motacilloides, <i>Vig. and Horsf</i>. `Black and
White Fantail.' `Water Wagtail.'. . . From this bird's habit
of constantly swaying its lengthened tail feathers from side to
side it is locally known in many districts as the `Willy
Wagtail.'"

<hw>Wahine</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori word for a woman.
The <i>i</i> is long.

1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' vol. i.
p. 29:

"Having enquired how many (wives) the Kings of England had, he
laughed heartily at finding they were not so well provided, and
repeatedly counted `four wahine' (women) on his fingers."

1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), p. 289:

"A group of whyenees and piccaninnies."

1893. `Otago Witness,' Dec. 21, p. 11, col. 5:

"It is not fit that a daughter of the great tribe should be
the slave-wife of the pakeha and the slave of the white wahine."

<hw>Waipiro</hw>, <i>n</i>. Mao