terholes have been dragged . . . but without result."

<hw>Water-Lily</hw>. See <i>Lily</i>.

<hw>Water-Mole</hw>, i.q. <i>Platypus</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Water-Myrtle</hw>, an Australian tree, <i>Tristania
neriifolia</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Myrtaceae</i>.

<hw>Water-Tree</hw>, <i>n</i>. a tree from which water is
obtained by tapping the roots, <i>Hakea leucoptera</i>, R. Br.,
<i>N.O. Proteaceae</i>; called also <i>Needle-bush</i>. The
quotation describes the process, but does not name the tree.

1839. T. L. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions,' p. 199:

"I expressed my thirst and want of water. Looking as if they
understood me, they [the aboriginals] hastened to resume their
work, and I discovered that they dug up the roots for the sake
of drinking the sap . . . They first cut these roots into
billets, and then stripped off the bark or rind, which they
sometimes chew, after which, holding up the billet, and
applying one end to the mouth, they let the juice drop into
it."

<hw>Wattle</hw>, <i>n</i>. The name is given to very many of
the various species of <i>Acacia</i> (q.v.), of which there
are about 300 in Australia, besides those in Tasmania and
New Zealand. There is no English tree of that name, but the
English word, which is common, signifies "a twig, a flexible
rod, usually a hurdle; . . . the original sense is something
twined or woven together; hence it came to mean a hurdle, woven
with twigs; Anglo-Saxon, <i>watel</i>, a hurdle." (Skeat.)
In England the supple twigs of the osier-willow are used for
making such hurdles. The early colonists found the long pliant
boughs and shoots of the indigenous <i>Acacias</i> a ready
substitute for the purpose, and they used them for constructing
the partitions and outer-walls of the early houses, by forming
a "wattling" and daubing it with plaster or clay. (See
<i>Wattle-and-dab</i>.) The trees thus received the name of
<i>Wattle-trees</i>, quickly contracted to Wattle. Owing to
its beautiful, golden, sweet-scented clusters of flowers,
the <i>Wattle</i> is the favourite tree of the Australian poets
and painters. The bark is very rich in tannin. (See
<i>Wattle-bark</i>.) The tree was formerly called
<i>Mimosa</i> (q.v.). The following list of vernacular names
of the various <i>Wattles</i> is compiled from Maiden's `Useful
Native Plants'; it will be seen that the same vernacular name
is sometimes applied to several different species--

Black Wattle--
<i>Acacia b