bjects, or to new objects bearing a real or fancied
resemblance to them--as <i>Robin, Magpie, Herring, Cod, Cat,
Bear, Oak, Beech, Pine, Cedar, Cherry, Spinach, Hops, Pea,
Rose</i>.

(2) English names of objects applied in Australia to others
quite different-as <i>Wattle</i>, a hurdle, applied as the name
of the tree <i>Wattle</i>, from whose twigs the hurdle was most
readily made; <i>Jackass</i>, an animal, used as the name for
the bird <i>Jackass</i>; <i>Cockatoo</i>, a birdname, applied
to a small farmer.

(3) Aboriginal Australian and Maori words which have been
incorporated unchanged in the language, and which still denote
the original object--as <i>Kangaroo, Wombat, Boomerang, Whare,
Pa, Kauri</i>.

(4) Aboriginal Australian and Maori words which have been
similarly adopted, and which have also had their original
meaning extended and applied to other things--as <i>Bunyip,
Corrobbery, Warrigal</i>.

(5) Anglicised corruptions of such words--as <i>Copper-Maori,
Go-ashore, Cock-a-bully, Paddy-melon, Pudding-ball,
Tooky-took</i>.

(6) Fanciful, picturesque, or humorous names given to new
Australasian Natural Objects--as <i>Forty-spot, Lyre-bird,
Parson-bird, and Coach-whip</i> (birds); <i>Wait-a-while</i> (a
tangled thicket); <i>Thousand-jacket, Jimmy Low, Jimmy
Donnelly, and Roger Gough</i> (trees); <i>Axe-breaker,
Cheese-wood, and Raspberry Jam</i> (timbers); <i>Trumpeter,
Schnapper and Sergeant Baker</i> (fishes);
<i>Umbrella-grass</i> and <i>Spaniard</i> (native plants), and
so on.

(7) Words and phrases of quite new coinage, or arising from
quite new objects or orders of things--as <i>Larrikin, Swagman,
Billy, Free-selector, Boundary-rider, Black-tracker,
Back-blocks, Clear-skin, Dummyism, Bushed.</i>

(8) Scientific names arising exclusively from Australasian
necessities, chiefly to denote or describe new Natural Orders,
Genera, or Species confined or chiefly appertaining to
Australia--as <i>Monotreme, Petrogale, Clianthus, Ephthianura,
Dinornis, Eucalypt, Boronia, Ornithorhynchus, Banksia</i>.

(9) Slang (of which the element is comparatively small)--
as <i>Deepsinker, Duck-shoving, Hoot, Slushy, Boss-cockie,
On-the-Wallaby</i>.

VI. QUOTATIONS.

With certain exceptions, this Dictionary is built up, as a
Dictionary should be, on quotations, and these are very
copious. It may even be thought that their number is too
large. It is certainly larger, and in some places the
quotations themse