Part 50 (1/2)

”It's our way up here, you know, to chi-ak each other and our visitors too”

<hw>Cicada</hw>, n an insect See Locust

1895 G Metcalfe, `Australian Zoology,' p 62:

”The Cicada is often erroneously called a locustIt is re whirr, of the males in the heat of summer; nu sound”

<hw>Cider-Tree</hw>, or Cider-Guunnii, Hook, NO Myrtaceae See Gum

1830 Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p 119:

”Specimens of that species of eucalyptus called the cider-tree, fro molassesWhen allowed to remain some time and to ferment, it settles into a coarse sort of wine or cider, rather intoxicating if drank to any excess”

<hw>City</hw>, n In Great Britain and Ireland the word City denotes ”a considerable town that has been, (a) an episcopal seat, (b) a royal burgh, or (c) created to the dignity, like Birham, Dundee, and Belfast, by a royal patent In the United States and Canada, a overned by a mayor and aldermen, and created by charter” (`Standard') In Victoria, by section ix of the Local Government Act, 1890, 54 Victoria, No 1112, the Governor-in-Council h, including the city of Melbourne and the town of Geelong, having in the year preceding such declaration a gross revenue of not less than twenty thousand pounds, a city”

<hw>Clai, a piece of land appropriated forpurposes: then the mine itself

The word is also used in the United States See also Reward-clai-claim

1858 T McCombie, `History of Victoria,' c xiv p 213:

”A fahentered a half-worked claim”

1863 H Fawcett, `Political Economy,' pt iii c vi

p 359 (`OED'):

”The clai”

1887 H H Hayter, `Christmas Adventure,' p 3:

”I decideda claiiven, especially in the dry interior of Australia, to a slight depression of the ground varying in size froth, where the deposit of fine silt prevents the water froround as rapidly as it does elsewhere

1875 John Forrest, `Explorations in Australia,' p 260:

”We travelled down the road for about thirty-three miles over stony plains; many clay-pans ater but no feed”

1896 Baldwin Spencer, `Horne Expedition in Central Australia,'

Narrative, vol i p 17:

”One of thefeatures of the central area and especially ast the loamy plains and sandhills, is the number of clay-pans These are shallow depressions, with no outlet, varying in length from a few yards to half a mile, where the surface is covered with a thin clayeyas rapidly as it does in other parts”

<hw>Clean-skins</hw>, or <hw>Clear-skins</hw>, n unbranded cattle or horses

1881 A C Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol i p 206: