Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

Great S.—
<i>Carcharias maso</i>.

Hammer-head S.—
<i>Zygaena malleus</i> (Maori name, <i>Mangopare</i>).

Port-eagle S.—
<i>Lamna cornutica</i>

Spinous S.—
<i>Echinorhinus spinosus</i>.

Tiger S.—
<i>Scymnus sp</i>. (Maori name, <i>Mako</i>).

See also <i>Blue-Pointer</i>, <i>Whaler</i>, and <i>Wobbegong</i>.

<hw>Shearer's Joy</hw>, <i>n</i>. a name given to colonial beer.

1892. Gilbert Parker, `Round the Compass in Australia,' p. 22:

"It was the habit afterwards among the seven to say that the officers of the <i>Eliza Jane</i> had been indulging in shearer's joy."

<hw>She-Beech</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Beech</i>.