<hw>Swan-River Daisy</hw>, <i>n</i>. a pretty annual plant, <i>Brachycome iberidifolia</i>, Benth., <i>N.O. Compositae</i>, of Western Australia. The heads are about an inch broad, and have bright blue rays, with paler centre. It is cultivated in flower gardens, and is well suited for massing. (`Century.')
<hw>Sweep</hw>, <i>n</i>. a marine fish of the Australian coasts, called by this name in Sydney. It is <i>Scorpis aequipinnis</i>, Richards., family <i>Squamipinnes</i>. This family has the soft, and frequently also the spinous, part of their dorsal and anal fins so thickly covered with scales, that the boundary between fins and body is entirely obliterated. <i>S. aequippinnis</i> is possibly the <i>Light-horseman</i> (q.v.) of early Australian writers.
<hw>Sweet Tea</hw>. See <i>Tea</i>.
<hw>Swift</hw>, <i>n</i>. In Australia, the species of this common bird are—Spine-tailed Swift, <i>Chaetura caudacuta</i>, Lath.; White-rumped S., <i>Micropus pacificus</i>, Lath.
<hw>Swing-gate</hw>, <i>n</i>. Used in its ordinary English sense, but specially applied to a patent gate for drafting sheep, invented by Mr. Lockhart Morton.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c. ix. p. 91:
"Mr. Stangrove . . . has no more idea of a swing-gate than a shearing-machine."
<hw>Sword-grass</hw>, <i>n</i>. In New Zealand, <i>Arundo conspicua</i>; in Australia, <i>Cladium psittacorum</i>, Labill. It is not the same as the English plant of that name, and is often called <i>Cutting Grass</i> (q.v.).
1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' p. 172:
"The great plumes far and wide of the sword-grass aspire."