<hw>Colonial Goose</hw>, <i>n</i>. a boned leg of mutton stuffed with sage and onions. In the early days the sheep was almost the sole animal food. Mutton was then cooked and served in various ways to imitate other dishes.
<hw>Colour</hw>, <i>n</i>. sc. of gold. It is sometimes used with `good,' to mean plenty of gold: more usually, the `colour' means just a little gold, enough to show in the dish.
1860. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 222:
". . . they had not, to use a current phrase, `raised the colour.'"
1890. Rolf Boldrewood. `Miner's Right,' c. xiv. p. 149:
"This is the fifth claim he has been in since he came here, and the first in which he has seen the colour."
1891. W. Lilley, `Wild West of Tasmania,' p. 14:
"After spending a little time there, and not finding more than a few colours of gold, he started for Mount Heemskirk."
<hw>Convictism</hw>, <i>n</i>. the system of transportation of convicts to Australia and Van Diemen's Land, now many years abolished.
1852. J. West, `History of Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 309: