"There being but one member of the interesting Asiatic genus <i>Drongo</i> in Australia, it was thought best to characterize it simply as the <i>Drongo</i> without any qualifying term."
<hw>Drop</hw>, <i>n</i>. (Slang.) To "have the drop on" is to forestall, gain advantage over, especially by covering with a revolver.
It is curious that while an American magazine calls this phrase
Australian (see quotation), the `Dictionary of Slang'—one
editor of which is the distinguished American, Godfrey
C. Leland—says it is American. It is in common use in
Australia.
1894. `Atlantic Monthly,' Aug., p. 179.
"His terrible wife, if we may borrow a phrase from Australia, `had the drop on him' in every particular."
<hw>Drooping Acacia</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Acacia</i>.
<hw>Drove</hw>, <i>v</i>. to drive travelling cattle or sheep.
1890. A. J. Vogan, `Black Police,' p. 334:
"I don't know how you'd be able to get on without the `boys' to muster, track, and drove."
1896. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River' [Poem `In the Droving Days'], p. 95: