1852. Anon, `Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods,' p. 11:
"The poor Australian settler (or, according to colonist phraseology, the Dungaree-settler; so called from their frequently clothing themselves, their wives, and children in that blue Indian manufacture of cotton known as <i>Dungaree</i>) sells his wheat crop."
<hw>Dunite</hw>, <i>n</i>. an ore in New Zealand, so called from Dun mountain, near Nelson.
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand,' p. 56:
"Chrome ore. This ore, which is a mixture of chromic iron and alumina, is chiefly associated with magnesian rock, resembling olivine in composition, named Dunite by Dr. Hochstetter."
<hw>Dust</hw>, <i>n</i>. slang for flour.
1893. Dec. 12, `A Traveller's Note':
"A bush cook said to me to-day, we gave each sundowner a pannikin of dust."
<hw>Dwarf-box</hw>, <i>n</i>. <i>Eucalyptus microtheca</i>, F. v. M. See <i>Box</i>. This tree has also many other names. See Maiden's `Useful Native Plants,' p. 495.
1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. i. c. i. p. 22: