1891. `The Argus,' Dec. 19, p. 4, col. 2:
"The thick-leaved noon-flower that swings from chalk cliffs and creek banks in the auriferous country is a delectable salad."
<hw>Norfolk Island Pine</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Pine</i>.
<hw>Note</hw>, <i>n</i>. short for Bank-note, and always used for a one-pound note, the common currency. A note = L1.
1864. J. Rogers, `New Rush,' pt. ii. p. 28:
"A note's so very trifling, it's no sooner chang'd than gone;
For it is but twenty shillings."
1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for Mail,' p. 39:
"And even at half fifty notes a week
You ought to have made a pile."
1884. Marcus Clarke, `Memorial Volume,' p. 92:
"I lent poor Dick Snaffle a trotting pony I had, and he sold him for forty notes."