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of their barbs. This is one of those customs which seem to point to a superior system of polity, beyond anything to be expected among a people so immersed as the aborigines now are in ignorance and barbarism.
Mordăk, a.—Deep; steep, or high.
Mordakăkănan, a. v.—To drown.
Mordakălap—To be drowned.
Mordibăng, a.—Unable to do anything; whether from being tired, or any other cause of inability.
Mordo, s.—A mountain. See Kattamordo.
Morh-ragadăk, s.—To-morrow.
Moro, s.—Tail; Os coccygis, the lowest of the spinal vertebræ.
Morh-rogodo, s.—To-morrow.
Moroyt, a.—Stiff; hard as hard clay.
Morytch, a.—Absent.
Morryl. s.—A species of eucalpytus with a rough bark. It splits well for shingles. Found to the eastward.
Moyort, s.—A fish caught in fresh-water pools, by putting a quantity of brush-wood at one end of the pool, and pushing it out to the other, sweeping everything before it.
Moyran, s.—Grandfather; grandmother; grandchild. See Mon-yo for this word, as applied to women.
Munjardo, a.—Overturned; topsy-turvy.
Munjero, a.—Looking on the ground carelessly.
Mudurda, s.—A species of tea tree, or paper-bark tree.
Mulgan—(K.G.S.) Cold.
Mulli, s.—Gum found on the upper part of the Xanthorea flower-stem.
Mulmul—(K.G.S.) In parts.
Multchin, a.—Afraid.
Multchong, s.—A coward; a rascal.
Mulur, s.—A large lake. Fresh-water lakes are not numerous in the interior. A chain of them runs parallel to the coast for a long distance, a few miles back.
Mul-ya, s.—The nose.
Mul-yabin, a.—Offended; sulky.
Mul-ya bunan, or punăn, s.—The nostrils.
Mul-ya mel, s.—The countenance; literally, nose and eyes.
Mul-yak, s.—The first of anything; the commencement of an action; the head of a lake.
Mul yarijow, v.—To sneeze.
Mul-yaritch, s.—A sneeze; the act of sneezing.
Mul-yat, s.—The small bone of the kangaroo's leg, worn by youths through the cartilage of the nose, as a mark of their having attained the years of puberty.
