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▪ I. Murray1|ˈmʌrɪ|
Any of the series of guide-books, or of time-tables of all railway trains running in Great Britain, issued by John Murray (1808–92) or by his successors. Also in the possessive, and fig. So ˈMurray-less a.
1845Thackeray Leg. Rhine in G. Cruikshank's Table-Bk. Sept. 198 Crowds of English,..armed with Murray's guide-books. 1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain viii. 86 A solitary wanderer..can read the book of Spain..dwelling on what he likes, and skipping what he does not, as with a red Murray. 1847[see bradshaw]. 1862Mrs. Gaskell Let. 23 July (1966) 927 We stopped all night in a clean hotel... It is not down in Murray, but ought to be for its cleanliness, civility, and moderate charges. 1864Daily Tel. 26 Sept. 5/1, I hope he found his ‘Murray’ again, for one would not willingly see him wandering..Murray-less and unguarded. 1885Ruskin Præterita i. vi. 183 Murray..did not exist in those days; the courier was a private Murray. 1898H. G. Wells Let. 22 Jan. in G. Gissing & H. G. Wells (1961) 77 The more I see of these Murrays the more I settle to Rome. 1925A. Huxley Along the Road i. 42 Old guide-books..make excellent travelling-companions. An early Murray is a treasure. 1961Economist 18 Mar. 1047/2 Murray's ABC Time-Table (now a pocketbook..) which sells 75,000 monthly in its two editions for Glasgow and Edinburgh. 1961E. M. Forster Alexandria (ed. 3) p. xv, I have always respected guidebooks—particularly the earlier Baedekers and Murrays.
▪ II. ˈMurray2
The name of the main river of a large river-system of south-eastern Australia, used attrib. to designate plants or animals native to this region, as Murray cod, a large carnivorous food-fish, Maccullochella macquariensis, of the family Serranidæ; Murray lily, a bulbous plant, Crinum flaccidum, belonging to the family Amaryllidaceæ and bearing white, lily-like flowers; also called the Darling lily; Murray perch = callop; Murray (river) pine, a cypress pine, Callitris glauca.
1875Encycl. Brit. III. 112/2 A very fine fresh-water fish is the Murray cod. 1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxiv. 301 The Murray and the Darling and their tributaries contain a certain large, sluggish fish, which rather reminds one of a big carp, very delicious... They call him the Murray cod. 1952D. Stivens in Coast to Coast 1951–2 The bunyip..was about ten feet long with a body like a Murray cod with gleaming golden-yellow scales. 1966Murray cod [see callop].
1877F. von Müller Introd. Botanic Teachings xx. 119 This showy genus Crinum furnishes also Victoria with a beautiful species, the Murray Lily (Crinum flaccidum), not however to be found away from the Murray-River southward. 1962J. H. Willis Handbk. to Plants in Victoria I. 326 Murray Lily (Darling Lily, Macquarie Crinum)..on a few sandy inundated flats along the Murray R. flood-plain.
1880G. Walch Victoria in 1880 124 (Morris), Our noble old 1400-mile river, the Murray..produces..that finny monster, the Murray cod, together with his less bulky, equally flavourless congener, the Murray perch. 1951T. C. Roughley Fish Austral. 147 In New South Wales it [sc. the callop, Plectroplites ambiguus] was until recently referred to as golden perch or yellowbelly,..in Queensland and Western Australia as Murray perch.
1877F. von Müller Introd. Bot. Teachings 38 Frenela or Callitris verrucosa,..known by the name Murray-Pine. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 4 Jan. 17 Is nothing to be done in methodical reafforestation with Murray pine... A beautiful timber white-ant and rot resistant, and its dark rosewood heart and soft cream subcortical layers. 1951Dict. Gardening (R. Hort. Soc.) I. 362/1 C[allitris] glauca. Murray River Pine. Up to 100 ft... Widely distributed. The wood is in constant use in Australia. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 100 The solitary Murray Pine in the college paddock was flinging itself about like a windjammer in a gale. 1967A. M. Blombery Guide to Native Austral. Plants 225 Murray Pine. A tree with spreading light-green branches, and cones tending to be longer than broad when ripe. |