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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... Australian and Bush Slang. Alderman Lushington, intoxicating drink. Beer or liquor of any kind is lush; to lush is to drink. Speaking of a person who is drunk, the "flash" fraternity say, "Alderman Lushington is concerned," or simply "He has been voting for the alderman." A lush-crib, or lush-ken, is a public-house. -- From Vaux's Memoirs. The term is imported into Australia by convicts. Anty-up, a game of ccirds. As they ride up, a savage-looking half-bred bull dog yelps hoarsely, and two or three men creep out from underneath the tarpaulin of the nearest dray, where they have been playing anty-up (a favourite game with cards) for tobacco. John recognises a teamster who has been employed by himself. -- D. Sladen. From ante, the stake with which the dealer at poker commences each hand before dealing the cards; he puts up a "chip" in front of him, hence the name. Make good tIir attte; the dealer, after looking at his hand, must either go out of the game and forfeit his ante, or must make it good by putting up a sum equal to it, so as to make his stake the same as that of the other players. Raising the a tile: any one at the time of "chipping in" to fill his hand may raise the ante, and the other players must then in turn make their stakes equal to the maximum so raised, or else must "run" and abandon what they have already staked. Artesian, colonial beer. People in Gippsland, Victoria, use artesian just as Tasmanians use easeade, in the sense of "beer," because the one is manufactured from the celebrated artesian well at Sale, Gippsland, and the other from the easeade water. Leutzner, Colonial English. I At that, meaning something in addition to, an intensive. Said to have originated in Pennsylvania, America, and to be a translation of...