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 32 Gunabăl, a.—Deprived of; having lost a brother by death. An expression used in reply to the question, why is such a one in mourning?

Gunal-yăta, a.—Successful in killing game.

Gunam, s.—An expert marksman.

Gundăk, a.—A husband who has lost his wife's brother by death, is said to be Gundăk.

Gundip, a.—Heavy.

Gundir, s.—A bag of kangaroo skin, about two feet long, by a foot and a half wide, suspended by a piece of leather over the mother's shoulders, and in which the children are carried when not at the breast, from their earliest birth until they are four or even six years old, up to which period the women sometimes suckle their children. The little things are placed standing upright in these bags; and this may partially account for the thin knock-kneed legs of most of the aborigines when grown up. The infants cling with their hands, as well as they are able, to the mother's neck and shoulders; and when sleeping, they rest with their noses pressing against the mother's back, from which, perhaps, that feature takes its broad flat shape; or else with their heads leaning back, and dangling to the parent's motions, in a way that would break any white child's neck.

Gunidi, s.—The swallow, or passage of the throat.

Guning, a.—Stingy; unwilling to give.

Gun-yak, a.—Soft; smooth; as Yurytch gunyak, soft-cheeked.

Gun-yan, s.—The palate. A native will not eat tainted meat, although he cannot be said to be very nice in his food, according to our ideas. Their meat is cooked almost as soon as killed, and eaten immediately.

Gup—An affix to the name of any place or district, implying a person to be an inhabitant of the same; as Kargatta Gup, an inhabitant of Kargatta, or Perth.

Guraga, s.—Tadorma, the mountain-duck.

Gurago, s.—A root eaten by the natives.

Guragor, a.—Old; aged. The word is formed by a repetition of Gorah. Some time ago; as though it were written Gorahgorah; and is applied equally to persons and things It is difficult to ascertain the age of a native; but old age is not frequent.

Gurang, s.—The excrement of the wattle-tree Bardi, or grub; which oozes from under the bark of the appearance and consistence of clear gum.

Gurbal, s.—Cracticus tibicen? Break-of-day-bird; the watchman of Van Diemen's Land. From the topmost bough of a tree it heralds the dawn with a note by no means unmusical.

Gurbitgurbit, s.—Flacunculus leucogaster. Thick-billed butcher-bird.

Gurdăk, a.—Of or belonging to the heart; anxious for; desirous of; as Gabai gurdăk. Thirsty; desirous of water.

Gurdin, a.—Crooked; curled; as Katta gurdin nginnowin; the head being curled; or the hair curling about the head.