n. [ Aye ever + green. ] (Bot.) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]
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def>A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. --
[ G. Braunschweiger grün, first made at Brunswick, in Germany. ] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Shagreen. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. [ Corrupted fr. colewort. ]
adj. similar to the color of fresh grass.
pos>a. (Bot.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
. Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. or n. [ OE. gaude grene. ] Light green. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
a.
To look so green and pale. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
We say the meat is green when half roasted. L. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Green brier (Bot.),
Green con (Zool.),
Green crab (Zool.),
Green crop,
Green diallage. (Min.)
Green dragon (Bot.),
Green earth (Min.),
Green ebony.
Green fire (Pyrotech.),
Green fly (Zool.),
Green gage, (Bot.)
Green gland (Zool.),
Green hand,
Green heart (Bot.),
Green iron ore (Min.)
Green laver (Bot.),
Green lead ore (Min.),
Green linnet (Zool.),
Green looper (Zool.),
Green marble (Min.),
Green mineral,
Green monkey (Zool.)
Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.),
Green sand (Founding)
Green sea (Naut.),
Green sickness (Med.),
Green snake (Zool.),
Green turtle (Zool.),
Green vitriol.
Green ware,
Green woodpecker (Zool.),
n.
O'er the smooth enameled green. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
In that soft season when descending showers
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Alkali green (Chem.),
Berlin green. (Chem.)
Brilliant green (Chem.),
Brunswick green,
Chrome green.
Emerald green. (Chem.)
Gaignet's green (Chem.)
Methyl green (Chem.),
Mineral green.
Mountain green.
Paris green (Chem.),
Scheele's green (Chem.),
v. t.
Great spring before
Greened all the year. Thomson.
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v. i. To become or grow green. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
By greening slope and singing flood. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One of the legal tender notes of the United States; a note of paper currency of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. Unable to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red.
n. A defect of color vision characterized by inability to distinguish green and purplish-red.
n. [ So named because the bones are green when boiled. ] (Zool.)
n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus
n. A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Green plants; verdure. [ 1913 Webster ]
A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. (Zool.)
n. (Zool.) See Bluefish, and Pollock. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Bot.) A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France
n. (Zool.) An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.)
n. A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat green; having a tinge of green;
prop. n. An island situated between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, the largest island in the world; it is a Danish territory. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
prop. n. A native of Greenland. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the
n.
n.
adv. With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely. --
n. (Finance) The act, performed by a publicly traded corporation, of paying a corporate raider to give up a takeover attempt, by buying the shares of stock he owns; also, the threat posed by corporate raiders to take over a company unless their stocks are purchased by the company at a price giving them a large profit. [ Informal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. [ AS. grēnnes. See Green. ]
n. [ Named after
(grēn"room`), n. The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater. [1913 Webster]
n. (Geol.) A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. (Zool.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also
n. A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ So called from a tinge of green in the color. ] (Geol.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]