n. [ Aye ever + green. ] (Bot.) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

. pl. blue"-green al"gae [ from the color and resemblance to algae. ] any of a group of photosynthetic microorganisms possessing characteristics of both bacteria and plants. When classed as bacteria, they are assigned to the Cyanobacteria; when classed as plants, they are assigned to the Cyanophyta. They are now known to be prokaryotic, and are usually called cyanobacteria in technical contexts. See cyanobacterium. [ PJC ]

def>A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a. [1913 Webster]

[ 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. ] 1. Same as collards{ 1 }. [ Colloq. Southern U. S. ]
Syn. -- collards. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adj. similar to the color of fresh grass.
Syn. -- green, greenish, light-green. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. 1. (Bot.) An evergreen plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration. “The funeral evengreens entwine.” Keble.

. 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. 1. Green with grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Greener superl. Greenest. ] [ OE. grene, AS. grēne; akin to D. groen, OS. grōni, OHG. gruoni, G. grün, Dan. & Sw. grön, Icel. grænn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow. ] 1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a sickly color; wan. [ 1913 Webster ]

To look so green and pale. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Not roasted; half raw. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We say the meat is green when half roasted. L. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. [ 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 ]

7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the enviroment; -- of political parties and political philosophies; as, the European green parties. [ PJC ]

Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub (Emilaz rotundifolia) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also cat brier. --
Green con (Zool.), the pollock. --
Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab (Carcinus menas) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally named joe-rocker. --
Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc. --
Green diallage. (Min.) (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. (b) Smaragdite. --
Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant (Arisæma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also dragon root. --
Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green. --
Green ebony. (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. (b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony. --
Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due. --
Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. --
Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary. --
Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antennæ. --
Green hand, a novice. [ Colloq. ] --
Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the Nectandra Rodiœi, that of Martinique is the Colubrina ferruginosa. --
Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite. --
Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima); -- called also green sloke. --
Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite. --
Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch. --
Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm. --
Green marble (Min.), serpentine. --
Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill. --
Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there. --
Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. --
Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. --
Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. --
Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis. --
Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes (Cyclophis vernalis, and C. æstivus). They are bright green in color. --
Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See Turtle. --
Green vitriol. (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron. --
Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. --
Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green. [ 1913 Webster ]

O'er the smooth enameled green. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

In that soft season when descending showers
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; -- called also Helvetia green. --
Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin. --
Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition. --
Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper. --
Chrome green. See under Chrome. --
Emerald green. (Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green (below). --
Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium. --
Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green. --
Mineral green. See under Mineral. --
Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a. --
Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis green. --
Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Greened p. pr. & vb. n. Greening. ] To make green. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.
Syn. -- deuteranopic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A defect of color vision characterized by inability to distinguish green and purplish-red.
Syn. -- deuteranopia, daltonism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ So named because the bones are green when boiled. ] (Zool.) (a) Any garfish (Belone or Tylosurus). (b) The European eelpout. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 1. Having green eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Seeing everything under the influence of emotions which discolor or distort. “Green-eyed jealousy.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- jealous, overjealous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) 1. A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.) (a) The mallard. (b) The striped bass. See Bass.

{ } n. A state of greenness; verdancy. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

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 scarlet-breasted parrot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool, ) Any species of Cyclorhis, a genus of tropical American birds allied to the tits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1400-1450 ] any spiny-finned food fish of the northern Pacific coasts, of the genus Hexagrammos. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely. -- a. Of a green color. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Freshness; vigor; newness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after Lord Greenock. ] (Min.) Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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 ]

☞Greensand is often called marl, because it is a useful fertilizer. The greensand beds of the American Cretaceous belong mostly to the Upper Cretaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]