2. Having a sickly color; wan.
To look so green and pale. --Shak.
3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
as, a green manhood; a green wound.
As valid against such an old and beneficent
government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
--Burke.
4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
Watts.
6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained;
awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
I might be angry with the officious zeal which
supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
gray hairs. --Sir W.
Scott.
7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
{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} (Zo["o]l.), the pollock.
{Green crab} (Zo["o]l.), 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
({Aris[ae]ma 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} (Zo["o]l.), any green species of plant lice or
aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
{Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary.
{Green gland} (Zo["o]l.), 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 antenn[ae].
{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 Rodi[oe]i}, 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} (Zo["o]l.), the greenfinch.
{Green looper} (Zo["o]l.), the cankerworm.
{Green marble} (Min.), serpentine.
{Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
See {Greengill}.
{Green monkey} (Zo["o]l.) 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} (Zo["o]l.), one of two harmless American snakes
({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [ae]stivus}). They are
bright green in color.
{Green turtle} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), a common European woodpecker
({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}.
2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with
verdant herbage; as, the village green.
O'er the smooth enameled green. --Milton.
3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants;
wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
In that soft season when descending showers Call
forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
--Pope.
4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets,
etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
{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}.
Great spring before Greened all the year. --Thomson.
By greening slope and singing flood. --Whittier.