Green

grēn, adj. of the colour of growing plants: growing: vigorous: new: unripe: inexperienced, simple, raw, easily imposed on: young.— n. the colour of growing plants: a small green or gra y plat, esp. that common to a village or town for public or merely ornamental purposes: the plot of gra belonging to a house or group of houses, usually at the back: ( golf ) the whole links on which the game is played, the putting-ground round the individual holes, generally counted as 20 yards from the hole all round: ( pl. ) fresh leaves: wreaths: the leaves and stems of green vegetables for food, esp. plants of the cabbage kind, spinach, .: a political party at Constantinople, under Just in i an, opposed to the Blues.— ns. Green′back , popular name for the paper money first i ued by the United States in 1862; Green′-cloth , a gaming-table: a department of the royal household, chiefly concerned with the commi ariat—from the green cloth on the table round which its officials sat; Green′-crop , a crop of green vegetables, as gra es, turnips, .; Green′-earth , a mineral of a green colour and earthy character, used as a pigment by painters in water-colours; Green′ery , green plants: verdure.— adj. Green′-eyed , having green eyes: ( fig. ) jealous— Green-eyed monster , jealousy.— ns. Green′finch , Green linnet , a native bird of the finch family, of a green colour, slightly mixed with gray and brown; Green′grocer , a grocer or dealer who retails greens, or fresh vegetables and fruits; Green′-hand , an inferior sailor; Green′-heart , or Bebeeru , a very hard variety of wood found in the West Indies and South America; Green′horn , a raw, inexperienced youth; Green′house , a building, chiefly covered with gla and artificially heated, for the protection of exotic plants, or to quicken the cultivation of other plants or fruit; Green′ing ( Keats ), a becoming green: a kind of apple green when ripe.— adj. Green′ish , somewhat green.— n. Green′ishne .— adv. Green′ly , immaturely, unskilfully.— ns. Green′ne ; Green′room , the retiring-room of actors in a theatre, which originally had the walls coloured green; Green′sand , a sandstone in which green specks of iron occur; Green′shank , a bird of the snipe family, in the same genus as the redshank and some of the sandpipers; Green′-sick′ne , chlorosis (see under Chlorine ); Green′-snake , a harmle colubrine snake common in the southern United States; Green′stone , a rock term, now disused, for any dark-green basic crystalline (trap-rock); Green′sward , sward or turf green with gra ; Green′-tea (see Tea ); Greenth , greenne , verdure; Green′-tur′tle (see Turtle ); Green′-vit′riol (see Vit′riol ); Green′-weed , a name given to certain half-shrubby species of genista; Green′wood , a wood or collection of trees covered with leaves: wood newly cut—also used as an adj. , as in 'the greenwood shade.'— adj. Green′y .— Green in my eye , in a colloquial question=Do I look credulous or easily imposed on?— Green , or Emerald , Isle , Ireland .— Greenstick fracture (see Fracture ). [A.S. gréne ; Ger. grün , Dut. groen , green, Ice. grænn , allied to grow .]