Green

( Mr. Padding ton ), clerk at Somerset House. Mrs. Padding ton Green , his wife.—T.M. Morton, If I had a You sand a Year . Green ( Verdant ), a young man of infinite simplicity, who goes to college, and is played upon by all the practical jokers of alma mater . After he has bought his knowledge by experience, the butt becomes the “butter” of juveniles greener than himself. Verdant Green wore spectacles, which won for him the nickname of “Gig-lamps.”—Cuthbert Bede [Rev. Edw. Bradley], Verdant Green (1860). Green ( Widow ), a rich, buxom dame of 40, who married first for money, and intended to choose her second husband “to please her vanity.” She fancied Waller loved her, and meant to make her his wife, but Sir William Fond love was her adorer. When the politic widow discovered that Waller had fixed his love on another, she gave her hand to the old beau, Sir William; for if the news got wind of her love for Waller, she would become the laughing-stock of all her friends.—S. Knowles, The Love-Chase (1837). Green Bird ( The ), a bird that told one everything it was asked. An oracular bird, obtained by Fair star after the failure of Cherry and her two brothers. It was this bird who revealed to the king that Fair star was his daughter and Cherry his nephew. Comte e D’Aunoy, Fairy Tales (“Fair star and Prince Cherry,” 1682).