Word Meanings - GREEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. 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. 2. Having a sickly

Additional info about word: GREEN

AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. 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. 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. 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 , a thorny climbing shrub having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; -- called also cat brier. -- Green con , the pollock. -- Green crab , an edible, shore crab 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. Diallage, a variety of pyroxene. Smaragdite. -- Green dragon , a North American herbaceous plant (Arisæma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; -- called also dragon root. -- Green earth , 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 south American tree , having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing. The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony. -- Green fire , a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium , to which the color of the flame is due. -- Green fly , any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants. -- Green gage, See Greengage, in the Vocabulary. -- Green gland , 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. -- Green heart , 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 Rodioei, that of Martinique is the Colubrina ferruginosa. -- Green iron ore dufrenite. -- Green laver , an edible seaweed ; -- called also green sloke. -- Green lead ore , pyromorphite. -- Green linnet , the greenfinch. -- Green looper , the cankerworm. -- Green marble , serpentine. -- Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill. -- Green monkey a West African long-tailed monkey , 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 , a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum. -- Green sand molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made. -- Green sea , a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck. -- Green sickness , chlorosis. -- Green snake , one of two harmless American snakes . They are bright green in color. -- Green turtle , an edible marine turtle. See Turtle. -- Green vitriol. Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron. -- Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. -- Green woodpecker , a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GREEN)

• Immature
• Unripe
• green
• crude
• imperfect
• unfinished
• undeveloped
• Moldy
• Green
• rusty
• fusty
• musty
• over-ripe
• Nascent
• Youthful
• rising
• incipient
• embryo
• rudimental
• budding
• Raw
• Uncooked
• unprepared
• unripe
• unseasoned
• inexperienced
• fresh
• unpractised
• untried
• bare
• bald
• exposed
• galled
• chill
• bleak
• piercing

Related words: (words related to GREEN)

• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
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  A native of Greenland.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• RIS
  A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer.
• EMBRYO SAC
  See EMBRYONIC
• GREENSAND
  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. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• GALLEON
  A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• EMBRYOTOMY
  The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• CHILLINESS
  1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth.
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• EMBRYON
  See EMBRYO
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• RISIBLE
  1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More. 2. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities."
• GALLSTONE
  A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• INCIPIENT
  Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. -- In*cip"i*ent*ly, adv.
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  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• RISQUE; RISQUEE
  Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.
• HORRISONOUS
  Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
  Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv.
• GRISLY
  Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• GRISTMILL
  A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
• SPAGYRIST
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• LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
  The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
• METAPHORIST
  One who makes metaphors.
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• ARTILLERIST
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• TANTRISM
  The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n.
• IMPARISYLLABIC
  Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
• PERISTALSIS
  Peristaltic contraction or action.
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