Word Meanings - MALACHITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure. Note: Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or
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Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure. Note: Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or azurite, is a related species of a deep blue color. Malachite green. See Emerald green, under Green, n.
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- GREENLANDER
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 - 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 - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - GREENWEED
See GREENBROOM - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - GREENHORN
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving. - GREEN-STALL
A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. - COPPER-FACED
Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type. - GREENISH
Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n. - COPPERWORM
The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm. - GREENBACKER
One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. - GREENGAGE
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. - GREENROOM
The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater. - CONCENTRICITY
The state of being concentric. - COPPER-FASTENED
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. - ELIMINATIVE
Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. - NOMINATIVELY
In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative. - EMANATIVE
Issuing forth; effluent. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - REGNATIVE
Ruling; governing. - COORDINATIVE
Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs. - AYEGREEN
The houseleek . Halliwell. - BRUNSWICK GREEN
An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. - IMPROPERLY
In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. - REPOLISH
To polish again. - SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.