Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GREEK'FIRE, n.

A combustible composition, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. Ure.

GREEK'ISH, a.

Peculiar to Greece. Milton.

GREEK'LING, n.

An inferior Greek writer. B. Jonson.

GREEK'ROSE, n.

The flower campion.

GREEN, a. [Sax. grene; G. grün; D. groen; Dan. grön; Sw. grön; Heb. רענן, to grow, to flourish. Class Rn, No. 7.]

1. Properly, growing, flourishing, as plants; hence, of the color of herbage and plants when growing, a color composed of blue and yellow rays, one of the original prismatic colors; verdant.
2. New; fresh; recent; as, a green wound. The greenest usurpation. Burke.
3. Fresh; flourishing; undecayed; as, green old age.
4. Containing its natural juices; not dry; not seasoned; as, green wood; green timber.
5. Not roasted; half raw. We say the meat is green, when half roasted. Watts. [Rarely, if ever used in America.]
6. Unripe; immature; not arrived to perfection; as, green fruit. Hence,
7. Immature in age; young; as, green in age or judgment.
8. Pale; sickly; wan; of a greenish pale color. Shak.

GREEN, n.

1. The color of growing plants; a color composed of blue and yellow rays, which, mixed in different proportions, exhibit a variety of shades; as, apple green, meadow green, leek green, &c.
2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verbant herbage. O'er the smooth enameled green. Milton.
3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; usually in the plural. The fragrant greens I seek, my brows to bind. Dryden.
4. The leaves and steins of young plants used in cookery or dressed for food in the spring; in the plural. In that soft season, when descending showers / Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. Pope.

GREEN, v.t.

To make green. This is used by Thomson and by Barlow, but is not an elegant word, nor indeed hardly legitimate, in the sense in which these writers use it. “Spring greens the year.” “God greens the groves.” The only legitimate sense of this verb, if used, would be, to dye green, or to change to a green color. A plant growing in a dark room is yellow; let this plant be carried into the open air, and the rays of the sun will green it. This use would correspond with the use of whiten, blacken, redden.

GREEN'BROOM, or GREEN'WEED, n.

A plant of the genus Genista.

GREEN'CLOTH, n.

A board or court of justice held in the counting house of the British king's household, composed of the lord steward and the officers under him. This court has the charge and cognizance of all matters of justice in the king's household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace of the verge, or jurisdiction of the court-royal, which extends every way two hundred yards from the gate of the palace. Johnson. Encyc.

GREEN'CROP, n.

A crop green vegetables, such as artificial grasses, turneps, &c. Cyc.

GREEN'EARTH, n.

A species of earth or mineral, so called; the mountain green of artists. Ure.

GREEN'ED, pp.

Made green.

GREEN'E-RY, n.

A place for green plants.

GREEN'-EY'ED,

Having green eyes; as, green-eyed jealousy. Shak.

GREEN'FINCH, n.

A bird of the genus Fringilla.

GREEN'FISH, n.

A fish so called. Ains.

GREEN'GAGE, n.

A species of plum.

GREEN'GRO-CER, n.

A retailer of greens.

GREEN'HAIR-ED, a.

Having green locks or hair. Mason.

GREEN'HOOD, n.

A state of greenness. Chaucer.

GREEN'HORN, a.

A raw youth.

GREEN'HOUSE, n.

A house in which tender plants are sheltered from the weather, and preserved green during the winter or cold weather.

GREEN'ING, n.

An apple.

GREEN'ISH, a.

Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. Newton.

GREEN'ISH-NESS, n.

The quality of being greenish.