Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GREEN'LY, adv.

With a green color; newly; freshly; immaturely.

GREEN'-MAN-TLED, a.

Covered with green.

GREEN'NESS, n.

1. The quality of being green; viridity; as, the greenness of grass or of a meadow.
2. Immaturity; unripeness; in a literal or figurative sense; as, the greenness of fruit; the greenness of youth.
3. Freshness; vigor. South.
4. Newness.

GREEN'-ROOM, n.

The name given to the retiring room of play actors in a theater.

GREEN'SAND, n.

The lowermost member of the chalk formation. Mantell.

GREEN'-SICK-NESS, n.

A disease of females, characterized by pale, lurid complexion, languor, listlessness, depraved appetite and digestion, and a morbid condition of the catamenial excretion.

GREEN'SNAKE, n.

Two species of Coluber are known by this name, in the United States.

GREEN'-STALL, n.

A stall on which greens are exposed to sale.

GREEN'STONE, n. [so called from a tinge of green in the color.]

A rock of the trap formation, consisting of hornblend and feldspar in the state of grains or small crystals. Ure.

GREEN'-SWARD, n.

Turf green with grass.

GREEN'-WEED, n.

Dyer's weed.

GREEN'WOOD, a.

Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. Dryden.

GREEN'WOOD, n.

Wood when green, as in summer.

GREET, v.i.

1. To meet and salute. There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, / And sleep in peace. Shak.
2. To weep; written by Spenser greit. [Obs.]

GREET, v.t. [Sax. gretan, grettan, to salute, to exclaim, to cry out, to bid farewell, to approach, to touch; G. grüssen; D. groeten, to greet; Sax. grædan, to cry; Goth. greitan, Sw. gråta, Dan. græder, to weep; It. gridare; Sp. and Port. gritar; W. grydian, grydiaw, to shout, to scream or shriek, to wail, to make a vehement rough noise; perhaps L. rudo, to bray, to roar. See Class Rd, No. 7, 19, 43, 70, 75.]

1. To address with expressions of kind wishes; to salute in kindness and respect. My lord, the Mayor of London comes to greet you. Shak.
2. To address at meeting; to address in any manner. Shak.
3. To congratulate.
4. To pay compliments at a distance; to send kind wishes to. Col. iv. 2 Tim. iv.
5. To meet and address with kindness; or to express kind wishes accompanied with an embrace. 1 Thess. v.
6. To meet. Shak.

GREET'ED, pp.

Addressed with kind wishes; complimented.

GREET'ER, n.

One who greets.

GREET'ING, n.

Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; compliment addressed from one absent.

GREET'ING, ppr.

Addressing with kind wishes or expressions of joy; complimenting; congratulating; saluting.

GREEZE, n. [L. gressus.]

A step, or flight of steps. [Obs.] [See Greece.]

GREF'FIER, n. [Fr. See Graft.]

A registrar, or recorder. Bp. Hall.

GRE'GAL, a. [L. grex.]

Pertaining to a flock. Dict.

GRE-GA'RI-AN, a. [See Gregarious.]

Belonging to the herd or common sort. Howell.

GRE-GA'RI-OUS, a. [L. gregarius, from grex, a herd.]

Having the habit of assembling or living in a flock or herd; not habitually solitary or living alone. Cattle and sheep are gregarious animals. Many species of birds are gregarious, Rapacious animals are generally not gregarious.

GRE-GA'RI-OUS-LY, adv.

In a flock or herd; in a company.