Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.