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bright green in color. — Green turtle (Zoöl.), an edible marine turtle. See Turtle. — Green vitriol.
(a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation
of inks, dyes, mordants, etc. (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron. —
Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked. — Green woodpecker (Zoöl.),
a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); — called also yaffle.
Green
(Green) n.
1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the
blue.
2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
O'er the smooth enameled green. Milton. 3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; — usually in the plural.
In that soft season when descending showers
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. Pope. 4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled
for food.
5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling
emerald green; — called also Helvetia green. — Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin. — Brilliant
green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition. — Brunswick green,
an oxychloride of copper. — Chrome green. See under Chrome. — Emerald green. (Chem.)
(a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used
for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; — called also aldehyde green,
acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride,
with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate. (b) See Paris green — Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment
employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.
— Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a
brilliant yellow luster; — called also light-green. — Mineral green. See under Mineral. - - Mountain
green. See Green earth, under Green, a. — Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder,
consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very
extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of
insects, as the potato bug; — called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald
qreen, and mitis green. — Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a
hydrous arsenite of copper; — called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called
parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green.
Green
(Green), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greened (great): p. pr. & vb. n. Greening.] To make green.
Great spring before
Greened all the year. Thomson. Green
(Green), v. i. To become or grow green. Tennyson.
By greening slope and singing flood. Whittier.
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