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Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. {Greener} (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
   superl. {Greenest.}] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
   groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
   gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
   {Grow.}]
   1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
      resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
      between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
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   2. Having a sickly color; wan.
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            To look so green and pale.            --Shak.
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   3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
      as, a green manhood; a green wound.
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            As valid against such an old and beneficent
            government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
                                                  --Burke.
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   4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
      fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
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   5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
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            We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
                                                  Watts.
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   6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced;
      young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or
      judgment.
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            I might be angry with the officious zeal which
            supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
            gray hairs.                           --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
      green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
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   8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
      enviroment; -- of political parties and political
      philosophies; as, the European green parties.
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   {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
      rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
      leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
      United States; -- called also {cat brier}.

   {Green con} (Zool.), the pollock.

   {Green crab} (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
      menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
      named {joe-rocker}.

   {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or
      unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
      crop, etc.

   {Green diallage}. (Min.)
      (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
      (b) Smaragdite.

   {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
      ({Aris[ae]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip;
      -- called also {dragon root}.

   {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
      cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
      as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}.
      

   {Green ebony}.
      (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having
          a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
          work, and in dyeing.
      (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}.

   {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
      green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
      chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
      to which the color of the flame is due.

   {Green fly} (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or
      aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.

   {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary.

   {Green gland} (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in
      Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their
      outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].

   {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.]

   {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
      the West Indies and in South America, used for
      shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
      Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[oe]i}, that of Martinique is
      the {Colubrina ferruginosa}.

   {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite.

   {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima});
      -- called also {green sloke}.

   {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite.

   {Green linnet} (Zool.), the greenfinch.

   {Green looper} (Zool.), the cankerworm.

   {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine.

   {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
      See {Greengill}.

   {Green monkey} (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey
      ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and
      trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
      Indies early in the last century, and has become very
      abundant there.

   {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
      salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
      of platinum.

   {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
      slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.

   {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
      vessel's deck.

   {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis.

   {Green snake} (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes
      ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [ae]stivus}). They are
      bright green in color.

   {Green turtle} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), a common European woodpecker
      ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}.
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Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.
   1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar
      spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
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   2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with
      verdant herbage; as, the village green.
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            O'er the smooth enameled green.       --Milton.
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   3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants;
      wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
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            In that soft season when descending showers
            Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
                                                  --Pope.
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   4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets,
      etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
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   5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
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   {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} (below).

   {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}.
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Mountain \Moun"tain\ (moun"t[i^]n), a.
   1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or
      living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains;
      among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines;
      mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
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   2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
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            The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron.
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   {Mountain antelope} (Zool.), the goral.

   {Mountain ash} (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus
      Americana} (or {Sorbus Americana}), producing beautiful
      bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its
      flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European
      species is the {Pyrus aucuparia}, or rowan tree.

   {Mountain barometer}, a portable barometer, adapted for safe
      transportation, used in measuring the heights of
      mountains.

   {Mountain beaver} (Zool.), the sewellel.

   {Mountain blue} (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite.

   {Mountain cat} (Zool.), the catamount. See {Catamount}.

   {Mountain chain}, a series of contiguous mountain ranges,
      generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves.

   {Mountain cock} (Zool.), capercailzie. See {Capercailzie}.

   {Mountain cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
      cork in its texture.

   {Mountain crystal}. See under {Crystal}.

   {Mountain damson} (Bot.), a large tree of the genus
      {Simaruba} ({Simaruba amarga}) growing in the West Indies,
      which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes
      used in medicine.

   {Mountain dew}, Scotch whisky, so called because often
      illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous]

   {Mountain ebony} (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia
      variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called
      because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and
      in tanning.

   {Mountain flax} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very
      fine fibers; amianthus. See {Amianthus}.

   {Mountain fringe} (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under
      {Fumitory}.

   {Mountain goat}. (Zool.) See {Mazama}.

   {Mountain green}. (Min.)
      (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper.
      (b) See {Green earth}, under {Green}, a.

   {Mountain holly} (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes
      Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries.
      It is found in the Northern United States.

   {Mountain laurel} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia
      latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy
      clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is
      poisonous. Called also {American laurel}, {ivy bush}, and
      {calico bush}. See {Kalmia}.

   {Mountain leather} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
      leather in its texture.

   {Mountain licorice} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Trifolium}
      ({Trifolium Alpinum}).

   {Mountain limestone} (Geol.), a series of marine limestone
      strata below the coal measures, and above the old red
      standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of {Geology}.

   {Mountain linnet} (Zool.), the twite.

   {Mountain magpie}. (Zool.)
      (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
      (b) The European gray shrike.

   {Mountain mahogany} (Bot.) See under {Mahogany}.

   {Mountain meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite,
      occurring as an efflorescence.

   {Mountain milk} (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of
      lime.

   {Mountain mint}. (Bot.) See {Mint}.

   {Mountain ousel} (Zool.), the ring ousel; -- called also
      {mountain thrush} and {mountain colley}. See {Ousel}.

   {Mountain pride}, or {Mountain green} (Bot.), a tree of
      Jamaica ({Spathelia simplex}), which has an unbranched
      palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate
      leaves.

   {Mountain quail} (Zool.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx
      pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender,
      plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are
      chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black
      and white; the neck and breast are dark gray.

   {Mountain range}, a series of mountains closely related in
      position and direction.

   {Mountain rice}. (Bot.)
      (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation,
          in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States.
      (b) An American genus of grasses ({Oryzopsis}).

   {Mountain rose} (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary
      flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa
      alpina}).

   {Mountain soap} (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish
      color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.

   {Mountain sorrel} (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria
      digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small
      greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New
      Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray.

   {Mountain sparrow} (Zool.), the European tree sparrow.

   {Mountain spinach}. (Bot.) See {Orach}.

   {Mountain tobacco} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica
      montana}) of Europe; called also {leopard's bane}.

   {Mountain witch} (Zool.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the
      genus {Geotrygon}.
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