King James Bible Dictionary

GREEN, adjective

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 blue and yellow rays, one of the original prismatic colors; verdant.

2. New; fresh; recent; as a green wound.

The greenest usurpation.

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.

[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.

GREEN, noun 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 etc.

1. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.

O'er the smooth enameled green

2. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; usually in the plural.

The fragrant greens I seek, my brows to bind.

3. The leaves and stems of young plants used in cookery or dressed for food in the spring; in the plural.

GREEN, verb transitive 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.

GREE'NBROOM

GREE'NCLOTH, noun 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.

GREE'N-CROP, noun A crop of green vegetables, such as artificial grasses, turnips, etc.

GREE'N-EARTH, noun A species of earth or mineral, so called; the mountain green of artists.

GREE'N-EYED, adjective Having green eyes; as green-eyed jealousy.

GREE'NFINCH, noun A bird of the genus Fringilla.

GREE'NFISH, noun A fish so called.

GREE'NGAGE, noun A species of plum.

GREE'N-GROCER, noun A retailer of greens.

GREE'NHAIRED, adjective Having green locks or hair.

GREE'NHOOD, noun A state of greenness.

GREE'NHORN, noun A raw youth.

GREE'N-HOUSE, noun A house in which tender plants are sheltered from the weather, and preserved green during the winter or cold weather.

GREE'NISH, adjective Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as a greenish yellow.

GREE'NISHNESS, noun The quality of being greenish.

GREE'NLY, adverb With a green color; newly; freshly; immaturely.

GREE'NNESS, noun The quality of being green; viridity; as the greenness of grass or of a meadow.

1. Immaturity; unripeness; in a literal or figurative sense; as the greenness of fruit; the greenness of youth.

2. Freshness; vigor.

3. Newness.

GREE'N-SICKNESS, noun The chlorosis, a disease of maids, so called from the color it occasions in the face.

GREE'N-STALL, noun A stall on which greens are exposed to sale.

GREE'NSTONE, noun [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.

GREE'N-SWARD, noun Turf green with grass.

GREE'NWEED , noun A plant of the genus Genista.

GREE'N-WEED, noun Dyer's weed.

GREE'NWOOD,noun Wood when green, as in summer.

GREE'NWOOD, adjective Pertaining to a greenwood; as a greenwood shade.