Greek 
Oreekt (grek), v. !. [< Greek, .] To imitate 
the Greeks : with an indefinite it. 
Those were prouerblally said to Greeks it that quaft in 
that fashion. Sandys, Travailes, p. 79. 
Greekess (gre'kes), n. [< Greek + -ess.] A 
female Greek. [Rare.] 
Greekish (gre'kish), a. [Early mod. E. also 
Grekish, Grckysh ; < ME. Grekissch, Grickixi'li, 
Grekisc, < AS. Grecisc, Greccisc, Crecisc (= D. 
Grieksch = MLG. Grekescli OHG. Crehhisc, 
MHG. Kricchisch, G. Griecliisch = Sw. Grrl.-ixk 
= Dan. Grcesk), < Grec, Greek, + -isc, E. -ish 1 .] 
If. Of or pertaining to Greece ; Greek. 
In ower way home wardys, ij myle from Jherusalem, 
we com vnto a cloyster of Grekkys monkes, whose chyrche 
ya of the holy crosse. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 51. 
Venerable Nestor . . . knit all the Greekish ears 
To his experienced tongue. Shak., T. and C., 1. 3. 
2. Of a Greek character or quality; somewhat 
Greek. 
A strange and grekysh kind of writing. 
Aicham, The Scholemaster, p. 157. 
Greekism (gre'kizm), . [< Greek + -ism.] 
Same as Grecism. [Rare.] 
Greekize (gre'klz), . ; pret. and pp. Greekized, 
ppr. Greekizing. [< Greek + -ize.'] Same as Gre- 
cize. [Rare.] 
The earliest writers of France had modelled their taste 
by the Greek, . . . Ian. I, I imbued with Attic literature, 
Greekized the French idiom by their compounds, their 
novel terms, and their sonorous periphrases. 
/. D' Israeli, Amen, of Lit, I. 168. 
Greekling (grek'ling), n. [< Greek + -lingl.] 
A little or insignificant Greek or Grecian. 
Which of the Orceklings durst ever give precepts to De- 
mosthenes? B. Jonton, Discoveries. 
"Ake" also is restored and "ache" turned over to the 
Greeklings. F. A. March, Spelling Reform, p. 25. 
green 1 (gren), a. and . [< ME. grene, < AS. 
grene, ONorth. groene, earliest form groeni = 
OS. groni = OFries. grene = D. groen = MLG. 
grone, LG. gron = OHG. gruoni, MHG. griiene, 
G. grtin, dial, grun = Icel. grcenn (for "groenn) 
= Sw. Dan. gron, green; with formative -ni, < 
AS. growan, E. grow, etc. : see grow. To the 
same root belong prob. grass and perhaps gorse. 
The words yellow and gold, which are sometimes 
said to be ult. akin to green, belong to a differ- 
ent root.] I. a. 1. Of the color of ordinary fo- 
liage, or of unripe vegetation generally; ver- 
dant, See II., 1. 
Ore-tie as the gres & grener hit semed, 
Then grene aumayl on golde lowande brygter. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 235. 
The! seye that it [an oak-tree] hathe ben there sithe the 
beginnynge of the World, and was sumtyme grene, and 
bare leves. Mande villa, Travels, p. 68. 
Only one true green colouring matter occurs in nature, 
viz., chlorophyll, the substance to which the green colour 
of leaves is owing. . . . Another green colouring matter, 
derived from different species of Rhamnus, has been de- 
scribed under the name of Chinese Green. 
Ure, Diet., I. 897. 
The #r<>n-coloured manganates show a continuous ab- 
sorption at the two ends of the spectrum, transmitting in 
concentrated solutions almost exclusively the green part 
of the spectrum. Encyc. Brit., XXII. 377. 
Hence 2. Unripe; immature; not fully de- 
veloped or perfected in growth or condition : 
as applied to meat, fresh ; to wood, not dried or 
seasoned; to bricks and pottery, not fired, etc. 
And many flowte and liltyng home, 
And pipes made of grene corne. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, L 1224. 
The spring is near, when green geese are a-breeding. 
Shak., L. L. L., i. 1. 
It strengthens digestion, excludes surfeits, fevers, and 
physic : which green wines of any kind can't do. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 264. 
We enter'd on the boards : and " Now," she cried, 
"Ye are green wood, see ye warp not." 
Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
The term [bricks] is also applied to the moulded clay 
in its crude and unburned condition, in which state the 
bricks are said to be green. C. T. Davis, Bricks, etc., p. 64. 
3. Immature with respect to age or judgment; 
raw ; unskilled ; easily imposed upon. 
A man must be very green, indeed, to stand this for two 
seasons. Disraeli, Young Duke, iii. 7. 
"What's singing?" said Tom. . . . "Well, you are jolly 
green," answered his friend. . . . "Why, the last six Sat- 
urdays of every half, we sing of course." 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 6. 
A sailor has a peculiar cut to his clothes, and a way of 
wearing them which a green hand can never get. 
B. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 2. 
4. Due to or manifesting immaturity ; proceed- 
ing from want of knowledge or judgment. 
0, my lord, 
You are too wise in years, too full of counsel, 
For my green inexperience. Ford, Fancies, iii. 3. 
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It shew'd but green practice in the lawes of discreet 
Rhethorique to blurt upon the eares of a judicious Par- 
liament with such a presumptuous and over-weening 
Proem. Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
5. New; fresh; recent: as, a green wound; a 
green hide. 
But were thy yeares grcenr, as now bene myne, 
To other delights they would encline. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., February. 
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death 
The memory be green. Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. 
Perhaps good counsel, 
Applied while his despair is green, may cure him. 
Shirley, Hyde Park, v. 1. 
6. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; 
nourishing ; undecayed. 
By diff rent Management* engage 
The Man in Years, and Youth of greener Age. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
To whom the monk : . . . "I trust 
We are green in Heaven's eyes ; but here too much 
We moulder as to things without I mean." 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
7. Pale; sickly; wan; of a greenish-pale color. 
Hath it slept since? 
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale 
At what It did so freely ? Shale. , Macbeth, 1. 7. 
8. Characterized by the presence of verdure : 
as, a green winter. 
A urrfn Christmas makes a fat kirkyard. Old proverb. 
In the pits 
Which some green Christmas crams with weary bones. 
Tennyson, Early Sonnets, ix. 
A green eye, fallow, horse. See the nouns. Board 
OfGreen Cloth. See cloth and green-cloth. Green bait, 
fresh bait, not salted. Green beer. Seebeeri. Green 
bice, a pigment consisting of the hydratedoxid of copper. 
It is now seldom used, and is very undesirable as a color. 
Also called green verditer, Bremen green, Erlau green. 
Green cheese, (n) Cream-cheese, which has to be eaten 
when fresh ; unripe cheese. Children are (or were) some- 
times told that " the moon is made of green cheese " ; and 
this statement, or the supposed belief in it, is often re- 
ferred to as typical of any great absurdity. 
To make one swallow a gudgeon, or beleeve a lie, and 
that the nioone is made of greene-cheese. Florio, p. 73. 
He made an instrument to know 
If the moon shine at full or no ; ... 
Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is, 
And prove that she's not made of green cheete. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, II. iii. 260. 
(6) Same as sage cheese (which see, under cheesei). Green 
Cloth, green table, a gaming-table ; the board at which 
gamblers play with cards and dice : so called because 
usually covered with a green cloth. 
The veteran calls up two Brothers of the Green Cloth 
competent to act as umpires ; and three minutes, fraught 
with mortal danger, are passed in deliberately counting 
the cards as they lie on the cloth, and naming them slowly. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 183. 
His [the merchant's] bales of dirty indigo are his dice, 
his cards come up every year instead of every ten min- 
utes, and the sea is his green-table, . . . and yet, forsooth, 
a gallant man, who sits him down before the baize and 
challenges all comers, ... is proscribed by your modern 
moral world ! Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, ix. 
Green crab, Carcinus manas. A corresponding species 
in the United States is C. granulattts. See cut under Car- 
cinus. Green crop. See crop. Green earth, (a) A 
variety of glauconite. (b) Same as terre verte. Green 
fish, (a) Fresh or undried fish of any kind before being 
cured for the market. (6) A codfish salted but not dried. 
[New Eng. ] Green fog, gland, goods, gram, grass- 
hopper, grease, herring, etc. see the nouns. Green 
grosbeak. Same as greenfinch, l. Green bides. See 
nide~. Green lake, a pigment compounded of Prussian 
blue with some yellow color, generally a vegetable lake. 
Green land, pasture-land. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
Green linnet. Same as greenfinch, 1. Green mant. a 
wild man; a savage; one attired like a savage. See the 
second extract. 
A dance of four swans. To them enter five green men, 
upon which the swans take wing. 
World in the Moon, an opera (1697). 
I have mentioned some of the actors formerly con- 
cerned in the pyrotechnical shows . . . distinguished by 
the appellation of green men ; . . . men whimsically at- 
tired and disguised with droll masks, having large staves 
or clubs, headed with cases of crackers. . . . These preen 
men attended the pageants, and preceded the principal 
persons in the procession to clear the way. 
Strult, Sports and Pastimes, p. 484. 
Green Mountain Boys, the soldiers from Vermont in 
the American revolution, first organized under this name 
by Ethan Allen in 1775. Green Mountain State, the 
State of Vermont. Green pheasant, pollack, sand, 
sandpiper, scrap, etc. See the nouns. Green smalt. 
Same as cobalt green. Green Sunday, Thursday. See 
Sunday, Thursday. ~ Green turtle, ultramarine, etc. 
See the nouns. Green verditer. Same as green bice. 
Green vitriol, iron protosulphate. Green wines. See 
wine. Compare def. 2, above. Green woodpecker. 
See Gecinus and woodpecker. To have a green bon- 
nett. See bonnet. To keep the bones green, to pre- 
serve one in health. [Scotch.] 
Ye might aye have gotten a Sheriffdom, or a Commis- 
sary-ship, amang the lave, to keep the banes green. 
Scott, St. Ronan's Well, x. 
II. ". 1. The color of ordinary foliage ; the 
color seen in the solar spectrum between wave- 
lengths 0.511 and 0.543 micron. According to the 
theory generally accepted by physicists, the sensation of 
green 
pure green is a simple one. This sensation cannot be ex- 
cited alone in a normal eye ; but the spectrum at wave- 
length 0.624 micron, if the light be very much reduced, 
probably excites the sensation with some approach to 
purity. It is a common error to suppose that green is a 
mixture of blue and yellow. This notion arises from the 
observation that a mixture of blue and yellow pigments 
generally gives a green. The reason of this is that the 
color of pigments not having a true metallic appearance 
is that of the light which they transmit; the blue pig- 
ment cuts off the yellow rays and the yellow pigment the 
blue rays, but certain green rays are transmitted by both. 
But blue and yellow lights thrown together upon the ret- 
ina excite a sensation nearly that of white, which may In- 
cline slightly to green or to pink according to the tinge 
of the colors mixed. Green under a high illumination ap- 
pears more yellowish (the sensation being affected by the 
color of brightness), and darkened appears more bluish ; 
this is especially true of emerald and yellowish greens 
(above all, of olive greens), and hardly holds for turquoise- 
green. The terms and phrases below are the common 
names for hues of green, some of them being also names 
of pigments. 
Attir'd in mantles all the knights were seen, 
That gratify'd the view with cheerful green. 
Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 349. 
The green of last summer is sear ! Lowell, A Mood. 
2. A grassy plain or plat ; a piece of ground 
covered with verdant herbage. 
Generides, for to sey yow certeyn, 
Whom that euer he mette vppon the grene, 
flrom his sadill he wente quyte And dene. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.X 1. 3010. 
O'er the smooth enamell'd green. 
Milton, Arcades, 1. 84. 
On the fire-lit green the dance begun. 
Whittier, Bridal of Pennacook, iv. 
3. Specifically, a piece of grass-land in a vil- 
lage or town, belonging to the community, be- 
ing often a remnant of ancient common lands, 
or, as is usual in the United States, reserved 
by the community for ornamental purposes ; a 
small common. 
The village of Livingston lay at the Junction of four 
streets, or what had originally been the intersection of 
two roads, which, widening at the centre, and having their 
angles trimmed off, formed an extensive common known 
as the Green. S. Judd, Margaret, L 6. 
The village greens which still exist in many parts of the 
country [England] may fairly be regarded as a remnant of 
old unappropriated common land. 
F. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 39. 
4. pi. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other 
plants ; wreaths. 
The fragrant greens I seek, my brows to bind. 
Dryden. 
In that soft season when descending showers 
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. 
Pope. 
5. pi. The leaves and stems of young plants 
used in cookery or dressed for food, especially 
plants of the cabbage kind, spinach, etc. 
Behold the naturalist who in his teens 
Found six new species in a dish of greens. 
O. W. Holmes, A Modest Request. 
I would recommend examination of the bacon. . . . 
Preparation of the greens will further become necessary. 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, iii. 4. 
6. pi. In sugar-manitf., the syrup which drains 
from the loaves. The last greens, after three suc- 
cessive crystallizations of sugar, are purified, and form the 
golden syrup of commerce. Aldehyde green, a coal-tar 
color used in dyeing, prepared by the action of aldehyde on 
magentadissolved in sulphuric acid ; the blue solution thus 
obtained is poured into a boiling solution of sodium hypo- 
sulphite. It is applicable only to silk and wool, and is now 
seldom used, being replaced by other aniline greens. Al- 
kali green, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, derived from 
diphenylamine by the benzaldehyde-green process. It is 
applicable to wool and silk. Anthracene green. Same 
tacerulein, 2. Araandon green. Saweasenirrald-green. 
Baryta green. Smmeaxmanganese green. Benzalde- 
hyde green, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, derived from 
dimethyl-aniline. It is the hydrochlorid of tetramethyl- 
diamido-triphenyl-carbinol. It appears in commerce as 
various salts or zinc double salts of the color-base, and is 
sold under a variety of names. It is applicable to cotton, 
wool, and silk. Also called benzal green, benzoyl green, fast 
greeit.solid green, Victoria green. Bladder-green. Same 
as sap-green. Bremen green. Same &sgrm-n bice (which 
see, under greeni , a. ). Bronze-green, a colorin imitation 
of antique bronze, or of the colors produced on bronze by 
exposure to the weather. It is produced chemically upon 
brass or bronze by exposing the surface, after cleaning and 
polishing, to the action of acids. Brunswick green, 
copper oxychlorid, Cu 4 O 3 Cl 2 , produced commercially by 
boiling a solution of copper sulphate with a small quan- 
tity of bleaching-powder. It is a light-green powder used 
as a pigment. Cassel green. Same as manganese green. 
Casselmann's green, a compound of copper sulphate 
with potassium or sodium acetate. Chinese green, a 
pigment obtained from Rhamnvs chlttropliorits and R. 
iitilii. Chromium-green. Same as chrome-green. Co- 
balt green, a permanent green pigment prepared by pre- 
cipitating a mixture of the sulphates of zinc and cobalt 
with sodium carbonate and igniting the precipitate after 
thorough washing. Alsocalled Rinman's green, zinc green, 
Saxony green, and green smalt. Crystallized green. 
Same as iodine green. Eisner's green, a pigment pre- 
pared by precipitating the coloring matter of yellow dye- 
wood with hydrated oxid of copper. [Not in use.] 
Emerald-green, highly chromatic and extraordinarily 
luminous green, of the color of the spectrum at wave- 
length 0.524 micron, or of Schweinfurt green. It recalls 
