greenhorn 
horns are immature. Greenhorn (ME. Greyne 
horn) is applied to an ox in the "Towneley 
Mysteries."] A raw, inexperienced person; 
one unacquainted with the world or with local 
customs, and therefore easily imposed upon. 
Not such a greenhorn as that, answered the boy. 
T. Hook, Gilbert Ourney. 
greenhornism (gren'hdrn-izm), n, [< green- 
horn + -ism.'] The character or actions of a 
greenhorn. [Bare.] 
He execrated the greenhornism which made him feign 
a passion and then get caught where he meant to cap- 
ture. Disraeli, Young Duke, iv. 6. 
greenhouse (gren'hous), n. 1. A building, the 
roof and one or more sides of which consist of 
glazed frames, constructed for the purpose of 
cultivating exotic plants which are too tender 
to endure the open air during the colder parts 
of the year. The temperature is generally kept up by 
means of artificial heat. It differs from a conservatory 
chiefly in that it is built to receive plants growing in pots 
and tubs, while those contained in a conservatory, in the 
proper use of the term, are grown in borders and beds ; but 
in common use the latter name is applied to a greenhouse 
attached to a dwelling especially for the display of plants. 
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too ; . . . 
There blooms exotic beauty, warm and snug, 
While the winds whistle, and the snows descend. 
Camper, Task, 111. 566. 
2. In ceram., a house in which green or un- 
fired pottery is dried before being submitted 
to the fire of the kiln. 
The [bisque] ware being finished from the hands of the 
potter is brought by him upon boards to the green-house, 
so called from its being the receptacle for ware in the 
"green " or unfired state. Ure, Diet, III. 614. 
Greenian (gre'ni-an), a. K Green (see def.) + 
-ian.] Pertaining to the English mathemati- 
cian George Green (1793-1841) Greenian func- 
tion, a function of a class introduced by Oreen. These 
functions satisfy Laplace's equation and serve to represent 
the distribution of electricity on an ellipsoid. 
greening (gre'ning), n. [Verbal n. of green 1 , 
.] 1. A becoming or growing green. 
The tender greening 
Of April meadows. Keats, Sleep and Poetry. 
In it [acid nitrate] the blacks acquire the wished-for 
solidity, and those even which had turned green are ren- 
dered incapable of greening. Ure, Diet., IV. 71. 
Specifically 2. In oyster-culture, the process 
of becoming or the state of being green-gilled. 
See green-gilled. 3. Any variety of apple of 
which the ripe skin has a green color. The 
Rhode Island greening is the most prized in 
the United States. 
greening-weed (gre'ning-wed), . Same as 
green-broom. 
greenish (gre'nish). a. [< green 1 + -ish 1 ."] 1. 
Somewhat green; having a tinge of green: as, 
a greenish yellow. 
All lovely Daughters of the Flood thereby, 
With goodly greenish locks, all loose untyde. 
Spenser, Prothalamion, 1. 22. 
2. Somewhat raw and inexperienced. 
Greenlander (greu'lan-der), n. [= D. Groen- 
lander = G. Gronldnder, after Dan. Gronlcender, 
Sw. Gronlandare, Icel. Grcenlendingar, pi., orig. 
the Norse settlers in Greenland, now including 
the native Eskimos; < Greenland, D. Greenland, 
G. Dan. Sw. Gro'nland, Icel. Grcenaland, Green- 
land, the 'green land': so called from the green- 
ness of the part first visited in 983.] An in- 
habitant of Greenland, a large island in the arc- 
tic regions, belonging to Denmark, northeast 
of and nearly adjoining North America, and 
settled only along the west coast, the interior 
and east coast being covered with ice and snow. 
The prehistoric nets of the Greenlanders are no evidence 
of an original Eskimo custom. 
Amer. Anthropologist, I. 334. 
Greenland falcon. See falcon. 
Greenlandic (gren-lan'dik), a. [< Greenland 
(see Greenlander) + -ic.~\ Pertaining to Green- 
land, to its people, or to their language. 
The modern Greenlandic alphabet. Science, X 287. 
Greenlandish (gren 'Ian -dish), a. [< Green- 
land (see Greenlander) + -feM.] Pertaining to 
Greenland. 
green-laver (gren'la' / ver), n. A popular name 
for Ulva Lactuca, an edible seaweed. Also 
called sea-lettuce and green-sloke. 
greenlet (gren'let),n. [< green 1 + -let. Cl. vireo, 
of like meaning.] 1. A bird of the family Vire- 
onid<e, small migratory insectivorous birds pe- 
culiar to America, of which the characteristic 
color is greenish or olive ; a vireo. There are sev- 
eral genera and numerous species, four of them among 
the commonest birds of the eastern United States, and 
sweet songsters. The red-eyed greenlet is Vireo olioaceus; 
the warbling greenlet Is V. gilms; the white-eyed green- 
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Red-eyed Greenlet ( Virea olnracttts i. 
let is V. nooeboracensix ; the blue-headed greenlet is V. 
solitariug. See Vireonidae. 
2. Some other small greenish bird. 
Among Bornean forms which do not seem to have made 
their way into the other Philippines are the two beautiful 
genera of greenlets. Amer. Naturalist, XXII. 144. 
greenling (gren'ling), n. [< green 1 + -ling 1 ."] 
The coafiisn or pollock. [Local, Eng.] 
greenlyt, a. [< green 1 + -ly 1 .] Green. 
And make the greenly ground a drinking cup 
To sup the blood of murder'd bodies up. 
Oaieoigne, Jocasta, ii. 2 (cho.). 
greenly (gren'li), adv. [< green 1 + -fy 2 .] 1. 
With a green color; newly; freshly; immature- 
ly. 2. Unskilfully ; in the manner of a green 
hand. 
And we have done but greenly 
In hugger-mugger to inter him. 
Shale., Hamlet, Iv. 5. 
He, greenly credulous, shall withdraw thus. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
I must assist you, I reckon, for you are setting very 
greenly about this gear. Scott, Monastery, xxx. 
greenness (gren'nes), . [< ME. grenenesse, 
grennes, grenes, < AS. grennes, < grene, green: 
see green 1 .] 1. The quality of being green in 
color; verdantness; also, verdure. 
This country seemed very goodly and delightsome to 
all of vs, in regard of the greennfuse and beauty thereof. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 399. 
Massive trunks of oak, veritable worlds of mossy vege- 
tation in themselves, with tufts of green velvet nestled 
away in their bark, and sheets of greenness carpeting their 
sides. H . B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 485. 
Beneath these broad acres of rain-deepened greenness a 
thousand honored dead lay buried. 
H. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 27. 
2. The state of being green, in any of the de- 
rived senses. 
If any art I have, or hidden skill, 
May cure thee of disease or fester'd ill, 
Whose grief or greenness to another's eye 
May seem unpossible of remedy, 
I dare yet undertake it. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, ii. 2. 
This prince, while yet the errors in his nature were ex- 
cused by the greenness of his youth, which took all the 
fault upon itself, loved a private man's wife. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
Captain Browne was a tall, upright, florid man, a little 
on the shady side of lift, but carrying his age with a 
cheerful greenness. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 50. 
greenockite (gre'npk-it), n. [After its discov- 
erer, Lord Greenock, eldest son of Earl Cath- 
cart.] Native cadmium sulphid, a rare min- 
eral occurring in hemimorphic hexagonal crys- 
tals of a honey-yellow or orange-yellow color, 
and also as a pulverulent incrustation on spha- 
lerite. 
greenovite (gre'no-vit), n. [So called after 
George Bellas Greenough, an English geologist 
(died about 1855).] A manganesian variety 
of titanite or sphene baying a rose-red color, 
found at St. Marcel in Piedmont. 
greenroom (gren'rom), n. [So called from hay- 
ing been originally painted or decorated in 
green.] 1. A room near the stage in a theater, 
to which actors retire during the intervals of 
their parts in the play. 
The Friday came ; and for the first tune in my life I 
found myself in the greenroom of a theatre it was lit- 
erally a green room, into which light was admitted by a 
thing like a cucumber-frame at one end of it. It was 
matted, and round the walls ran a bench covered with 
faded green stuff, whereupon the dramatis persome de- 
posited themselves until called to go on the stage ; a look- 
ing-glass under the sky-light, and a large bottle of water 
and a tumbler on the chimney-piece, completed the fur- 
niture of this classic apartment. 
T. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, I. ii. 
2. A room in a warehouse where new or green 
cloth is received from the weaving factory. 
3. A room in a medical college where the fac- 
ulty meet to hold examinations, etc. [Cant.] 
greenstone 
green-rot (gren'rot), . A condition of wood 
in which the tissues have a characteristic ver- 
digris-green color. A fungus, Peziza arugitutm, com- 
monly accompanies it, but is not certainly known to be 
the cause. 
green-salted (gren'saFted), a. Salted down 
without tanning : said of hides. 
Oretn saltfil [hides] are those that have been salted and 
are thoroughly cured. C. T. Dams, Leather, p. 55. 
greensand (gren' sand), . A sandstone con- 
taining grains of glauconite, which impart to 
it a greenish hue. There are two sets of strata In 
England to which this name is applied ; one is above the 
gait, the other below it. The greensand is also a forma- 
tion of importance in the United States. It is extensively 
mined in New Jersey for fertilizing purposes, and com- 
monly called marl. The glauconitje is a silicate of iron 
and potash, and this mineral forms sometimes as much 
as 90 per cent, of the greensand, the rest being ordinary 
sand. 
The chambers of the Foraminifera become filled by a 
green silicate of iron and alumina, which penetrates into 
even their finest tubuli, and takes exquisite and almost in- 
destructible casts of their interior. The calcareous matter 
is then dissolved away, and the casts are left, constituting 
a fine dark sand, which, when crushed, leaves a greenish 
mark, and is known as green-sand. 
Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 81. 
greensauce (gren'sas), . 1. The field-sorrel, 
Kumex Acetosella. 2. Sour dock or sorrel 
mixed with vinegar and sugar. Halliwell. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
green-sea (gren'se'), A mass of water ship- 
ped on a vessel's deck, so considerable as to 
present a greenish appearance. 
greenshank (gren ' shangk), n. The popular 
name of Totantis glottis, a common sandpiper 
Greenshank ( Tetanus glottis }. 
of Europe, related to the redshank, yellow- 
shank, and other totanine birds : so called from 
the color of its legs. Also called green-legged 
horseman, whistling snipe, and. cinereous godicit. 
greensick (gren'sik), a. Affected by or having 
greensickness ; chlorotic. 
Those greensick lovers of chalk. 
Mrs. Ritchie, Book of Sibyls. 
greensickness (gren'sik'nes), n. An anemic 
disease of young women, giving a greenish 
tinge to the complexion ; chlorosis. 
I'd have thee rise with the sun, walk, dance, or hunt, . . . 
And thou shalt not, with eating chalk or coals, 
Leather and oatmeal, and such other trash, 
Fall into the green-sickness. 
Fletcher (and another), Elder Brother, i. 1. 
green-sloke (gren'slok), . Same as green- 
laver. 
green-snake (gren'snak), n. One of two dif- 
ferent kinds of grass-snakes of the United 
States, of a bright-green color, uniform over 
all the upper parts (changing to bluish in 
spirits), and of very slender form: (a) Liopeltis 
nernalis (formerly Chlorosnma or Cyclophis mrnalis\ with 
M MMI it h scales, inhabiting the Middle and Northern States ; 
(6) Cyclophis ceMvus (formerly Leptophis <estivus\ with 
carinate scales, inhabiting the Middle and Southern States. 
They are both pretty creatures and quite harmless. See 
cut under Cyclophis. 
green-Stall (gren'stal), . A stall on which 
greens are exposed for sale. 
Green's theorem. Kee theorem. 
greenstone (gren'ston), M. [First used in G. 
(i/riiimti'in): so called from a tinge of green in 
the color.] 1. Any one of various rocks, of erup- 
tive origin, in general older than the Tertiary, 
crystalline-granular in texture, and of a dark- 
greenish color. The essential ingredients of the rocks 
formerly classed under the name of greenstone are tri- 
clinic feldspar and hornblende, with which are associated 
various other minerals in greater or less quantity, and 
especially chlorite, mica, magnetite, and apatite. The 
name is abandoned by some lithologists, but retained by 
