ENCYCLOPEDIA LONDINENSIS; 
OR, AN 
UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY 
OF 
ARTS, SCIENCES, and LITERATURE. 
G R E 
REEN, adj. Igrun, Germ, groen, Dut.] Having a 
colour formed commonly by compounding blue 
and yellow ; of the colour of the leaves of trees or 
herbs. The green colour is faid to be mod favourable 
to the fight.—The general colour of plants is green, 
which is a colour that no flower is of: there is a greenifli 
primrofe, but it is pale and fcarce a green. Bacon. —Pale ; 
fickly : from whence we call the maid’s difeafe the green 
licknefs, or chlorojis. Like it is Sappho’s : 
Till the green ficknefs and love’s force betray’d 
To death’s remorfelefs arms th’ unhappy maid. Garth. 
Flourilhing ; frefh ; undecayed : from trees in fpring.— 
If I have any where faid a green old age, I have Virgil’s 
authority ; Sed cruda deo virifque fenettus. Dryden. —New ; 
frefh : as a green wound.—A man that ftudieth revenge 
keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwife woutd 
heal and do well. Bacon. 
Griefs are green ; 
And all thy friends, which thou mud make thy friends, 
Have but their flings and teeth newly ta’en out. Shehejp. 
Not dry.—If a fpark of error have thus far prevailed, 
falling even where the wood was green, muft not the 
peril thereof be . greater in men, whole minds are of 
themfelves as dry as fewel ? Hooker. 
0 Being an olive-tree 
Which late he fell’d; and being green, muft be 
Made lighter for his manage. Chapman. 
Not roafted ; half raw.—Under this head we may rank 
thofe words which fignify different ideas, by a fort of 
far-fetched analogy ; as when we fay the meat is green, 
when it is half roafted. Watts's Logic .—Unripe; imma¬ 
ture; young: becaufe fruits are green before they are 
ripe.—If you would fat green geefe, Unit them up when 
they are about a month old. Mortimer. 
O charming youth, in the firft op’ning page; 
So many graces in fo green an age. Dryden. 
GREEN, f. The green colour; green colour of dif¬ 
ferent (hades.—Cinnabar, illuminated by this beam, ap¬ 
pears of the fame red colour as in day-light; and if at 
the lens you intercept the green making and blue making 
rays, its rednefs will become more full and lively. 
Newton. —See the article Colour, vol. iv. p. 789-792. 
See alfo Chromatics, and the article Dying. — A 
gralfy plain: 
The young ASmilia, fairer to be feen 
Than the fair lily on the flow’ry green. Dryden. 
Leaves ; branches; wreaths^ 
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G R E 
With greens and flow’rs recruit their empty hives, 
And feek frelh forage to fuftain their lives. 
Ev’ry brow with cheerful green is crown’d ; 
The feafts are doubled, and the bowls go round. Dryden , 
To GREEN, v. a. To make green. A low word-. 
Great Spring before 
Green'd all the year ; and fruits and bloflbms blulh’d 
In focial fweetnefs on the felf-fame bough. Thomfon. 
GREEN, a county of the American States, in Wafh- 
ington diftridt, ftate of Tenefiee. 
GREEN, a townlhip of the American States, in 
Franklin county, Pennfylvania.—Alfo a townlhip in 
Wafhington county, in the fame ftate. 
GREEN, a poll-town of the American States, in 
Lincoln county, in the diftridt of Maine, fituated on the 
eaft fide of Androfcoggin river, thirty-one miles weft- 
by-fouth of Pittftown, thirty-nine north of Portland, 
and 164 north-by-eaft of Bofton; containing, by the cen- 
fus of 1796, 639 inhabitants. 
GREEN, a navigable river of the American States, 
Kentucky, which rifes in Mercer county, has a gentle 
current, and is navigable nearly 150 miles. Its courfe 
is generally weft; and at its confluence with the Ohio 
is upwards of 200 yards wide. Between the mouth of 
Green river and Salt river, a diftance of nearly 200 miles,, 
the land upon the banks of the Ohio is generally fer¬ 
tile and rich ; but, leaving its banks, the plain country 
is little better than barremJand. On this river are a 
number of faitTprings or licks ; and alfo three fprings 
or ponds of bitumen, which do not form a ftream, but 
empty themfelves into a common refervoir, and, when 
ufed in lamps, anfwers all the purpofes of the bell oil. 
Vaft quantities of nitre are found in the caves on its 
banks; and many of the fettlers manufaiSture their own 
gunpowder. 
GREEN, a river of the American States, which rif<« 
in the town of Marlborough, in Vermont, and falls into 
Connedlicut river above Deerfield, in Maflachufetts. 
GREEN (Matthew), a truly original Englifh poet, 
born at London in 1696. The anecdotes of his life are 
extremely few. It is only known that his parents were 
diflenters in good repute; that he received his educa¬ 
tion among the fedt; and that he obtained a place in the 
cuftom-houfe, the duties of which he difcharged with 
diligence and fidelity. His learning extended only to a 
little Latin ; but from the frequency of his claffical al- 
lufions, it appears that what he read when young, he 
did not forget. The religious aufterity in which he was 
bred had its common effedt of infpiring him with fettled 
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