Green

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  Trees on the Green, Ripley
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj green of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass "a green tree","green fields","green paint"
  • adj green not fully developed or mature; not ripe "unripe fruit","fried green tomatoes","green wood"
  • adj green naive and easily deceived or tricked "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
  • adj green looking pale and unhealthy "you're looking green","green around the gills"
  • adj green concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
  • v green turn or become green "The trees are greening"
  • n green street names for ketamine
  • n green green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
  • n green any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
  • n green an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker"
  • n green a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area "they went for a walk in the park"
  • n Green a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
  • n Green an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
  • n Green United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)
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Front cover - black, green and gold decoration

Artifacts found near the site of the Jamestown glasshouse which was in operation as early as 1608: a small melting...

The Old Greene County Game

I'll give you my beautiful Green Umbrella

So he got poor Little Black Sambo's beautiful Green Umbrella

THROUGH EVER-GREEN GLASSES

Nathaniel Greene

Green Ash

• Interesting fact: The sloth moves so slowly that green algae grows in the grooves of their hair
• • Green A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green . "O'er the smooth enameled green ."
  • Green Any substance or pigment of a green color.
  • Green (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the enviroment; -- of political parties and political philosophies; as, the European green parties.
  • Green Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural. "In that soft season when descending showers
    Call forth the greens , and wake the rising flowers."
  • Green Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. "As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation."
  • Green Having a sickly color; wan. "To look so green and pale."
  • Green 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.
  • Green Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. "I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs."
  • Green Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
  • Green Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
  • Green Not roasted; half raw. "We say the meat is green when half roasted."
  • Green Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
  • Green The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
  • v. i Green To become or grow green. "By greening slope and singing flood."
  • v. t Green To make green. "Great spring before Greened all the year."
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• Interesting fact: A U.S. company came out with a toilet night-light that sends out a green warning beacon when the seat is up
• • green Of the color of ordinary foliage, or of unripe vegetation generally; verdant. See II., 1.
  • green Immature with respect to age or judgment; raw; unskilled; easily imposed upon.
  • green Due to or manifesting immaturity; proceeding from want of knowledge or judgment.
  • green New; fresh; recent: as, a green wound; a green hide.
  • green Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; flourishing; undecayed.
  • green Pale; sickly; wan; of a greenish-pale color.
  • green Characterized by the presence of verdure: as, a green winter.
  • green Same as sage cheese (which see, under cheese).
  • green Same as terre verte.
  • green A codfish salted but not dried.
  • n green The color of ordinary foliage; the color seen in the solar spectrum between wavelengths 0.511 and 0.543 micron. According to the theory generally accepted by physicists, the sensation of pure green is a simple one. This sensation cannot be excited alone in a normal eye; but the spectrum at wavelength 0.524 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 pigment 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 retina excite a sensation nearly that of white, which may incline slightly to green or to pink according to the tinge of the colors mixed. Green under a high illumination appears 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.
  • n green A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
  • n green Specifically, a piece of grass-land in a village or town, belonging to the community, being 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.
  • n green plural Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
  • n green plural The leaves and stems of young plants used in cookery or dressed for food, especially plants of the cabbage kind, spinach, etc.
  • n green plural In sugar manufacturing, the syrup which drains from the loaves. The last greens, after three successive crystallizations of sugar, are purified, and form the golden syrup of commerce.
  • green To grow or turn green; in poetical use, to become covered with verdure; be verdurous.
  • green To make green; give or impart a green color to; cause to become green.
  • n green An obsolete form of grin.
  • green To yearn; long.
  • n green In golf: The whole links or golf-course.
  • n green The putting-green, or portion of the links, devoid of hazards, within twenty yards of a hole.
  • n green A name sometimes given to Schweinfurt green.
  • n green An acid dyestuff made by sulphonating the foregoing and designated as azin green S.
  • n green Same as methyl green (which see, under green).
  • n green A basic coal-tar color of the diphenyl-naphthyl-methane type.
  • green In oyster-culture, to give (oysters) a green tinge about the gills by putting them in pits.
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• Interesting fact: In an average lifetime, people spend four years traveling in cars and six months waiting for red light to turn green
• • adj Green grēn of the colour of growing plants: growing: vigorous: new: unripe: inexperienced, simple, raw, easily imposed on: young
  • n Green the colour of growing plants: a small green or grassy plat, esp. that common to a village or town for public or merely ornamental purposes: the plot of grass belonging to a house or group of houses, usually at the back: :
  • n Green (golf) the whole links on which the game is played, the putting-ground round the individual holes, generally counted as 20 yards from the hole all round
  • n Green (pl.) fresh leaves: wreaths: the leaves and stems of green vegetables for food, esp. plants of the cabbage kind, spinach, &c.: a political party at Constantinople, under Justinian, opposed to the Blues
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• Kahlil Gibran

  

  “Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.”
• Edwin Markham

  

  “The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?”
• Francis Bacon

  

  “This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”
• Ray Kroc

  

  “Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?”
• Minna Antrim

  

  “The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.”
• William Shakespeare

  

  “My salad days, when I was green in judgment.”

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