Green GREEN, a.
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, n. 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, v.t. 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.
