Greekling (n.) A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions.
Green (superl.) 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 (superl.) Having a sickly color; wan.
Green (superl.) Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound.
Green (superl.) Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
Green (superl.) Not roasted; half raw.
Green (superl.) Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
Green (superl.) Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
Green (n.) The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
Green (n.) A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.
Green (n.) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
Green (n.) pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
Green (n.) Any substance or pigment of a green color.
Greened (imp. & p. p.) of Green
Greening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Green
Green (v. t.) To make green.
Green (v. i.) To become or grow green.
Greenback (n.) One of the legal tender notes of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
Greenbacker (n.) One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
Greenbone (n.) Any garfish (Belone or Tylosurus).
Greenbone (n.) The European eelpout.
Green-broom (n.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates.
Greenery (n.) Green plants; verdure.
Green-eyed (a.) Having green eyes.
Green-eyed (a.) Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts.
Greenfinch (n.) A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.
Greenfinch (n.) The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.
Greenfish (n.) See Bluefish, and Pollock.
Greengage (n.) A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
Greengill (n.) An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.
Greengrocer (n.) A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.
Greenhead (n.) The mallard.
Greenhead (n.) The striped bass. See Bass.
Greenhead (n.) Alt. of Greenhood
Greenhood (n.) A state of greenness; verdancy.
Greenhorn (n.) A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.
Greenhouse (n.) A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
Greening (n.) A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.
Greenish (a.) Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.
Greenlander (n.) A native of Greenland.
Green-leek (n.) An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.
Greenlet (n.) l. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.
Greenlet (n.) Any species of Cyclorhis, a genus of tropical American birds allied to the tits.
Greenly (adv.) With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely.
Greenly (a.) Of a green color.
Greenness (n.) The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.
Greenness (n.) Freshness; vigor; newness.
Greenness (n.) Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.
Greenockite (n.) Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
Greenroom (n.) The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
Greensand (n.) A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.
Greenshank (n.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
Green-stall (n.) A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
Greenstone (n.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.
Greensward (n.) Turf green with grass.
Greenth (n.) The state or quality of being green; verdure.
Greenweed (n.) See Greenbroom.
Greenwood (n.) A forest as it appears is spring and summer.
Greenwood (a.) Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade.
Greet (a.) Great.
Greet (v. i.) To weep; to cry; to lament.
Greet (n.) Mourning.
Greeted (imp. & p. p.) of Greet
Greeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Greet
Greet (v. t.) To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.
Greet (v. t.) To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.
Greet (v. t.) To accost; to address.
Greet (v. i.) To meet and give salutations.
Greet (n.) Greeting.
Greeter (n.) One who greets or salutes another.
Greeter (n.) One who weeps or mourns.
Greeting (n.) Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.
Greeve (n.) See Grieve, an overseer.
Greeze (n.) A step. See Gree, a step.
Greffier (n.) A registrar or recorder; a notary.
Gregal (a.) Pertaining to, or like, a flock.
Gregarian (a.) Gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort; common.
\d8Gregarin\91 (n. pl.) An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.
Gregarine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gregarinae.
Gregarine (n.) One of the Gregarinae.
\d8Gregarinida () Gregarinae.
Gregarious (a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
Grege (v. t.) Alt. of Gregge
Gregge (v. t.) To make heavy; to increase.
Greggoe (n.) Alt. of Grego
Grego (n.) A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.
Gregorian (a.) Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name.
Greillade (n.) Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.
Greisen (n.) A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.
Greit (v. i.) See Greet, to weep.
Greith (v. t.) To make ready; -- often used reflexively.
Greith (v.) Goods; furniture.
Gremial (a.) Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.
Gremial (n.) A bosom friend.
Gremial (n.) A cloth, often adorned with gold or silver lace, placed on the bishop's lap while he sits in celebrating mass, or in ordaining priests.
Grenade (n.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies.
Grenadier (n.) Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc.
Grenadier (n.) Any marine fish of the genus Macrurus, in which the body and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called also onion fish, and rat-tail fish.
Grenadier (n.) A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.