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Greenn.2

Brit. /ɡriːn/, U.S. /ɡrin/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Green.
Etymology: < the name of George Green (1793–1841), British mathematical physicist.
Mathematics.
1. Green's theorem n. a theorem relating a line integral around a closed curve to a double integral over the region bounded by the curve, or a double integral over a closed surface to a triple integral over the volume bounded by the surface.Green's theorem is a special case of Stokes' theorem (for curves in the plane), and of the divergence theorem (for functions of two variables). A common representation is ∫∫SF · i dS = ∫∫∫V∇ · F dV, where i is a unit vector normal to dS.The theorem was described by Green in his book Ess. Applic. Math. Anal. Theories Electr. & Magnetism (1828).
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > proposition > theorem > specific theorem > relating to functions
Taylor's theorem1816
Maclaurin's theorem1820
Leibniz theorem1852
Green's theorem1857
Laurent's theorem1893
factor theorem1894
factor law1901
1857 W. Thomson in Proc. Royal Soc. 8 126 The demonstration of Green's theorem to which I have referred.
1893 O. Heaviside Electromagn. Theory I. iii. 204 That there is no other solution may be proved analytically by Green's Theorem.
1946 Amer. Math. Monthly 53 359 If the hypothesis is that f(z) ∈ C1, the proof is based on Green's theorem (for rectangles only).
2009 J. Stewart Calculus xiii. 934 Green's Theorem should be regarded as the counterpart of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for double integrals.
2. Green function n. (also Green's function) a kind of function used in solving non-homogeneous differential equations.
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the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > function
function1758
exponential1784
potential function1828
syzygy1850
permutant1852
Green function1863
theta-function1871
Greenian1876
Gudermannian1876
discriminoid1877
Weierstrassian function1878
gradient1887
beta function1888
distribution function1889
Riemann zeta function1899
Airy integral1903
Poisson bracket1904
Stirling approximation1908
functional1915
metric1921
Fourier transform1923
recursive function1934
utility function1934
Airy function1939
transfer function1948
objective function1949
restriction1949
multifunction1954
restriction mapping1956
scalar function1956
Langevin function1960
mass function1961
1850 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1847–50 4 461 Six different constants or coefficients..which would make function (1) identical with Mr. Green's function for light.]
1863 G. G. Stokes in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancement Sci. 1862 282 I have been thus particular in deducing the form of Green's function which belongs to Cauchy's expressions.
1897 A. G. Webster Theory Electr. & Magn. ii. vii. 292 Suppose that G is Green's function for a certain space, with the pole P, whose co-ordinates are a, b, c.
1936 E. J. Berg Heaviside's Operational Calculus (ed. 2) xxi. 110 If we multiply a continuous function of D—say, f (D )—by a Green's function, which is an impulsive function that exists only at D = y, the product is zero except at the particular point, where it is infinite.
1982 IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation 30 1003/2 We found dyadic Green functions convenient in deriving variationally invariant expressions for the scattering amplitude.
2004 K. Nakamura & T. Harayama Quantum Chaos & Quantum Dots iv. 44 We shall proceed to express the general Green function G(r′, r; E) under the Dirichlet boundary condition.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

greenadj.n.1

Brit. /ɡriːn/, U.S. /ɡrin/
Forms: early Old English groeni, Old English groene (Northumbrian), Old English–1600s grene, late Old English græne, late Old English grane, Middle English greine, Middle English griene, Middle English grone, Middle English–1500s grenne, Middle English–1500s greyn, Middle English–1500s greyne, Middle English–1500s gryne, Middle English–1600s greene, Middle English–1600s gren, Middle English– green, 1500s greane, 1500s grenn, 1500s grien, 1600s creen (in representations of Welsh English), 1800s– grein (English regional (south-west midlands)), 1800s– grin (English regional (south-western)); Scottish pre-1700 greene, pre-1700 greine, pre-1700 gren, pre-1700 grene, pre-1700 greyn, pre-1700 greyne, pre-1700 grien, pre-1700 griene, pre-1700 gryne, pre-1700 1700s grein, pre-1700 1700s– green, 1900s– grøn (Shetland), 1900s– grün (Shetland). N.E.D. (1900) also records a form Middle English grenn.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian grēne , grēn green, fresh, Middle Dutch groene , groen , grone , grune green, fresh, youthful, inexperienced, (of food) raw, untreated, also groene , groen , grone , grune (noun) green, greenness, greenery, verdure, grassy ground, vegetables, greens, green fabric (Dutch groen ), Old Saxon grōni green (Middle Low German grȫne green, (as noun) green, greenness, greenery, verdure, grassy ground, fruit, vegetables, greens), Old High German gruoni , gruone , gruani , cruone green (as the colour of plants, some precious stones, the sea), fresh, healthy, (of food) raw, untreated, also gruonī (noun) green, greenness, greenery, verdure, health, vigour (Middle High German grüene , German grün ), Old Icelandic grœnn green (as the colour of verdure, etc.), fresh, hopeful, good, Old Swedish grön green, fresh, new (Swedish grön ), Old Danish grøn green, fresh (Danish grøn ), a derivative formation < the Germanic base of grow v.As shown by the (selective) glosses given above, the associations with verdure, freshness, newness, health, and vitality are widespread among the Germanic languages. The developments shown by sense A. 3 show a quite different and somewhat contrary development, and probably result in large part ultimately from association with ancient Greek χλωρός green, pale (see chloro- comb. form1) and with ancient and medieval medical traditions; compare classical Latin viridis ‘green’ used of a ‘greenish’ complexion taken as a sign of illness or excess of bile. Attested earlier in place names (in sense B. 3a), as Manegrena , Norfolk, lit. ‘common green’ (1086; now Mangreen), le Spitelgrene , North Riding, Yorkshire (12th cent.; now lost), etc.; also very common in surnames in this sense, as Geoffrey de Grene (1188), Willelmus de la Grene (1193), Galfridus Attegrene (1206), Petr. Atte Grene de Griston (c1311), Adam othe Grene (1327), etc. In sense B. 4b after classical Latin prasinus, denoting this faction, use as noun of masculine of prasinus leek-green (see prasine adj.); compare classical Latin prasina factiō ‘leek-green faction’.
A. adj.
I. With reference to colour.
1. Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc.Green light has a wavelength in the approx. range 500 to 575 nm.Frequently with prefixed nouns or adjectives denoting a particular shade. apple, bottle-, dark, emerald-, grape-, grass-, lettuce, olive-, pea-, sea-green: see the first element. See also sense B. 4a.
a. Designating growing vegetation, grass, etc.
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 85 Carpassinum, grene gærs.
OE Genesis A (1931) 1137 [Sethes] eafora se yldesta wæs Enos haten; se nemde God niðþa bearna ærest ealra, siððan Adam stop on grene græs gaste geweorðad.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 617 Ich habbe at wude tron wel grete..Mid iui grene al bigrowe.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2775 Ðo sag moyses at munt synay..Fier brennen on ðe grene leaf.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 1829 Lich to the Tree with leves grene, Upon the which no fruit is sene.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1256 Þat gresse..euer has siþen ben gren.
?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 131 (MED) Þis herbe haȝt lytyl lewys, abowyn grene and benethyn qwyȝt.
c1480 (a1400) St. Peter l. 563 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 23 He..crownyt hym-self with lauream gren.
a1500 in Englische Studien (1897) 23 445 Gras ys grenner þan ys þe wode.
1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams 143 Rent off those Garlands greene, doe Lawrell Leaues away.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 58 How lush and lusty the grasse lookes? How greene ? View more context for this quotation
1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 202/2 The greater common Ragwort hath many large and long dark green Leavs.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 7 Grass, which, tho' as dry as..Hay, was as green as a Leek.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 10 The dark-green Grass.
1770 M. Bruce Elegy viii On the green furze..The linnet sits, and tricks his glossy plumes.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 919 Many kilns have two floors, on the uppermost of which the greener hops are laid.
1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. ii. 17 It will make your wheat look ten times greener.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 2 Green grows the grass upon the dewy slope.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 90/4 It is said of Buenos Aires that the soil is so fertile that a clothespin planted at night will be sprouting green leaves by morning.
1964 R. W. J. Keay et al. Nigerian Trees II. 188 A very common large forest tree with dark green foliage and distinctive leaves.
2001 J. Grisham Painted House 68 The manicured green grass of Sportsman's Park.
b. gen. Designating minerals, glass, animal fur, plumage, textiles, coloured light, etc.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [adjective]
greeneOE
verdant1581
verdurant1583
sinople1590
vernant1594
viricund1599
virid1600
deep green1609
evergreen1622
virideous1688
virent1830
eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 23/1 Aurocalcum, groeni aar.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxxvi. 242 Wamb [biþ] ungewealden & unyþe micge biþ hal, ac hio biþ sweartre & grenre & blacre þonne hire riht sie.
OE Vision of Leofric in Rev. Eng. Stud. (2012) 63 549 He stod on middan þære flore aþenedum earmum mid mæsse[reafe] gescrydd & hæfde grene mæssehacelan on him beorhte scinende.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 163 Hire winpel [is] wit..and hire mentel grene oðer burnet.
?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne l. 70 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 146 Þe pilers..Beþ iturned of cristale, Wiþ har las [read bas] and capitale Of grene Iaspe and rede corale.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xix. 1291 Hunters cloþeþ hemself in grene, for þe beste loueþ kyndeliche grene coloures.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9983 Þe roche..þat painted es wit grene heu.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 174 Þe sailes.., som were blak & blo, Som were rede & grene.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 16 A bagge of grene silk.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 82 The emerant greyne.
1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico i. f. 2v The colour of these pusshes was derke grene, and the syght therof was more greuous vnto the pacient than the peyne it selfe.
1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 120 There in a mantle of light greene..Parthenophe they did aray.
a1618 J. Sylvester Monodia in Wks. (1880) II. 330/1 Embroidered gowns Of grass-green silk-shag.
1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) vii. 340 He that looks on a green glass, fancies all things he looks upon to be green.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 6 The whiteness of the Earth..makes many Commanders and Knights to wear green Spectacles.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 23 Trees where the green sort of Monkeys harbour.
1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 237 Pain in his head, attended with vomiting, and purging, of a green and bilious matter.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 250 Wing-coverts green, with red margins.
1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight v. 63 A green light at night marks the ‘starboard’ or right-hand side of a vessel.
1887 Lady 20 Jan. 38/3 Pink satin bags, tied with bow and ends of bronze-green satin ribbon.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 18 Apr. 8/1 The new halfpenny green stamp was on sale yesterday.
1953 A. G. E. Pearse Histochem. vi. 115 The cytoplasm and nucleoli were colourless while the nuclei were green.
2009 Daily Democrat (Woodland, Calif.) (Nexis) 21 Feb. Jimenez..was sporting glasses that had bright-blue rims and lime-green earpieces.
c. Designating the water of the sea; hence as an epithet of Neptune. In later use also spec. of seawater shipped on board a boat.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] > green
greenc1405
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1100 The statue of Venus..fro the nauele doun al couered was With wawes grene and brighte as any glas.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 612 (MED) Þe se ful ofte with swiche wedris kene Boilyng vp with many wawes grene.
1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 361/2 Sailing..Ouer the waues, high and greene.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 58 I, that with my Sword, Quarter'd the World, and o're greene Neptunes backe With Ships, made Cities. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 402 Fish that..Glide under the green Wave. View more context for this quotation
1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 298 O'er green Neptune 's briny Flood, And his Scale-arm'd Tritons scud To Savannahs smooth.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 835 When he sees afar His country's weather-bleach'd and batter'd rocks, From the green wave emerging.
1829 W. N. Glascock Sailors & Saints I. 216 You'll have to lighten her at last; for the boats are shipping green seas every minute.
1850 J. Wilson Let. in Mem. (1859) vii. 258 The deep green sea is at your feet.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Green Sea, a large body of water shipped on a vessel's deck; it derives its name from the green colour of a sheet of water between the eye and the light when its mass is too large to be broken up into spray.
1910 F. Innes Diary 1 Feb. in Mariner's Mirror (1974) 60 428 She took a green sea over the forecastle head, lifting me clean over the cat tail and anchor and washed me over the side.
1948 V. Watkins Lady with Unicorn 13 Slipping through listening hands And lips of stone, where stands Green Neptune.
1958 K. Nelson & C. Ford Klondy: Daughter Gold Rush ix. 140 I could smell the sea, and notice the milky-green expanse of open water.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Dec. v. 7/5 Curving shore pines rise out of the precisely carved undulating azaleas like masts on a green sea.
d. Of meat: putrid from long keeping (with reference to the green surface tint which it acquires).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > putrid
sappy1574
green1847
1847 R. M. Martin China II. vii. 378 Calcutta cured meat perfectly green with putridity.
1863 Morning Star 1 Jan. 5 I know men..who would not touch a hare unless it was regularly ‘green’ before cooking.
1921 J. A. Minturn Amer. Spirit xv. 140 He had helped to hoist meat out of ship's hold that was green with mold, and if he ever became an officer he would see that his men fared as well as he.
1994 D. Nixon Hero of Beecher Island (1997) iv. 85 When the men went to cut some flesh from the dead horses, they found that the meat was green and filled with maggots.
2.
a. Covered with or abundant in foliage or vegetation; verdant; (of a tree) in leaf. Also in extended use.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > flourishing or luxuriant in growth
greeneOE
frimOE
ranka1325
wlonk1398
flourishingc1400
rankish1495
frank?1548
gole1573
abled1576
wanton1579
proud1597
unseared1599
unwithered1599
ramping1607
lusha1616
fulsome1633
luxurious1644
rampant1648
luxuriant1661
lascivious1698
pert1727
unnipped1775
verdurous1820
happy1875
the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective]
greeneOE
strongc1230
verdant1590
shrubby1598
shaggy1605
tufted1606
tufty1612
covered1632
vegetated1697
covert1707
verdurous1717
shagged1784
matted1791
vegetive1855
scrubbed1870
flourishing1883
eOE Bounds (Sawyer 298) in D. Hooke Pre-Conquest Charter-bounds Devon & Cornwall (1994) 105 Ærest on merce cumb ðonne on grenan pytt.
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. vii. 38 Seo [dun] wæs ða tidlice grene & fæger & mid misenlicum blostmum wyrta afed & gegyred æghwyder ymbutan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9985 Sume boȝhess off þatt treo..Swa sinndenn grene þatt teȝȝ þohh Ne berenn næfre wasstme.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 70 Treowe ancres beoð a riht briddes of heouene. Þe fleoð on heh & sitteð singin de murie o þe grene bohes.
c1250 ( Bounds (Sawyer 1010) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1846) IV. 98 Andlang ðaes wuduweges on ðone grene pað.
a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 543 Vert tenail [v.r. terayl] [glossed] grene balke.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Friar's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 86 Wher ridestow vnder this grene shawe.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 28 Þat gardyne es all way grene.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6624 (MED) He kepid bestys on pasture grene.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlvii. 157 The erthe was so fayre and grene.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 648 These Trees are alway greene: some have leaves twice a yeare.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xiv. 90 Harboured in a green plot of ground resembling a meadow.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 626 Yon flourie Arbors, yonder Allies green . View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 388 On the green Bank I sat, and listen'd long.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 356 Who..urg'd, for title to a consort Queen, Unnumber'd acres arable and green.
1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. I. iii. viii. 281 They coasted along until they discovered the green vales of Ireland.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 102 Having in his hand a branch of a green tree.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 46 Thou..The green silence dost displace, With thy mellow breezy bass.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 118 We were soon upon the green alp.
1906 B. Carman Pipes of Pan 12 I became aware of each Presence, aspen, bass, and beech; And they all found voice and made A green music in the shade.
1955 K. A. Porter Let. 4 Aug. (1990) viii. 485 I am sitting in a glassed-in sundeck upstairs where I have established my workroom, and have green landscape on all sides.
1990 Countryside Winter 180/2 Opening the back door, I was startled to find a vivid green vista of farmland filled with colorful vegetables, fruits and flowers.
2009 N.Y. Mag. 6 Apr. 112 (advt.) Water's Edge amenities include..a riverfront promenade and lush green courtyard.
b. Of a season of the year: characterized by abundance of greenery, foliage, etc. Of a winter, Christmas, etc.: mild, without frost or snow.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [adjective] > mild (of weather or climate)
mildOE
softc1225
greenc1425
gentle1550
genial1647
clement1652
balmy1709
maumy1728
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 1291 Whan þat..grene ver I-passed were, ay fro ȝer to ȝer, And May was com, þe monyth of gladnes.
a1500 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Adv.) in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 135 The comyng Of greene veer with fresch buddes new.
1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 62 I know not what greene Christmas, and red Haruest.
1591 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 55 I was borne and bred fiue miles beyond S. Michaels mount, foure summers before the greene winter.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xix. 202 A green Christmas is neither handsome nor healthfull.
1710 Brit. Apollo 27–29 Nov. A Green Christmas makes a Fat Church-Yard.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 30 A green yule makes a fat Church-yard.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Early Sonnets ix The pits Which some green Christmas crams with weary bones.
1898 Daily News 5 Mar. 5/2 Good English poultry..with prices for the most part high. Owing to the green winter, however, they are not nearly so high as usual.
1971 J. Gardam Long Way from Verona xiv. 120 We had a dirty, warmish Christmas—a ‘green’ Christmas all the old ladies called it, coming out of church.
2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing iii. 224 The faux friendliness of people on the street is as fleeting and token as the distant green summer.
3. Of the complexion: having a pale, sickly, or bilious hue, indicative of fear, envy, ill humour, or sickness (also in green and wan, green and pale). Also in extended use. See also green sickness n.With reference to envy, chiefly in green with envy (also jealousy) at Phrases 8, green eye n. at Compounds 1d(a) (yellow being the traditional colour of jealousy).
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]
blatec1000
whiteOE
greena1275
blakec1275
bleykea1300
wana1300
palec1330
bleach1340
pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374
colourlessc1380
deadlyc1385
deadc1386
bloodlessc1450
earthlyc1460
ruddylessc1460
wan visaged?a1513
wanny1555
as pale or white as a clout1557
bleak1566
mealy1566
pale-faced1570
ghastly1574
white-faced1577
bleakish1581
pallid1590
whiggish1590
tallow-faced1592
maid-pale1597
lily1600
whey-colour1602
lew1611
roseless1611
Hippocratical1615
cadaverousa1661
Hippocratic1681
smock-faced1684
white-looked1690
livid1728
as white (or pale) as a sheet1752
squalid1753
deathly1791
etiolated1791
light-skinned1802
suety1803
shilpit1813
blanched1828
tallowy1830
suet-faced1834
pasty1836
tallowish1838
whey-faced1847
pasty-faced1848
aghast1850
waxen1853
complexionless1863
light-skin1877
lily-cheeked1877
lardy1879
wan-faced1881
exsanguinous1889
wheatish1950
a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 35 (MED) His bodi þat wes feir & gent & his neb suo scene Wes bi-spit & al to-rend, His rude wes worþen grene.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 470 Al-so he wolde with hem leyke, þat weren for hunger grene and bleike.
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 102 Wel grene and wan sal be is [sc. þe sone] liȝt, And þat for dred.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 63 So muchel y þenke vpon þe þat al y waxe grene.
a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) l. 70 Þe iewes..wex all ful gul and grene.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2132 (MED) His child I have I-norisshid, and þat is by me seen; ffor my rede colour is turnyd in-to grene.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxxxiii. [lxxx.] 251 The duke..waxed pale and grene as a lefe.
c1550 Clariodus (1830) iii. 203 Lang scho lay with deadlie visage greine.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 37 Was the hope drunke, Wherein you drest your selfe? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to looke so greene, and pale, At what it did so freely?
c1650 (a1500) Eger & Grime (Percy) (1933) 184 Now thou art both pale and greene.
1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man ii. 20 The wholsomst Food for green Consumptive Minds!
1793 Ladies' Diary 31/1 Green envy rolls her baleful eyes.
1794 W. Blake Nurses Song in Songs of Experience My face turns green and pale.
1887 H. R. Haggard Jess xxxi. 296 The Boers halted and consulted, except Jacobus, who went on, still looking very green.
1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond ix. 234 Can it be that my little pet is feeling icky-boo? Face going green—slight perspiration—collar tight.
1943 C. Beaton Diary Dec. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiii. 117 And then..his neck and forehead bleeding, his face green, appeared the pilot. ‘Good show,’ the others congratulated him.
1995 Times 10 Jan. 26/6 Having once been the saviour of the construction sector, housebuilding is starting to look a bit green.
2001 R. Nicoll White Male Heart (2002) 243 They spun and she stumbled, her complexion now white and then, on the next turn, green, and he hoped it might be the light from the colour box.
4.
a. Designating or relating to a green-coloured signal, such as a light, flag, etc., used to give permission to proceed or to indicate safety. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. sense B. 1f.Earliest in green light n. (see also note there).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > permit [verb (transitive)] > permit to proceed
pass1523
green1839
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [adjective] > specific signal
green1839
1839 Roads & Railroads, Vehicles, & Modes of Travelling xviii. 330 A green light should be placed at each station at the spot where the engine-man should slacken his speed, and a red light at the point where he is to stop.
1869 Rep. Accidents on Railways (Railway Dept.) I. 11/1 The signalman..opened the points leading to the down line..and gave the driver a green signal.
1926 D. R. Lamb Mod. Railway Operation xiii. 152 The colour light signal... The type which has so far found favour in Great Britain is that giving three aspects, green, orange and red, signifying, respectively, ‘all right’, ‘caution’ and ‘danger’.
1951 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Oct. b24/1 The Philadelphia district will be well represented when the 100-mile National Championship, for sportsman stocks, gets the green flag at the Langhorne Speedway, Sunday.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 269 Jack rabbit, a motorist who is proficient at watching the cross-street traffic light; when it turns yellow, he starts up and is into the intersection before the light in front of him has turned green.
1965 W. E. Woodson & D. W. Conover Human Engin. Guide (ed. 2) ii. 214 Green: safe materials, such as water and brine.
1968 Listener 27 June 837/2 A whole host of imitators..had been impatiently waiting for the green light. It now seems sadly obvious that the light was not green.
1992 Pioneer on Sunday (Delhi) 13 Sept. 10/8 The Orissa High court has given the company the green signal for the takeover of OMC Alloys.
b. Designating a green-coloured channel or exit at a border, through which travellers who have no goods to declare to customs authorities may pass.
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1968 Guardian 11 Apr. 1/2 A more selective system of Customs questioning of passengers..is provided for in the finance bill published yesterday... Those who have anything to declare will go through a ‘red’ channel... Those who have nothing to declare will pass through a ‘green’ channel.
1970 Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 3/2 He calmly drove through the ‘green’ channel, indicating he had nothing to declare.
1998 Strad July 688/1 Believing he did not have to declare any of his possessions, Optiz passed through the green customs exit.
c. In North America and some European countries: designating a ski run or trail suitable for beginners, marked with a green symbol (cf. green circle n. at Compounds 1d(a)) and represented on a map in green. Cf. sense A. 8c.
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1964 Ski Area Managem. Fall 41/1 Runs will be marked with a green square for the easiest runs.]
1974 H. Evans et al. We learned to Ski 33 Here is what we have found to be the general pattern of designation in Europe... Green: easy, for beginners.
1985 Times 5 Oct. 13/1 Beginners quickly gain confidence and competence on the broad ‘green’ runs.
1992 Economist 26 Dec. 128/1 Today an averagely fit person can master easy green or blue runs within a few days.
2002 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 26 Mar. b3 The snowboarder..was navigating the Pica Trail green run when the crash happened.
II. Having qualities which in plants are often indicated by green colour: flourishing, fresh, new, immature.
5. Of a fruit or plant: young and tender; unripe, not ready to eat; retaining natural moisture, fresh.
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the world > plants > by age or cycles > [adjective] > young
youngeOE
greeneOE
yearling1657
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxiv. 216 Eft, pintreowes þa grenan twigu ufeweard gegnid on þæt seleste win, sele drincan.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) i. 30 Wið earena sar genim þære ylcan wyrte leaf þonne heo grenost beo [L. herbae recentis folia].
a1250 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Maidstone) (1955) 109 (MED) Mani appel is uten grene, briht on beme, & biter wiþ-innen.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxiii. 921 Som fruyt þerof is rype, and som grene and sour.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. vi. l. 300 (MED) Þanne pore folke for fere fedde hunger ȝerne With grene poret and pesen.
c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 141 Take grene walnotes wyþ alle þe hulkes.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 463 Grene resches a few he schare.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKiiiv Hurt the grene blade, and you shall haue no whete there.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xviii. 28 Chamœpitys greene pound..and layde upon great woundes..cureth the same.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 116 The greene and ripe Figs are hot and moyst in the first degree.
1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iv, in Occas. Refl. sig. F4v Green Fruit, though of a good Kind, will not easily be shaken down.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 435 The green Eare, and the yellow Sheaf. View more context for this quotation
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cider Cider..made of green immature Fruit.
?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 170/2 This shrub, bears green & ripe fruit & flowers all the Year round.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 119 Green walnuts were much esteemed; they were served at dessert.
1884 Public Opinion 3 Oct. 436/1 Beware of green fruit.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 22 Nov. 5/2 The slander case between members of two firms engaged in different branches of the green fruit trade.
1992 Countryside Mar. 42/3 Tomatoes..are actually picked green..and then artificially ripened with ethylene.
6. That has not been prepared or treated for consumption or use.
†a. Of vegetables: uncooked, raw. Obsolete.Only attested in Old English.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked > not cooked or raw
raweOE
unsoddenc1000
greenOE
unsoda1250
crude1542
undecocted1542
unleepeda1568
uncoqued1617
incocted1645
rough1793
uncooked1846
raw food1904
cookless1907
OE Ælfric's Colloquy (1991) 37 [Dicit cocus:] Si me expellitis a uestro collegio, manducabitis holera uestra uiridia, et carnes uestras crudas : gif ge me ut adrifaþ fram eowrum geferscype, ge etaþ wyrta eowre grene, & flæscmettas eowre hreawe.
OE Monasteriales Indicia (1996) lviii. 32 Gesodenra wyrta tacen is þæt þu do mid þinre oðre handa nyþerweard be þære sidan swylce þu wyrta scearffian wille; ðonne þu grene wyrta habban wille, þonne sete þu þinne finger on þine wenstran hande.
b. Of an animal skin: raw, untanned, unseasoned.Recorded earliest in greenhide n. at Compounds 1d(a).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > undressed or untanned
rougheOE
rawOE
greena1400
untanned1535
untawed1545
unbarked1569
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 356 Recentis corii : noui, grenre hyde.
a1400 in K. W. Engeroff Untersuchung ‘Usages of Winchester’ (1914) 56 (MED) Also, no man ne may bygge leþer grene ne skyn grene in þe towun, but ȝif he be of fraunchyse.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. viii. xxiii. 163 A yonge man..was wrapped together with a dogge and a serpent in a greene oxe hyde, and caste into the deapth of the sea.
1600 C. Edmondes Obseruations Fiue Bks. Caesars Comm. ii. vii. 78 The vpper roofe was commonly couered with greene or raw hides, to keepe it from burning.
1630 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1936) VII. 85 That na maisters nor servandis..pas to anye buith or fleschour hous to buye anye grein skynnis.
1806 S. Fraser Jrnl. 30 June (1960) 211 He gave us..two drysed [dressed] and one green orignal [moose] skins, for which he got goods.
1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 148 It would be greatly to the interest of the tanner..if all hides were imported in a green state, that is, merely salted.
1910 Mod. Amer. Tanning II. 105 Sheepskins in the green state are easily soaked because of their open nature.
1983 J. E. Churchill Compl. Bk. Tanning Skins & Furs ix. 120 Let it soak for about one hour for a green skin or forty-eight hours for a dry-salted skin.
c. Of wood, vegetable fibres, or items made from these: unseasoned, not thoroughly dried.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [adjective] > seasoned > not
greena1325
wetc1405
sour1572
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 608 Ðe seuendai e[f]t [MS est] ut it tog, And brogt a grene oliues bog.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4959 (MED) Bardus..hadde gadred him a tasse Of grene stickes and of dreie To selle.
c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 337/2 Thai mak the saidillis of grene tymmer quhair thai aw to be maid of widderit and dry.
c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 6 (MED) Tak þe grene bowes of an asche & bryne þam, & kepe þe jeuse þat commes owte at þe endis.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 33 Grene wode is hotter than the other whan it is wel kyndeled.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiiiv If the rake be made of grene wode the heed wyll nat abyde vpon ye stele.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1048/1 Greene woode, and other smotheryng rather then burnyng fewel.
1611 Bible (King James) Judges xvi. 7 If they binde mee with seuen greene withs [margin. Or, newe coards, Heb. moist], that were neuer dried. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 80 One of you wil proue a shrunke pannell, and like greene timber, warpe, warpe. View more context for this quotation
1628 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1900) 2nd Ser. II. 438 Aganis putters of greene lint in running waters.
1749 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1871) III. 367 A green yoke is galling and uneasy to the cattle.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 498 It had unfortunately been packed into new, or what are called green casks.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2281/2 Split, a ribbon of wood rived from a rough piece of green timber.
1881 Chicago Times 1 June Lumber Rep., Quotations for cargoes of green lumber.
1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War iv. 50 A double row of stout green timber, with a ditch and bank behind, from which the defenders fired from loopholes.
1996 Daily Tel. 24 May 12/1 The ceiling starting to take shape is in an unashamedly Gothic style, using green oak, following a modern trend towards unseasoned use of the wood.
d. Of meat or fish: uncured, undried, raw.Recorded earliest in green fish n.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > other qualities of meat
green1577
slink1607
gelded1621
tenellous1651
jerk1743
staggy1933
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked (of specific food) > meat
rawish1577
blood-raw1590
well-done1681
underdone1683
green1725
rare-done1746
rare1776
blue1867
medium1901
pink1947
1425 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 186 (MED) Item, for grene Fissh, vj d.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. viii. f. 109v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Of these [sc. swine], some we eate greene for porcke, & other dryed vp into Bacon.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 604 Their Oxen, Camels, and sheep, eate fishes after they be dryed, for they care not for them when they be green.
1651 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1887) IV. 68 For sellinge a stirke beefe wch wee were informed had the turne and for sellinge a quarter of greene beefe the same day.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xx. 538 Their Legs are wrapt round with Sheep-guts... These are put on when they are green.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 42 Fish-Cod dry..Ditto Green.
1725 I. Watts Logick i. iv. §8 We say, the Meat is green when it is half-roasted.
1789 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) i. 28 A green ham wants no soaking.
1814 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. Green, raw, not done enough.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. vii. 228 ‘'Tis the tenpence a-pound flitch,’ said the comely dame..‘I have paid as much for very green stuff,’ said Mrs. Mullins.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 352/2 The sides are re-stacked and salted..They are now ‘green bacon’, and only require drying and smoking.
1973 Cookery Year (Reader's Digest Assoc.) 42 Bacon and gammon are cured together in brine for 4 days and then stacked in maturing rooms for 7-11 days. At the end of this stage bacon is known as green bacon.
?1977 W. J. Bursey Undaunted Pioneer 167 While the fish was still green, the Monroe Company sent some vessels to our wharf.
1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 271 ‘Green meat’ is a rancher's term for meat that has not been aged.
e. Of clay, bricks, pottery, cement, etc.: undried, unburnt, unfired.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > [adjective] > not
rawa1398
uneledc1440
unbakenc1550
unbaked1563
green1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. xviii. 519 Some there be who take file-dust of lead, put the same in an earthen pot of greene potters clay, set the same into an ouen, and so let it calcine therein vntill such time as the pot be well and througly baked.
a1676 J. Dunton House of Weeping (1682) i. 210 If we consider the Substance of Mans Body, which being a Building compact of green Clay, is easily overthrown with a small puff of Wind.
1724 J. Philips et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses (ed. 2) I. iv. 98 Thro' the wall that parted them, was left (By the green cement's shrinking) a small cleft.
?1735 Pract. Husbandman & Planter II. vi. 114 Crude green Clay, dug out of deep Fosses or Pits, and burnt into Use for Husbandry.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 463 When the clay is in one peculiar state, called the green state.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 614 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.
1882 Chambers's Jrnl. 80 The salt-glaze process must essentially modify the ornamentation of the ware, since it receives it in the stage of raw or green clay.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 138/2 I knew enough about cement products to realize that my ‘green’ or uncured bricks could not be handled without distorting their accurate shapes.
1989 Building Today 22 June 38/3 It's powerful—so it'll drive nails into any timber or even green concrete.
f. Of cloth or textile fibres: unbleached. Cf. grey n. 4b. Now historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > treated or processed in specific way > [adjective] > other
waulked1490
ungrainedc1503
undressed1535
gummed1598
green1727
greige1835
limp1866
print1883
unweighted1883
sueded1888
satinized1891
crushed1895
beaver-finished1909
Schreinered1929
pre-boarded1940
permanent press1944
perma-pressed1951
perma-press1956
warp-printed1957
stabilized1960
1727 Act 10 Geo. I c. 2 in Statutes at Large Ireland (1786) V. 81 No Unbleached Cloths, called Green Cloths, shall be brought to any Market or Fair, or shall be sold or exposed to Sale, otherwise than in the Folds and no ways tied.
1791 J. Coulter in Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 363 It [sc. flax] is brought to market, both green and bleached.
1817 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. Aug. 285/1 Hemp, fur, sailcloth,..common wool, bleached and green linen.
1883 W. Jolly Life John Duncan vi. 54 The firm also had a bleach-field at Rubeslaw,..where ‘green’ linen yard was bleached white.
1913 W. A. G. Clark Cotton Goods in Canada 44 Unbleached yarns are known as gray, or green, yarns and in the weaving trade cloth made from such yarns is known as green linens.
1946 Proc. Huguenot Soc. 17 382 The green linens were bought and sold at the markets, and the professional bleachers carried out the next step in finishing the product for the trade.
g. Of coffee beans: unroasted.
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1761 H. Lloyd Let. 7 Aug. in P. L. White Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 673 Price Current..Green Coffee 3/9.
1844 Cultivator New Ser. 1 40/2 For sale, the following articles, viz: Green Coffee, Roasted Coffee, Ground Coffee.
1891 Comm. & Architect. St. Louis 104 The trade in roasted coffees..is fast supplanting that in green coffees.
1921 B. Crowell & R. F. Wilson Armies of Industry II. 604 The only way for the troops to secure fresh coffee was for us to send over the green product for roasting as it was needed.
2006 T. Arndorfer & K. Hansen Compl. Idiot's Guide Coffee & Tea 56 Green coffee weighs more than roasted coffee due to moisture loss during roasting.
7. Unaltered by time or natural processes; fresh, new.
a. Of oil, wine, etc.: not yet matured or mellowed by keeping; (in favourable sense) †fresh, not rancid or stale (obsolete). Also (chiefly Scottish) designating the first milk to flow after childbearing, calving, etc. (cf. colostrum n.). Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [adjective] > matured or fermented > not
greeneOE
musty?1440
must1559
mustulent1592
aiglent1623
infermented1732
stummy1770
mute1801
fiery-new1842
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. ii. 180 Gif se maga aþunden sie oþþe aþened, genim þæs selestan wines & grenes eles swilc healf, seoþ wermodes croppan, do on hnesce wulle, smire mid.
1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. ovii This wyne is ouyr grene [printed greue] thatt is ryper.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iv. f. 41 A cuppe of grene [L. austerum] wyne.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii Such greene wines..are..more hurtfull then any other.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 22 His Host set before him..olde ranke oile in steed of greene, sweet, & fresh.
1627 P. Forbes Eubulus i. 12 For a Chylde, which hath beene misfostered, by sucking in corrupted Milke, you know, that healthsome greene Milke is the best Restoratiue.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 264. ⁋5 It [sc. Port] strengthens Digestion..which green Wines of any kind can't do.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 6 Reed that her milk gat wrang fan it was green.
1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Colostric Fluid..popularly termed green milk.
1880 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Green-milk, milk of a cow just calved, Banffs.
1900 J. Knight Food & Its Functions (new ed.) iv. 129 The age of the calf influences the quality, for, as in human milk, the first milk or ‘green’ milk, called colostrum..is of a purgative nature.
1943 Rev. Econ. Statistics 25 65/2 There is nothing which contradicts the usual notion of equilibrium in the assertion that a gallon of green wine is worth as much as a gallon of mature wine.
b. Of a wound: recent, fresh, unhealed, raw. Frequently figurative. Now archaic and rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > qualities of wound
openOE
greenc1325
compound cystc1400
composed?1541
cursed1565
undressed1598
stale1607
untenteda1616
ripening1622
stabbed1653
indigested1676
complicated fracture1745
stanchless1820
unstanched1826
uncicatrized1839
punched out1869
toxicotraumatic1899
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 8670 To winchestre he was ilad al mid is grene wounde.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 4618 (MED) This Arrons..made him woundes ten or tuelve Upon the bak..And so forth with hise hurtes grene..He rod.
c1400 Life St. Alexius (Laud 622) (1878) l. 316 Wiþ his blood and peynes grene.
c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 32 (MED) Ach of wounde that is grene or new.
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Dj, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Is nat that to cure an vlcere as a grene wounde?
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 188 Perchance the rememberans of this grene wound..makes ȝow the feirter.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 108 Resina..is excellent for the cure of greene and fresh wounds.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) iv. 21 A Man that studieth Reuenge, keepes his owne Wounds green.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. x. 393 Making the green wound of an errour fester into the old soare of an Heresie.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 15 Pouring Oil into a green Wound.
1760 J. Home Siege of Aquileia iii. i. 25 Like a green wound, At first I felt it not.
1766 S. Scott Sir George Ellison I. ii. ii. 172 It may afford room for mirth; but the wound is yet green, and bleeds afresh not only in the presence, but on the thought of her who gave it.
1780 E. Burke Speech Bristol previous to Election 12 Whilst the wounds of those I loved were yet green.
1866 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid vi. 193 Her death-wound ghastly yet and green.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. xv. 200 I took it like a lamb, for I saw it could not be settled there. He can rub brine on a green wound!
1932 S. Gwynn Life Horace Walpole i. 28 A letter from Gray plainly echoes what Walpole had written, in that September while the wound was still green.
1937 Lancet 20 Nov. 1204/2 In the later years 18 women appear as surgeons, phlebotomists, bone-setters, or curers of sores and green wounds.
1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman xv. 228 He has certainly taken it better than I expected—but Ulverston's presence cannot but keep the wound green!
†c. Of a person: recently recovered from an illness (with of). Of a mother: recently delivered of a child. green in earth: just buried. Obsolete.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > giving birth > delivered of a child
lighta1400
deliverc1400
liverc1450
green1474
well-deliveredc1515
delivered1594
travailed1843
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [adjective] > buried > newly buried
green in earth1474
1474 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 475 Whyche cheere also hathe made me perffyghtly hool, I thanke God and yow, in so moche þat where as I feeryd me þat for weykenesse, and so green recoveryd off my syknesses, þat I scholde have apeyryd by the weye.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance f. v The moder is yet but grene good soule, & hath nede of good kepyng.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Adelphi v. vii, in Terence in Eng. 328 Its the better a great deale, then the greene woman be brought hither through the streete.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 41 Where bloudie Tybalt yet but greene in earth, Lies festring in his shroude. View more context for this quotation
1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. ii. xxxix. 58 England is this green Woman, lately brought to bed of a long-expected Childe Liberty.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4254/4 William Coster..green of the Small-pox.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Green cow, a cow recently calved; denominated from the freshness of her milk.
1877 H. James American xxv. 452 He thought of Valentin de Bellegarde, still green in the earth of his burial.
d. Retaining the traces of newness; perceptibly fresh or recent. Now only in technical uses.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > fresh or new
newa1300
moistc1390
undiffadedc1430
green1585
youthful1594
virent1595
virgin1600
unhandleda1657
virginala1659
original1756
untrite1781
unclichéd1946
1585 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 55 Dyuers personis..desyris the bodeis of thair departit freindis to be bureit in the said kirk, swa that throw the multitude of deid bodeis bureit tharin few places is to be fund thairintill but grein grauis.
a1600 MS Rec. Aberdeen in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1825) Suppl. (at cited word) New and grein graves.
1609 A. Gardyne Garden Grave & Godlie Flowres sig. H Marke amongs, those Marble Monuments, This Graue, yet grene.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Peindre à fraiz, to paint with water-colours on a greene, or new-mortered, wall.
1679 Trials of Wakeman 30 He believes that the hand that writ the Letter..and the Bill that he saw green..were the same.
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 87 The Mischief that must ensue if the Tide went over such a green Bank or Wall of Earth.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 174 Bid 'em be jogging, while their Boots are green.
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 49 To preserve the green Mortar..from being washed away before it would get proper Time to cement.
1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 653 If the fire is ‘green’ (that is, if coals have only lately been put on).
1970 G. E. Evans Where Beards wag All xxii. 247 They might..have to return to work at a late hour to load a green kiln, that is, move a piece of grain that had reached the final stage of germination, on to the kiln for roasting.
1994 J. Andrews New Edge of Anvil 37 Pack a layer of wet green coal around the sides of the firebox. (Green coal is new, unburnt coal).
8. Immature, undeveloped.
a. Of a thing, esp. something immaterial, such as a thought, plan, etc.: not fully developed or elaborated.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature
green?a1300
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indigest1398
unmatured?a1425
unripea1500
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embryon1613
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embryonic1825
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sophomoric1837
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rudimentary1851
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juvenescent1875
vealy1890
under-developed1892
?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) in Anglia (1927) 51 251 (MED) He spekeþ wordes grene, Ar þen hoe ben ripe.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 1491 (MED) So mai a Maiden..Ensample take..and longe er that sche changeth Hir herte upon hir lustes greene To mariage.
1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §17. m. 16 Þe obeysaunce þat he had in þe reme of Fraunce..was right tendre, right yong and grene.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 2707 Correcte a cause grene & newe.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse sig. F.3 Gray heads haue greene thoughts; and young slippes are olde twigges.
1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 35 in Jewell House Vntill som better clarke confirme this greene conceipt.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. K1v By the Brides eyes, and by the teeming life Of her green hopes, we charge ye, that no strife..gets place Among ye.
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 120 To ripen green revenge your hopes attend.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 2 At that time the Knowledge of Nature was very green and young in the World.
1792 E. Burke Let. 31 Jan. in Corr. (1968) VII. 56 The Regency,..when Prices Sermon appeard, was still green and raw.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth II. xi. 214 Thy beard is ripe; thy fellow's is green; he shall be the younger.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxix. 346 But these are green resolves.
1927 Amer. Mercury July 301/1 Pittsburgh's aesthetic aspirations are still green.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 May 7/3 I detected a lot of rather green prose devoid of that handy tool of the undergraduate—proof of postulation.
†b. Of a bird: immature. Obsolete.Recorded earliest in green goose n.
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the world > animals > birds > young bird > [adjective]
green1506
sucking1600
1506 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 399 To the woman that brocht grene geys to the King.
1521 in A. F. Johnston & M. Rogerson Rec. Early Eng. Drama: York (1979) I. 225 Item in xiiijcim aucis vulgariter Grenegeys v d.
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 38 They run like a company of Green-guls with shells on their heads.
c. Of a person, or his or her powers or capacities: immature, raw, untrained, inexperienced. Also of an animal, esp. a racehorse or dog: untrained; frequently in to run green: to run in an undisciplined manner. Cf. green hand n. at Compounds 1d(a), green-headed adj. 1, and greenhorn n. 3.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not used or accustomed > not used or experienced
youngOE
inexpertc1450
unfleshed1542
green1548
fresha1557
callow1580
pen-feathered1598
puisne1598
puny1602
unfledgeda1616
inexperienced1626
pin-feathered1641
sucking1648
infledgeda1661
inexperient1670
fledgeless1769
wet behind the ears1851
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke vi. 75 Unlearned and rawe or grene in cunning.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xiv. 97 b As they were young of yeeres and age, they should also bee greene of sense and judgment.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. ii. 86 It was so sir, for she had a greene wit. View more context for this quotation
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 744 He being an old commander, and halfe blind, saw more in the matter than all those greene captaines with their sharpe sight.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xii. 18 Green striplings unripe for warre.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (at cited word) A young or unexperienced Person in Arts, Sciences, &c. is sometimes said to be green.
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Feb. 175/1 Green probationers in mischief.
1871 S. Smiles Boy's Voy. Round World (1875) xiii. 136 I had gone out parrot-potting, with another young fellow almost as green as myself.
1876 Coursing Cal. 5 Mr Vyner's puppy appearing to run very green to commence with.
1880 A. H. Huth Life & Writings H. T. Buckle I. iv. 246 [He] chooses his course while his mind is yet green and unformed.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life II. 75 Actea ran very green, and had a small boy on her back.
1894 Times 10 Jan. 11/5 Very early in her voyage she encountered a very severe storm, and that with a green crew.
1897 Outing May 110/2 Trained coach-horses..as well as green stock.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxi. 350 Then we'll be left and have to turn to and break in another green preacher.
1986 Sporting Life Weekender 17–19 Apr. 10/6 She ran very green on her first start and didn't seem to know what racing was about until the final two furlongs.
1989 M. Norman These Good Men ii. 41 The platoon had been under the command of a new lieutenant, very green and very desperate to prove himself.
2007 Horse & Rider Oct. 156 (caption) Working nicely but still green. Needs experienced person to further her education.
d. Of a person: naive, gullible. Also of an idea or action: characterized by, or displaying, naivety.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [adjective]
weak1423
simple-hearted?c1425
good1480
innocent1548
plain-headeda1586
simple1604
green1605
zany1616
soft1621
ungifted1637
softly1652
half-witted1712
simple-minded1749
simpletonic1780
simpletonian1800
sawney1805
simpletonish1819
simply disposed1848
putty-headed1857
cabbage-looking1898
goonish1921
wally1922
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles iv. i You're green, your credulous; easy to be blinded.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 65 He hadn't a word to say, and so I left 'n, and the Green Girl together.
1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490/2 Green..I continued even in externals near two years.
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 236 (note) ‘Chaunting’ a horse to a green one.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxvii. 332 I've been and got married. That's rather green, you'll say.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iv. 71 Most readers..will think our hero very green for being puzzled at so simple a matter.
1952 M. Kennedy Troy Chimneys 76 I must have been very green if I really entertained the idea of seducing her.
1998 Muscle News No. 33. 24/3 Last year..I was still green. I was sold some fake items and it cost me.
9. Full of vitality; not withered or worn out.
a. Of immaterial things, esp. a person's memory, or the memory of an event.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 116 (MED) Þet is a grace þet bedeaweþ þe herte..and makeþ his al become grene and berþ ynoȝ frut of guode workes.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1298 For evere it is aliche grene, The grete love which I have.
a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 408 A curat shulde preche to þe puple treuþis of goddis lawe þat euere ben grene.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 549 The rancour wes so ruttit in thair hairt, And in thair mynd so recent and so grene, That [etc.].
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Hviv The remembrance wherof is yet green in their heds.
1666 J. Bunyan Grace Abounding §233. 108 Those Graces of God that now were green on me.
1772 S. Whyte Shamrock 49 Though no Statues weep upon thy Tomb, No storied Pillars labour with thy Fame, Green, even in Age, thy Memory shall bloom.
1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 207 He is yet in green and vigorous senility.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. vii. 121 Memorials, which will keep his memory fresh and green for many a long year.
1896 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 3rd Ser. i. 8 His still green recollections of that memorable night.
1935 C. Porter Begin the Beguine in R. Kimball Compl. Lyrics C. Porter (1983) 133 When they begin the beguine it brings back..a memory ever green.
1992 Harper's Mag. June 36/1 A particular porch in Warren County, North Carolina, has been a vital place in my life, from birth well into manhood and now in green memory.
b. Of the body. Also spec. of the bones: full of marrow; living.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > full of life
lifefulc1225
greena1522
high-lifed1859
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > substance of bones > [adjective] > bone-marrow > full of
marrowya1382
greena1522
marrowed1612
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. x. l. 6 Within hir banys greyn The hoyt fyre of lufe to kyndill.
1526 R. Whitford tr. Martiloge 140 His holy body .x. yeres after was founde in the same state and maner and the flesshe and blode as grene and fresshe as the same daye he was slayne.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. viii. vii. 9 Their freshe and greene bodyes.
1658 J. Spencer Καινα και Παλαια 98 The children of God..seem withered, and as it were dead, yet the wicked all that time flourish, and do appear green in the eyes of the World.
1916 Southwestern Reporter 179 82 He testified positively that the blood upon the bones was human blood; that the bones were fresh green skull bones.
2006 New Yorker 24 Apr. 147/3 The shape of the impressions told her that they had been made on fresh, ‘green’ bone.
10. Of a person: young, youthful; not advanced in years. Of a person's age: tender.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > young (of beings)
littleeOE
youngOE
younglyOE
younglinga1250
little waxena1325
greena1398
imperfecta1398
primec1429
unold?1440
juvync1450
novelc1450
unaged1486
in youth's flowers?1507
unbearded1560
unweaned1581
whelpish1586
ungrown1593
under-age1594
unhatched1601
infantine1603
springalda1614
unbakeda1616
unlickeda1616
juvenile1625
lile1633
juvenal1638
bloomy1651
youngish1667
blooming1676
puerilea1680
youngerly1742
steerish1789
chota1814
white-shoe1960
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. vi. 302 A maide hatte virgo and haþ þat name of grene [L. viridiori] age.
c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 44 Johan duc of Bedforde..in his grene age was lieutenaunt of the marchis.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xviii. 287 The childeren were tendre and grene.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 188 Syne tender Youth come wyth hir virgyns ying, Grene Innocence, and schamefull Abaising.
1555 Lydgate's Auncient Hist. Warres betwixte Grecians & Troyans i. v. sig. C.viv/1 This is affyrmed of them that were ful sage, And specially whyle they be grene [1513 Pynson tendre] of age.
1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. C.i Eche thyng is easely made to obaye, whyle it is yong and grene.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 61 Wormes, of quhilkes sum war ȝit greine & ȝoung.
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. ix. sig. Nn The world in his greenest time laye in the armes of ignorance.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 4 In that new world and greene age of the Church.
1664 in G. Miege Relation of Three Embassies (1669) 423 I never yet saw a Prince..whose young mine [sic] did in his greenest years promise and threaten so much and so handsomly.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 39 Though grey our Heads, our Thoughts and Aims are Green.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxix. 236 A little time hence, the now green head will be gray.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 271 Green in years But ripe in glory.
1814 Intrigues of Day iii. iii, in New Brit. Theatre I. 112 As the proverb says, a grey head is often placed on green shoulders.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 4 Your greener age and robust constitution promise longer life.
1898 Weekly Free Press (Aberdeen) 25 June Tho' his body was wither'd his heart was aye green.
1915 E. T. Fowler Ten Degrees Backward 222 Even if it had been possible, grey heads on green shoulders are not an attractive combination.
2006 I. Doig Whistling Season (2007) iv. 136 Maybe it simply proved that I was green in years, but I was not about to tell a woman she had just spent the night in my dream.
III. In extended uses.
11. Relating to or supporting the Irish nationalist cause (frequently contrasted with orange; cf. Orange adj.2 2). In later use also more generally: of or relating to Ireland. Cf. sense B. 4c.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [adjective] > specific association
Orange1795
green1823
Provie1975
1823 J. Gamble Charlton I. xiv. 224 Be they drunk, or be they devils (that is always supposing they are neither orange nor green) I shall make one among them.
1865 Catholic World July 477/1 ‘It is’, as he fairly says, ‘free from personalities, and neither of an orange nor a green complexion.’
1920 O. Wister Straight Deal xvi. 259 It was the Orange Irish who fought in our Revolution, not the Green Irish.
1961 C. H. Cramer Newton D. Baker i. 16 Whatever Irish blood he had was not green—it was red, white, and blue!
1994 BBC Holidays Oct. 10/3 Some pubs hold Irish musical evenings. Yes, they're full of tourists and ‘Green Americans’ in search of their roots.
2001 Boston Globe 25 Feb. 1 Lawrence's green legacy as a center of Irish nationalism is recalled in a 6,000-piece Irish collection.
12. Designating a currency unit of account formerly used in calculating agricultural transactions under the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union and its predecessors; (also) designating or calculated according to the exchange rate associated with this. Cf. green pound n. at Compounds 1d(a).The use of the agricultural unit of account was abolished on the introduction of European Monetary Union in 1999.
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1969 N.Y. Times 25 Oct. 45/2 Prices are fixed in dollar-based units of account, the so-called ‘green dollar’, throughout the European Economic Community.
1979 Internat. Organization 33 340 An artificial so-called ‘green rate’ of exchange was introduced as a political expedient and to somewhat maintain the fiction of ‘common CAP prices’.
1981 J. Pearce Common Agric. Policy v. 38 With or without a devaluation of the green franc, prices of exports and imports expressed in francs would have risen because, though agricultural prices were fixed in units of account, proceeds from exports and payments for imports were converted at the new market exchange rate.
2006 R. Dahrendorf in R. Rogowski & C. Turner Shape of New Europe x. 189 Common agricultural policy means common prices; the latter have to be expressed in a unit of currency, i.e. the green mark, or rather the green dollar.
13.
a. Of, relating to, or supporting environmentalism, esp. as a political issue; (also with capital initial) belonging to or supporting an environmentalist political party. Cf. Green Party n. at Compounds 1d(e) and sense B. 15.The association of the colour green with the environmentalist lobby, esp. in Europe, dates from the early 1970s in West Germany, notably with the Grüne Aktion Zukunft (Green Campaign for the Future), and the grüne Listen (green lists) of election candidates, both of which emerged mainly from campaigns against nuclear power stations.green activist, audit, movement, etc.: see Compounds 1d(e).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [adjective] > relating to party known by colour
yellow1770
blue1781
green1973
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [adjective] > preserving from decay, loss, or destruction > environmental policy of
green1973
wise use1989
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [adjective] > types of party generally
patrician1813
national1828
progressive1830
progressist1843
conservative1845
republican1873
nationalist1884
mobilist1966
green1973
1971 Vancouver Sun 4 Sept. iii. 29/1 Those of us on board the Greenpeace will be deliberately ignoring the warning.]
1973 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 4 June 8/10 ‘Green’ bans have been introduced by the New South Wales Building and Construction Workers' Union.
1978 Economist 14 Jan. 39/1 European politics are turning green; or so the ecologists would have us believe.
1985 Times 25 Apr. 13/6 Dr David Clark, Labour MP for South Shields and Opposition spokesman on ‘green’ issues.
1989 Independent (Nexis) 9 Sept. 3/1 A new ‘green’ tax which could double the price of electricity, gas and petrol in the next five years.
2010 New Yorker 11 Oct. 74/3 The E.D.F., virtually alone among green groups in trying to form bonds with Republicans.
b. Of a product, service, etc.: designed, produced, or operating in a way that minimizes harm to the natural environment.green burial, energy, fuel, etc.: see Compounds 1d(e).
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1979 [see green fuel n. at Compounds 1d(e)].
1980 Fourth Global Training Programme in Environmental Law (United Nations Environment Programme) 23/1 Less than 1 per cent of energy then came from green sources.
1990 Environment 120/2 We have to give the supermarkets credit for numerous green ventures, including own-brand environmentally-friendly products.
1993 Garbage July 26/1 Car makers apparently agree with environmentalists that the pressure to create cleaner, greener cars will prevail.
2001 Time 30 Apr. y10 This year, and additional 1,000 MW of green power will come on-line, thanks to a doubling of wind capacity.
14. Particle Physics. Of a quark: having the colour green (sense B. 14).
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1975 F. E. Close in Acta Physica Polonica B. 6 788 One can make the three-quark system totally antisymmetric by introducing a new degree of freedom for the quarks. We paint them red, green or blue.
1984 P. Davies Superforce (1985) viii. 126 The effect of gluon emission or absorption, then, is to change the identity of a quark, for instance from a red quark to a green quark.
1998 J. Gribbin Q is for Quantum 302 The proton, for example, should be thought of as made up..of one red/up quark, one green/down quark and one blue/up quark.
2006 M. Oertel & M. Buballa in D. Blaschke & D. Sedrakian Superdense QCD Matter & Compact Stars 189 It is observed from Eq. (1) that s22 only involves quarks of two colors, e.g., red and green quarks.
B. n.1
1.
a. The green part of anything; (also) something which is green; a green species or variety of an animal or a substance.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green thing > [noun]
greeneOE
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. lxv. 292 Genim þonne geongre acrinde handfulle & swa swigende æt ham gebring & næfre in on þone mon, sceafe þæt grene on utan, wylle þa sæpspone on cu meolce.
OE Lacnunga (2001) I. clxxi. 120 Gif man scyle mugcwyrt to læcedome habban, þonne nime man þa readan wæpnedmen & þa grenan wifmen to læcecræfte.
1526 Treasure of Pore Men f. x Take..the grene of the Elder bytwene the barke & ye tree.
1764 S. Foote Patron i. 8 Sever the green [i.e. the ‘green fat’ of turtle] from the shell, with the skill of the ablest anatomist.
1877 H. D. Minot Land-birds & Game-birds New Eng. 119 The ordinary notes of the ‘Black-throated Greens’ are numerous, being a tsip, a chick, which is sometimes soft and sometimes loud.
1895 R. Kipling in New Rev. 12 603 O the green that thunders aft along the deck !
1897 Outing 30 380/2 It seems that they were out of tobacco, and had been able to get only the ‘long green’ that the mountaineers used.
1902 L. S. Keyser Birds of Rockies 207 Before man came and settled in those valleys, the violet-greens found the crevices of rocks well enough adapted for their needs.
1995 Weekend Times 14 Jan. 8 150 were rare Javan greens, the most brightly-coloured of an endangered species.
b. = green tea n. at Compounds 1d(a).
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea > green tea
imperial tea1699
imperial1713
green1728
gunpowder1771
cow-slip tea1796
Twankay1840
Jack the Painter1848
1728 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 172 The man at the Poultry has tea of all prices,—Bohea from thirteen to twenty shillings, and green from twelve to thirty.
1749 D. Garrick Let. 3 Aug. (1963) I. 106 The Breakfast was at a Stand! Mr Maud's..best Green cool'd in ye Cups.
1835 C. Dickens in Bell's Life in London 4 Oct. 1/1 Two ounces of seven and sixpenny green.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxviii. 31 Half a pound of seven and sixpenny green, so precious strong..it'll go nigh to blow the lid of the teapot off.
1914 Amer. Cookery Aug.–Sept. 144/2 Where green is liked it may be used in the proportion of two ounces of green to one pound of black.
2006 J. Salter Life is Meals 146 Green has the lowest levels of caffeine..while black has twice that.
†c. A greenhorn; a simpleton. Cf. sense A. 8d. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton
innocentc1386
greenhead1576
gonyc1580
ninnyhammer1592
chicken1600
loach1605
simplician1605
hichcock1607
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dovea1616
goslinga1616
funge1621
simplicity1633
gewgaw1634
squab1640
simpletonian1652
ninny-whoop1653
softhead1654
foppotee1663
greenhorn1672
sumph1682
sawney1699
sillyton1708
gaby?1746
gobbin?1746
green goose1768
nin-a-kin1787
Jacob1811
green1824
sillikin1832
greeny1834
softhorn1836
sucker1838
softie1850
dope1851
soft1854
verigreen1854
peanut1864
daftie1872
josser1886
naïf1891
yapc1894
barm-stick1924
knobhead1931
sook1933
nig-nog1953
sawn1953
pronk1959
stiffy1965
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people
greenhead1576
unexperienced1622
green man1635
greenhorn1672
amateur1767
green1824
greeny1834
Hoosier1846
shavetail1846
Boy Scout1918
nig-nog1953
1824 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 1823 63 It appears that George Charteris..had been ‘doing’ the green, and taking in the ‘deep ones’, quite in the gull-catching style, for a considerable period.
1840 G. Thompson Newgate Cal. 280 I then with my comrade stole from a green twelve shirts..and some stockings.
1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 54/2 I knifed a flat-boat Hoozier—took his lucre—Went up the country—rifled twenty greens.
1853 ‘C. Bede’ (title) The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman.]
1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Green, inexperienced person.
†d. slang. With the. Absinthe. Obsolete. rare. [Compare French verte, noun (1866).]
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > liqueur > [noun] > kinds of
rosa solis1564
rose wine1603
rose of solace1604
ros solis1607
ratafia1670
brandy-cherrya1687
cherry-brandy1686
kernel-water1706
cherry cordial1710
visney1733
walnut-water1747
aniseed1749
maraschino1770
noyau1787
rosolio1796
cherry-bounce1798
absinthe1803
Parfait Amour1805
curaçao1813
ginger cordial1813
citronelle1818
pine1818
crèmea1821
alkermes1825
Goldwasser1826
citronella1834
anisette1837
goldwater1849
crème de cassis1851
Van der Hum1861
chocolate liqueur1864
kümmel1864
chartreuse1866
pimento dram1867
Trappistine1877
green muse1878
rock and rye1878
Benedictine1882
liqueur brandy1882
mandarin1882
green1889
Drambuie1893
advocaat1895
Grand Marnier1900
green fairy1902
green peril1905
cassis1907
Strega1910
quetsch1916
cointreau1920
anis1926
Izarra1926
Southern Comfort1934
amaro1945
Tia Maria1948
amaretto1969
Sabra1970
sambuca1971
Midori1978
limoncello1993
1889 E. Dowson Let. 18 Feb. (1967) 36 I have not felt myself since my generous allowance of the potent green on Thursday & was right ‘orf’ the fascinating fluid yesterday.
e. In singular and plural. slang (originally U.S.). Money. Cf. greenback n. 3 and long green n. at long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4a.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
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sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
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muckc1330
reasona1382
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argentc1500
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Mammon1539
ale silver1541
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California1851
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1917 N.Y. Tribune 8 May 9/1 They'd rather land in The Tower with a squib Than rake in the well-known green.
1925 Flynn's Mag. in E. Partridge Dict. Underworld (1968) 307 Greens, paper currency; bank notes.
1961 New Statesman 21 July 81/2 The hours proved to be from four to half eleven in the morning and the greens would amount to eight ten a week.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File vi. 44 At five shillings a dose that's a lot of green.
1968 Scottish Daily Mail 3 Jan. 6 What had been ‘dough’ in the 20's and became ‘readies’ and ‘greens’ in the 50's turned up again as ‘bread’.
1971 ‘R. Crawford’ Badger's Daughter i. ii. 24 When finally we did lay our mitts on a nice pile of green, Arthur simply knuckled under to luxury.
2003 Word May 108/3 Man's unwavering desire to cheat, fiddle and finagle his fellow man out of their hard-earned green.
f. A green light or flare, etc., used as a signal. Also figurative. Cf. sense A. 4a.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > red or green signal
red light1790
stop light1930
green1936
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > traffic lights > specific
red light1790
green arrow1875
amber light1896
yellow1900
yellow light1920
amber1929
stop light1930
stop sign1934
filter1939
red1940
green1962
1895 Jrnl. Assoc. Engin. Societies 15 286 In this country white is generally used to signify safety; green is used to signify caution..while red is used to signify danger..in England, safety is signified by green, danger by red.]
1936 Pop. Mech. Apr. 13/3 The amber is to follow the green, but, never to follow the red as it does now in many cities.
1953 R. Chisholm Cover of Darkness ii. 30 At last I was given a ‘green’, but the dim pattern of aerodrome lights made little sense by this time.
1962 J. Braine Life at Top ii. 31 The car in front of me stalled and I missed the green.
1963 ‘W. Haggard’ High Wire xi. 116 Overhead there was the unmistakable clatter of a helicopter, then another. Somebody fired a green.
1991 A. McCarten Modest Apocalypse & Other Stories 141 Elliot waited at the lights for a green, the Corona humming evenly.
g. slang (originally U.S.). Marijuana or cannabis.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > marijuana or cannabis
bhang1598
hashish1598
cannabis1765
ganja1800
Indian hemp1803
sabzi1804
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deiamba1851
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cannabis resin1871
marijuana1874
kef1878
locoweed1898
weed1917
Mary Ann1925
mootah1926
muggle1926
Mary Jane1928
Mary Warner1933
Mary and Johnny1935
Indian hay1936
mu1936
mezz1937
moocah1937
grass1938
jive1938
pot1938
mary1940
reefer1944
rope1944
smoke1946
hash1948
pod1952
gear1954
green1957
smoking weed1957
boo1959
Acapulco1965
doobie1967
Mary J1967
cheeba1971
Maui Wowie1971
4201974
Maui1977
pakalolo1977
spliff1977
draw1979
kush1979
resin1980
bud1982
swag1986
puff1989
chronic1992
schwag1993
hydro1995
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road iii. ii. 184 He got hold of some bad green [1951 Orig. Scroll bad s--t], as it's called in the trade—green, uncured marijuana.
1958 A. Ginsberg 26 June in Let. (2008) 190 Bill now smoking Green all drest in distinguished Averill Harriman black worsted flannel, thin, graying temples.
1969 Observer 12 Jan. 30/3 Everybody was talking pot last week (or Mary Jane, tea, grass, weed, hay, boo, gage, green or technically cannabis sativa).
2005 High Times Mar. 10/3 They fuckin' smoke green! I bet they smoke only the best green, since they're practically rich.
2.
a. Vegetation, foliage, greenery.In quot. a1250 used allusively to suggest youthful vigour; compare sense B. 2c.
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the world > plants > plants collectively > [noun]
greenOE
plantage1609
vegetation1744
greenery1816
macrovegetation1958
OE Metrical Charm: For Unfruitful Land (Calig. A.vii) 15 Bere siþþan ða turf to circean..and wende man þæt grene to ðan weofode.
a1250 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 15 Þar-vore, man, þu þe biþench,—al sel valui þe grene.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 7824 (MED) Whan Somer hath lost al his grene, And is with Wynter wast and bare.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 543 The bittre frostes with the sleet and reyn Destruyed hath the grene in euery yerd.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 3814 (MED) Wheroff sholde ye ha socour..with newe grene a-gayn Clothen the busshes in ther maner?
1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. Ai The Ram..forceth ground (yt spoyld of grene Did lye,) newe grene to yelde.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 50 Poor Sambo..and as good a natur'd poor soul, as ever wore black, or eat green.
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 218. ⁋1 This Summer..while the Green was new.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 90 Vines..With purple clusters blushing thro' the green.
1882 F. W. H. Myers Renewal of Youth 183 All the scarlet flowers and tossing green.
1946 D. C. Beattie Road of Naturalist v. 52 We paralleled the fresh alluvial green winding along the Sevier's course.
1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) i. 10 This cell..took the lead in the process of cell division that eventually covered the earth with green.
†b. A tree, herb, or other plant, esp. one that is young and flourishing. Occasionally spec. an evergreen. Usually in plural. Obsolete.In quot. eOE: the fruit of a plant, specifically glossing Latin acinum grape, so as to emphasize the contrast with uva passa dried grape, raisin.
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the world > plants > [noun] > plant, herb, or weed
greeneOE
weedOE
roota1200
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by age or life cycle > [noun] > deciduous or evergreen
evergreen1658
green1664
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 52 Ad acinum, ða grenan. [L. quicquid ex vinea esse potest ab uva passa usque ad acinum non comedent.]
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xxxvi. 2 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 167 (MED) Als wortes of grenes [L. olera herbarum] tite fal sal þai.
a1500 in Antiquary (1901) 37 55 (MED) All that lande was ov[e]r cov[e]red with froste and snowe, and no man[ne]r of grenes apperyng in no place.
1593 T. W. Tears of Fancie xlvii, in Poems (1870) 202 How each pleasant greene, Will now renew his sommers liuerie.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 387 As the Sommers sweet-distilling drops..Re-greens the Greens, and doth the flowers re-flower.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 71 in Sylva Myrtils, and other curious Greens.
1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 121 Several orange trees and other greens.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 86/2 Greens are such Trees or Herbs as are green all the year.
1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 204 Their Oleanders, Laurels, Lentiscus's and most other Greens had suffered miserably.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 142 A large fountaine..with flower potts and Greens set round ye Brimm.
1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 7 In that soft Season when descending Showers Call forth the Greens, and wake the rising Flowers.
1721 E. Young Revenge v. ii How every green is as the ivy pale!
c. Greenness as indicative of vigorous growth or youth; vigorous or flourishing things regarded collectively; frequently figurative: vigour, youthfulness, vitality.Now chiefly in in the green at Phrases 7.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun]
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salad daysa1616
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c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcii. 36 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 140 Like Cedar high And like Date-bearing tree, For greene, and growth the iust shall be.
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xi. sig. O2v Man had..perisht in the spring-time of his greene.
1645 G. Walker Sermon 30 The Lord is ready and waiteth for our amendment, that instantly and without delay he may scatter them as with a whirlewinde both the green and the dry.
1674 E. Calamy et al. Saints Memorials 53 The Righteous have the Green of Profession, and the fruitfulness of their conversation; and 'tis pleasant Fruit.
1782 J. Howie Biogr. Scoticana (ed. 2) 308 He repeated this expression thrice over, Lord, spare the green and take the ripe.
1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 26 How this saplessness shall flush to green.
d. In plural. Freshly-cut branches, leaves, or other greenery used for decoration. U.S. in later use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > plants suitable for
coronary1610
greens1675
greenery1826
1675 L. Addison Present State Jews xix. 176 They have a Custom at this Feast to strow the Synagogues, their dwelling Houses, and the Streets..with Greens, and to wear some upon their heads;..to commemorate that pleasant Verdure which was upon Mount Sinai.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 55 The peaceful Ground; Which only Turfs and Greens for Altars found. View more context for this quotation
1702 London Gaz. No. 3842/2 A Triumphal Arch..adorned with Greens and Flowers.
1767 Dodd Pious Memory 44 Poems 194 Strew thy greens and flowers so sweet.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People iv. 42 The Christmas greens in the church.
1897 Globe 18 Feb. 6/4 The staircase was ‘trimmed with green’, to use the expression current in the States.
1907 Overland Monthly Jan. 67 The interior of the palace was beautifully decorated with greens, and with the American and Turkish flags entwined.
2004 L. Linsley Nantucket Christmas‎ 8 The mantels are strewn with greens, and the gracious stairway banister is wound with garlands.
3.
a. Chiefly British. A piece of public or common grassy land situated in or near a town or village, from which it often takes its name; a village green.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > common or unenclosed land
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green1190
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1190–1200 in K. Major Registrum Antiquissimum Cathedral Church Lincoln (1940) II. 141 Tres seliones super Grene ante portam.
1248 in F. W. Maitland Select Pleas in Manorial Courts (1889) I. 17 (MED) Willelmus et Goda dant..Juliane unum horreum et unum curtillagium propinquius la Grene.
1300 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 115 (MED) Ardlestones grene.
1342 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 44 De illo tenemento..in vico del Grene [in Aberdeen].
c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 140 (MED) Also ij Acris In myddilfurlonge next of the Grene.
1477 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 35 Adam Strath till haue the Schipraw, with the Grene.
1509 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 172 j grangia juxta Bondegate Greyn in tenura relictæ Joh. Tomlynson.
1533 T. More Confutation Barnes in Wks. 792/2 If Barns had not tolde vs so, we woulde haue went that Christe had bode hym..tarye till he coulde geate all the knowen catholike church together vpon a Greene.
1581 Protocol Bk. J. Robertsone (Edinb. Reg. House) 16 Ane for hous lyand within the grene of the said burcht.
1606 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 280 Common balkes and greens within and about the feilds of this towne.
1718 Free-thinker No. 80. 1 Every Holiday, she danced upon the Green.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 7 Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green.
1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 131 The principal market for sheep and lambs..is held on a large green.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. x. 389 Sports, not essentially different from those of our village greens.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 234 On the southern side of Wivilby was a little green.
1888 ‘P. Daryl’ Ireland's Dis. 8 Dublin is provided with fine public gardens and splendid parks, which are here called greens.
1907 J. H. Smith Our Struggle for 14th Colony iv. 118 The greater part of his men stepped forward [i.e. volunteered]. The next day these resolutes..appeared again on the Green.
1996 C. Higson Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen vii. 80 A village fête on the green outside the pub.
b. gen. Grassy ground; a grassy spot (now chiefly British regional). Also (chiefly with modifying word) a piece of grassy ground used for a particular purpose.bleaching-, bowling-green: see the first element.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > grassland
wong971
greenc1225
clowrec1350
bentc1360
swarth?a1400
flaughtc1400
grassa1500
sward?1507
greenswarda1522
sward-earth1541
swarf1599
over-swarth1649
lawn1674
sod1729
swath1776
spine1786
swad1877
turfage1899
padang1909
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 704 (MED) Igripe ha me eanes, ne ga i neauer mare þrefter o grene.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2840 Sket was þe swike on þe asse leyd, And led vntil þat ilke grene.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 2 (MED) Ine..went to þe bataile in a fulle faire grene þat is vnder Kampedene, a medew I wene.
c1400 Life St. Anne (Minn.) (1928) l. 2397 (MED) Þai went þe cete þan wythowte Tyll a grene fayr & dry.
?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 139 (MED) Also it [sc. Camamilla]..growyȝt on grenys and in gardynggis.
c1480 (a1400) St. Blaise l. 241 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 368 Sewine sarkis schene he gert lay a-pone þe grene.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 47 Behald on this greyn! Nowder cart ne plogh Is left.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7732 The grete horses on the grene girdon abacke.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 439, in Wks. (1931) I. 157 No man..preissit to cum within the grene, Bot Heraldis and the Campiounis kene.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 966 All enriched with goodly gardens and pleasant greenes.
1646 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 227 The whole country flat and even as a bowling-green.
1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 398 Go and walk in her [sc. London's] Fields, you shall see some shooting at long marks, some at Buts; some bowling upon dainty pleasant Greens, some upon Bares.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 325 Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft. View more context for this quotation
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 224 Tho' some of larger Stature tread the Green.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xvii, in Poems (new ed.) 74 Mid misty woods on sloping greens.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures xix You..nearly put your foot in it by chaffing old Chorley about selling the piece of green.
1886 Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 59 §14 Any lands being an orchard, bleach-green, walled garden, haggard, or yard.
1906 J. Vaughan Wild-flowers Selborne 56 The ledges and ‘greens’ which line the almost perpendicular chalk cliffs at Freshwater.
1916 T. S. Eliot Let. 6 Sept. (1988) I. 150 The old men..play bowls on the green in the evening.
1952 W. M. Alexander Place-names Aberdeenshire 66 Further west, stretches of green pasture in heather areas are still called ‘greens’.
1999 Bowls Internat. May 44/2 When I do decide to retire, the only consideration will be how I am performing on the green and on recent evidence there's still some life in the old dog yet.
c. Golf. A putting green; a fairway. Also: a golf course (now rare).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > green
putting green1805
green1878
1849 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 654/1 The holes are situated at the different ends and sides of the green, at irregular distances.
1878 ‘Capt. Crawley’ Football, Golf & Shinty 83 Green, a name for the Putting-ground, or for the Links or field.
1890 John Bull 5 Apr. 225/3 There will soon be more greens in England than in Scotland.
1924 J. Braid Golf Guide 164 Par Play, perfect golf without flukes. Thus, if a green can be reached in two strokes, the hole is a Par four; two putts being allowed on each green.
1981 Daily Tel. 20 Aug. 3/4 It was a blind hole and when we reached the green we thought we had overstruck and gone into the rough.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June e8/2 Also called ironwoods or utilities, hybrids put the ball higher into the air, so shots from 200 yards are more likely to stick on the green.
4.
a. Green colour; greenness. In plural: different tints of green. †in green (Heraldry): on a field of green (obsolete).Green is a primary additive colour.Frequently with prefixed nouns or adjectives denoting a particular shade. almond, emerald, leek-, parrot, pea-, sea-, Spanish green: see the first element.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun]
greennessOE
green?c1225
greenheada1325
greenshipc1390
verdurec1400
viridityc1430
sinople1489
flourish1594
deep green1601
verdour1610
verdancy1631
verdue1641
zinnober green1879
vernality1896
virescence1904
verd1915
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 119 Grene of alle heowes froureð mest echnen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12302 Þat heo wolden of ane heowen heore claðes habben. Sum hafde whit sum hafden ræd sum hafde god grene æc.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1168 (MED) That is Novembre..Whan that the lef hath lost his greene.
c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 90 Or for she whitnesse hadde of honestee And grene of conscience, and of good fame The swote sauour lilie was hir name.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 238 A bar off blew in-till his schenand scheild, A bend off greyn desyren ay the feild.
1544 Will of Charles White (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/30) f. 179v A gowne lyned of gosetourde grene.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 457 He bair grauit in Gold, and Gowlis in grene..Ane Tyger.
1598 Floure & Leafe in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 366/1 Leues new..Some very red and some a glad light grene.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. iii. 385 By seuerall compoundings of these extremes, reds, blewes, yellowes, greenes, and all other intermediate colours may be generated.
1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 84 The best is Cedar-green.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 479 In all the Liveries dect of Summers pride With spots of Gold and Purple, azure and green . View more context for this quotation
1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 9 In the clear azure Gleam the Flocks are seen, And floating Forests paint the Waves with Green.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Dyers make divers Shades, or Casts of Green, as Light-Green, Yellow-Green, Grass-Green, Laurel-Green, Sea-Green, Dark-Green, Parrot-Green, and Celadon-Green.
c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies iv. 2 Near some lone fane or yew's funereal green.
1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing iii. 176 Light-yellow has much clearness and beauty on purple and green.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xii. 404 Its [sc. the olive's] pearly greys and softened greens.
1899 Daily News 16 Sept. 7/4 Lovely shades of green, such as grape, pistachio, and reed-green.
1901 Speaker 12 Jan. 396/2 The reds and lemons and greens of its [sc. Uppsala's] houses..form a charming bouquet of colour.
1947 Life 17 Nov. 141/1 Compotes made of confectioner's sugar and initialed ‘D.A.R’ in green.
1955 K. Hutton & A. Swallow Chem. for Gen. Sci. ix. 127 If a borax bead were tinged with bottle-green, what would you do to make it white again?
2008 New Yorker 25 Feb. 74/3 Shot in sullen browns and greens, ‘Miller's Crossing’ begins as a rapturous Bertoluccian piece of filmmaking.
b. Roman History. One of the factions (faction n.1 2c) in the Circus, who adopted green as their distinctive colour; (in plural) the adherents of this faction.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > chariot race > [noun] > company > adherents of specific faction or colour of faction
green1693
1693 W. Congreve tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xi. 232 The Green, have won the Honour of the Day [L. eventum viridis quo colligo panni].
1734 tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Refl. Causes Declension Romans xx. 162 The Blews were in no Apprehension of the Laws..and the Greens began to disregard them.
1884 19th Cent. Dec. 999 What light is thrown on the history of Byzantium by talking of the ‘Blues’ and the ‘Greens’?
1912 H. S. Jones Compan. Rom. Hist. v. 358 The favour of..the emperors who were infected with this passion was usually bestowed upon the Greens; the fashion was set by Caligula, who, as we are told, caused the horses of the rival factions to be poisoned.
2001 J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz Decline & Fall Rom. City vi. 212 The Greens refused to help him on the grounds that he was a notorious supporter of the Blues.
c. The emblematic colour of Ireland (cf. Green Island n. at Compounds 1d(a)), and hence of the Irish nationalist cause.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > parties > colour of nationalist party
green1770
1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa III. lxi. 187 The habit of students in most universities is black; but in this each college is distinguished by a particular colour. That of the Irish is green.
1797 Shan van Vocht (song) What colour should be seen Where our fathers' homes have been, But our own immortal Green?
c1798 Wearing of the Green (song) They are hanging men and women for the wearing of the green.
c1798 Hope in R. R. Madden Lit. Remains United Irishmen (1887) 99 We fell to work, hammer and tongs, The Orange and Green both together.
1845 T. Davies in Songs of Ireland 186 Over many a noble town, and many a field of dead, They proudly set the Irish Green above the English Red.
1886 Academy 30 Oct. 291/3 The cover of this book, half of it of Nationalist green and the other half of Protestant orange, is a strange commentary on the virulence of party feeling.
1969 D. Niland Dead Men Running iii. 82 This is Joey Emmett—he's one of us, he's got the green in him.
2007 New Yorker 19 Mar. 150/2 The hilly landscapes are lovely without being picturesque (none of the travel-ad Irish green).
5. Green clothing or dress (literal and figurative); †green cloth (obsolete). Also in plural: green dresses or other items of clothing; a green uniform.Lincoln green: see the first element.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > of specific colour
purpureeOE
blackc1225
greyc1225
white?c1225
greena1250
yellow1368
violet1380
purplec1390
blue1480
colours1641
tawnies1809
butternut1810
subfusc1853
solid1883
Lovat1908
jungle green1946
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > green
greena1250
green of lyre1429
Lincoln greenc1510
Lincoln1568
Lovat1908
a1250 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Titus) (1940) l. 648 (MED) Ase wel vnder grei as under Grene & gra, ha luteð i þe heorte.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1380 (MED) A schip wiþ grene and gray, Wiþ vair and eke wiþ griis.
c1430 (c1395) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) Prol. l. 117 Now hadde the tempre sonne..clothede hym [sc. the earth] in grene al newe a-geyn.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 696 Where be my gounes of scarlet,..blewes sadde & lighte, Grenes also, and þe fayre violet?
c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) l. 122 (MED) He was gerede alle in grene, alle with golde by-weuede.
1455 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1455/8/13 That all men of lawe that ar forspekaris for the cost haif habitis of grene.
a1500 (a1400) Ipomedon (Chetham) (1889) l. 4006 A hunter all in grene.
1560–1 in R. Adam Edinb. Rec. (1899) II. 121 Thre elnis and ane half of Frenche grein to covre the ministers burd.
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 112 Would not exchange his royal purple for a forresters green.
a1700 Little Musgrave in J. Ritson Sel. Coll. Eng. Songs (1783) II. 215 The one of them was clad in green, The other was clad in pall.
1774 J. Bennet Poems Several Occasions 38 The grassy plain, so sprightly cloath'd in green, And flow'ry mead, no longer can be seen.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xi. 156 He once was seen A Squire's Attendant, clad in Keeper's Green.
1895 T. Hardy Jude vi. xi. 512 On the opposite side of the river, on the crowded barges, were gorgeous nosegays of feminine beauty, fashionably arrayed in green, pink, blue, and white.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xv. 258 She was dressed all in green, with a kirtle which scarcely reached her ankles and left her foot in the stirrup clear.
1986 H. Engel City called July (1987) vii. 78 I could see him in his operating-room greens worrying about a parking ticket.
1994 Malahat Rev. Spring 9 Some belled goats forage by a white cottage, tended by a girl in green.
6. In plural.
a. The green parts, esp. the leaves, of a plant or flower. Now chiefly in turnip greens n. at turnip n. Compounds 2, or as merging into senses B. 6c or B. 6d.
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the world > plants > part of plant > head or heart > [noun] > green parts
greensc1450
herb1662
herbage1701
c1450 (?c1425) E. Hull tr. Seven Psalms (1995) 37 God..aperyd in many maners as in þe flamme of fyre in þe myddyl of a bosche, whiche fyre wastyd not þe bosche neþer þe grenys of þe bosche.
c1600 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 80 Take the leaues of Blew violetes seperated from theire stalkes and grenes.
1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husbandry (1668) ii. xvii. 84 That the wind and Sun may get into it, and dry the greens more sufficiently.
1770 L. Carter Diary 13 Feb. (1965) I. 356 A prodigious stock of peashaving greens etc.
1781 G. White Jrnl. 14 Oct. (1970) xiv. 196 The greens of turnips wither.
1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. (1819) ii. viii. 305 My hogs are now living wholly upon Swedish turnip greens.
1854 J. Blundell in Cottage Gardener 1 Dec. 164/2 I will also take the greens of a crop of Carrots, at 6 tons per acre, value 4s. 6d. per ton—27s.
1907 Alabama Med. Jrnl. 19 151 There is one question that I have been paying a good deal of attention to..in ulcerated bowels and dysentery, and that is feeding patients on turnip greens.
1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 4 Feb. b3/2 Turnip greens..should be bright with little or no yellowing or shriveling.
†b. = duckweed n. Cf. grain n.1 4c. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies
endemetea1387
duckweedc1440
frog's foot1526
greens1526
duck's meat1538
water lentil1548
grain1578
fen lentil1601
Pistia1754
lemna1789
lentil-dew1800
water lettuce1847
Jenny Greenteeth1852
creed1880
1526 Grete Herball cclviii. sig. P.i De lentycula aque. Grenes, or ducke meate.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 58/2 Greens, Lemna minor.
c. Green vegetables or other plants used to feed animals. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder
bullimong1313
podder1468
tare1482
greens1607
lucerne1652
esperate1659
esparcet1669
tare-thistle1753
buckwheat1776
mangel-wurzel1787
mangold1848
sacate1848
sacaton1865
mangel-wurzel potato1875
mutter1875
ramon1885
cattle-bush1889
manna1897
beech-wheat-
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 111 When they [sc. rabbits] eat greenes they must not drinke at all, for if they do, it is hazzard but they will incurre the Dropsie.
1675 J. Blagrave New Additions Art Husbandry (new ed.) 111 When you perceive them [sc. canaries] begin to build and carry stuff, give them once a day, or in two days at least, a little Greens, and some Loaf-Sugar.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 192 Finding by the greens in its mouth it was not a beast of prey.
1863 H. P. Leland Americans in Rome iv. 82 One of them [sc. donkeys], ambitious of distinction, began clambering over the tops of the others in an insane attempt to get at some greens, temptingly displayed before him.
1978 W. Wharton Birdy (1980) 155 I go into the aviary with..dandelion greens or apple, things they like.
d. colloquial. Green vegetables used for food. Also occasionally in singular.Sometimes referring to specific types of green vegetable, esp. leafy varieties of brassica; cf. spring greens n. at spring n.1 Compounds 3e(a).
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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > collectively
garden stuff1599
kitchen-tillage1669
wintergreensa1691
greens1710
kitchen stuffc1710
green ware1736
green stuff1778
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > green vegetables
green meatc1450
wintergreensa1691
greens1710
green ware1736
green stuff1778
grass1867
1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. II. v. 86 One Spoonful more of Greens, my Dear, Eat freely, Love, and never fear..I know you like a Bit by th' by, That's hot and hot, as well as I.
1745 R. James Medicinal Dict. II. at Spinache Spinache, which is now so celebrated and useful a Green, seems unmention'd and unknown to the Antients.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 141 Greens, as wild celery, nettle-tops, etc.
1783 F. Burney Diary 13 Jan. (1842) II. 277 At Mr. Garrick's table, [he] called out to a very timid young woman to help him to some greens.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vi. 121 A few half-cold greens and potatoes.
1843 J. Pereira Treat. Food & Diet 382 The Cabbage Tribe includes the Cabbage (both white and red), the Savoy, Greens, the Cauliflower, and Broccoli.
1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 18 Dec. 315/1 A colossal amalgamation of cabbages, known in the precincts of the Brill, Somers Town..as a ‘green’.
1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. 125 The leaves [of the manioc]..make excellent ‘greens’.
1904 P. White Triumph Mrs. St. George viii Here was a real live soldier..eating mutton, potatoes, and greens—the usual Thursday stodge!—along with a lot of kids!
1906 Gardeners' Chron. 6 Oct. 250/1 It was agreed that no true test of the merits of any one variety [of kale] as a winter green could be furnished until the winter was well advanced.
?a1958 F. B. Farris From Rattlesnakes to Road Agents (1985) 11 It is surprising how many of the wild plants were good to eat. One of them was poke greens, which came up very early in the spring and tasted quite delicious.
2009 Guardian 12 Sept. (Travel section) 4/4 A farmhouse supper (greens from the vegetable garden and their own beef).
e. slang. Sexual activity, esp. intercourse.Frequently in to get one's greens and variants, with implication of something which is (like vegetables in the diet) needed regularly.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
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other thing1628
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commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 63 She kept the greens, for very few she sold; And, as her customers, the greens refuse, Why, then, the greens gave this fair maid the blues.
c1890 Stag Party For Sairy gets her Bottomfelt, John Henry gets his Greens.
1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 206/1 To have, get, or give one's greens, to enjoy, procure, or confer the sexual favour. Said indifferently of both sexes.
1963 L. Meynell Virgin Luck vii. 164 Mr. Cahill..is an adult male with healthy instincts. He wants his greens regularly.
1967 G. Greene May we borrow your Husband? 27 Why not go after the girl?.. She's not getting what I believe is vulgarly called her greens.
1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 259 To have, get or give one's greens, used for both sexes, is generally a slang phrase for heterosexual intercourse, meaning to enjoy, procure, or confer sexual favors.
7. A green pigment or dye.chrome, malachite, mountain, Paris, sap, Scheele's green, etc.: see the first element.For green as a colour, see sense B. 4a.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye
green1582
zinc green1847
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xix. f. 393v The Indiae, if it be not too much counterfeit, is the especiall grounde of greenes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Chevre Verd de chevre, a kind of sand whereof Painters make their greenes.
1733 School of Miniature 34 In working thereon with Green, it constantly weakens the Red which had first been laid on.
1879 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 949 Chromic oxide..forming one of the most permanent greens, called chrome-green.
1968 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 12) I. vi. 94/2 Dyes such as indocyanine green are the compounds most frequently used.
2001 P. Ball Bright Earth vii. 176 In England this pigment was called viridian. The Impressionists adored it, and it is Cezanne's definitive green.
8. In plural = green sickness n. 1. rare. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > deficiency of red cells > chlorosis
green sickness1547
maid's sickness1633
white jaundice1655
chlorosis1660
greens1719
white jaundice1728
chloraemia1890
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 313 The Maiden..that's vex'd with her Greens.
1961 Shakespeare Q. 12 49 Before deciding whether or not Falstaff could have had ‘the greens’, one would do well to examine the plays of Shakespeare wherein Falstaff is not mentioned for references to the sickness.
†9. A seton. Cf. sense A. 7b. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > seton
setonc1400
moche?1541
transforation1598
setace1656
green1781
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting viii. 115 A green, or seton, in the neck, is of great relief in most disorders of the eyes.
†10. Short for green man n. 1a or Jack in the green n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > characters in May-day festivities
May-lady1564
savage mana1577
green man1578
May Marian1582
May Queen1600
malkina1625
Jack o' the green1729
Jack-in-the-bush1792
Jack in the green1794
May Day sweep1832
green1836
Maid Marian1893
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 336 For some few years ago the dancing on May-day began to decline; small sweeps were observed to congregate in twos or threes, unsupported by a ‘green’.
11. In plural. In sugar manufacture: = green syrup n. at Compounds 1d(a).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > substance produced in
smear1843
greens1867
1867 C. D. Braun in Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie 6 463 (table) Grüner Syrup (greens).
1871 Bowdoin Sci. Rev. 17 Jan. 399 The last greens, after three successive crystallizations of sugar, are purified and sold as ‘golden syrup’.
1913 Louisiana Planter & Sugar Manufacturer 51 37/1 Gravity Filters No. 2—These serve all products in the..work of the ‘boiling’ house such as thick juice, high and low wash and greens and melted sugar.
1977 G. P. Meade & J. C. P. Chen Cane Sugar Handbk. (ed. 10) 428 The ‘run-off’ (or ‘greens’) from this last boiling is the standard ‘final molasses’.
12. In snooker and similar games: a green ball; (also) an attempt to pot a green ball.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > ball > ball of specific colour
carambole1775
red1779
white1779
black1866
green1889
1889 A. W. Drayson Art Pract. Billiards 110 The pink is placed on the spot in the centre of the table; the blue on the left spot of the baulk; the green in the centre of baulk.
1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 570/1 Brown on the middle of the baulk line; green on the left, and yellow on the right.
1946 Manch. Guardian 20 May 3/3 He took the yellow but failed on a very difficult green which hovered in the jaws of the pocket.
1984 Observer 6 May 35/3 He attempted an incredibly difficult green to the middle pocket.
1998 Pot Black Mag. Feb. 42/1 Both players had chances in the last but Fisher got control with a 24, fluking a green into the yellow pocket from the far middle knuckle.
13. Theatre. [Apparently short for rhyming slang greengage n. 2.] The stage, esp. in on the green.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [adverb] > on stage
on-stage1927
on the green1937
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 352/1 Green, stage: theatrical.
1940 Notes & Queries 29 June 462/2 ‘On the Green’ is perfectly good rhyming slang for ‘On the Greengage’ = on the stage. As such, it is familiar to every touring actor, stage-door keeper and stage-hand of over forty, and is in constant use to-day.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Dec. 742/1 If a modern producer asks his stage-manager to summon down a man from the flies, we might well hear the cry: ‘Bill, come down on the green a minute.’
1987 Daily Tel. 1 May 12/4 The old managers used to lay a green-baize cloth on the stage for performances, hence the saying, which I recall in use by the older generation of players when I was an absolute beginner, of seeing you ‘on the green’.
14. Particle Physics. [An arbitrary choice of one colour of a set of three, analogous to the three primary colours.] One of the three quark colours (colour n.1 24).Cf. earlier blue adj. 12.
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1975 F. E. Close in Acta Physica Polonica B. 6 789 Each of these quarks can come in three colours red, blue, or green.
1989 U. Mosel Fields, Symmetries, & Quarks ix. 156 r, g and b stand for the three colours (‘red’, ‘green’ and ‘blue’) and f represents the flavour index u, d, s etc.
2005 M. Livio Equation that couldn't be Solved vii. 220 Each quark flavor comes in three different colors, conventionally called red, green, and blue.
15. In plural. Also with capital initial. The members or supporters of an environmentalist political party; supporters of environmentalism, esp. as a political issue. Cf. sense A. 13.In early use particularly associated with the environmentalist party in West Germany (die Grünen).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > types of party generally (in various countries) > members of
national1792
social democrat1848
Labourist1884
Labourite1887
progressist1890
progressive1892
greens1978
1978 Economist 14 Jan. 39/2 The Greens are more likely to take votes from the Social Democrats and the Liberals than from the Christian Democrats.
1982 New Society 22 July 129/1 Die Grünen in Germany: a federation of broad interests forged..from three major citizen action groups... British greens believe such a federation is possible..here.
1983 Times 24 Feb. 17/8 It has to be recognized that the world's economic story is now developing in a manner that goes the Greens' way.
1986 New Socialist Sept. 4/2 If the government's greens..get their way, then the pollution from Drax B may yet be cleaned up.
2007 Guardian 5 May 7/5 The Lib Dems and perhaps the Greens, or even Tories, will promise to support the ruling party.

Phrases

P1. in the green tree [after Luke 23:31, post-classical Latin in viridi ligno (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ ξύλῳ] : under conditions of ease or plenty.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > in prosperous condition [phrase] > in easy circumstances > in conditions not involving stress or hardship
in the green treeOE
well at easec1330
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xxiii. 31 Quia si in uiridi ligno haec faciunt,in arido quid fiet : forðon uel gif in groene tree ðas doað in drygi uel in alde huæd bið uel worðes?
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 31 Forþam gif hig on grenum treowe þas þing doð, hwæt doð hig on þam drigean?
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxiii. 31 If thei don thes thingis in a grene tree, what schal be don in a drye?
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 16663 (MED) Quen suilk in grene tre es wroght, in dri sal mikel mare.
a1450 (a1400) Medit. Life & Passion of Christ (BL Add.) (1921) l. 1805 Ihesu seyde..‘Siþþe þei don þus in grene tre, Whan it sereþ how shal it be?’
1617 J. Hales Serm. Oxf. 11 The dangerous effects of this haue appeared, not in the greene tree only, in young heads, but in men of constant age, and great place in the Church.
1873 W. Bagehot Lombard St. x. 273 That which happened so marvelously in the green tree may happen also in the dry.
1890 W. E. Norris Adrian Vidal xiv If this was done in the green tree, what would be done in the dry?
1919 R. M. MacIver Labor in Changing World ii. 35 If these things happened in the green tree of abundant employment at good wages.., what shall be done now in the dry?
2009 T. Cahill Saint on Death Row vi. 129 If they do this in the green tree of Pennsylvania, the racially stacked juries of dry-tree Texas should come as no surprise.
P2. green old age: an old age that is full of vitality.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun]
eld971
old agec1330
agec1380
last agea1382
oldc1385
aldereldea1400
winterc1425
vilessec1430
annosityc1450
senectute1481
the black ox1546
golden years1559
years1561
great1587
afterlife1589
setting sun1597
antiquity1600
chair-daysa1616
the vale of yearsa1616
grandevity1623
green old age1634
eldship1647
senioritya1688
the other side of the hill1691
the decline of life1711
senectude1756
senility1791
senectitude1796
post-climacteric1826
Anno Domini1885
senium1911
golden age1946
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. i. v. 10 Those we say are beginning to grow old, or in their greene old-age.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiv. 134 His green old age seemed to be the result of health and benevolence.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 413 In youth his habits had been temperate; and his temperance had its proper reward, a singularly green and vigorous old age.
1989 J. Purdy Garments Living Wear xi. 52 First there was green old age, hardly different from middle age.
P3. Golf. through the green: on or along the whole area of the course, except for the putting green, the teeing ground of the hole being played, and the course hazards. rare.Used chiefly in descriptions of the rules of the game or course.
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1783 in C. B. Clapcott Rules of Golf (1935) 33 If a Ball, in playing thro' the Green, be stopt by the Player's partner.., it shall be played where it chance to ly.
1899 Spalding's Official Golf Guide 83 If the player's ball move the opponent's ball through the green, the opponent..may drop a ball (without Penalty) as near as possible to the place where it lay.
2005 B. Elliot Dobereiner's Golf Rules Explained (ed. 11) ii. 50 If your ball becomes so badly damaged that it is unfit for play,..you must place a ball during play through the green instead of dropping.
†P4. to keep the bones green: to maintain good health. Obsolete.
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1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 41 Tak' a skair, O' what may keep the banes just green.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. x. 240 Ye might..have gotten..a Commissaryship..to keep the banes green.
P5.
a. colloquial. to see anything green in one's eye and variants: to detect any signs of gullibility in a person. Cf. to see any green in one's eye at Phrases 5b. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase] > detect gullibility
to see anything green in one's eye1838
1838 Bentley's Misc. 4 177 ‘Do you see anything green in my eye?’ suddenly remarked Mr. Cumming. ‘Oh! la! what do you mean?’ responded Miss Julia.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 41/2 I'm not a tailor, but I understands about clothes, and I believe that no person ever saw anything green in my eye.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xxiv Do—you—see—anything—green—in this here eye?
1919 Overland Monthly Dec. 417/1 Bill went quite close to the man, pulled down an eye-lid, and asked: ‘Do you see anything green in my eye?’
b. to see any green in one's eye: to detect any indication of inexperience or gullibility (frequently in rhetorical questions). Similarly there is no green in one's eye.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > innocence or inexperience
viridity1825
to see any green in one's eye1842
verdancy1849
verdure1861
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [noun] > instance of
simplicity1574
niaiserie1832
to see any green in one's eye1842
1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 431/1 The men..now inquired, with expressive gestures, whether he saw any green in their eyes.
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (at cited word) ‘Do you see any green in my eye?’ ironical question in a dispute.
1883 G. D. Atkin House Scraps (1887) 161 Major P——'s unco' sly, There is no green about his eye.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. iii. 50 Sergeant, do you see any green in my eye?
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxii. 219 The governor, however, hadn't any green in his eye, so in despair Andy smuggled a letter to Dr John Dunmore Lang.
1966 O. Norton School of Liars vi. 106 ‘You don't have to believe all you hear.’.. He leant forward and pulled down his lower eyelid. ‘See any green, Mrs Sumner?’
2000 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 13 Apr. 31 ‘There is no green in my eye’ was once a common retort to something said that didn't ring true.
P6. green around (also about, at, in) the gills: (of a person) looking or feeling ill or nauseated. Cf. gill n.1 2a.
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1843 C. Dickens Let. 13 Oct. (1974) III. 580 I am at this moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills,..and fractious in the temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
1862 R. H. Newell Orpheus C. Kerr Papers I. 237 ‘Yer may take it for $250.’ ‘He turned green about the gills at that.’
1939 N.Y. Times 14 July 12/3 She stood by the rail an hour or more and then staggered down the gangplank... ‘Little green at the gills, she was,’ said our nautical informant.
1959 R. G. McCullough Fresh out of Wings 154 Miss Mama felt green about the gills to think what the result would be.
1991 New Age Jrnl. Apr. 60/2 [With] 110 pesticides in nonorganic raisins,..it's a wonder that Junior doesn't come home looking green around the gills.
2004 M. Cabot Boy meets Girl 169 ‘It must be the champagne,’ I said lamely, because I didn't want to admit that it was the sight of my boss that had caused me to go green around the gills.
P7. in the green: while in leaf; in the period of youthful growth or vigour. Cf. in the green tree at Phrases 1, and sense A. 10.
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1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxiii. 102 Thy leaf has perish'd in the green . View more context for this quotation
1886 C. H. Parkhurst Serm. 15 May in W. F. Crafts Sabbath for Man 267 All disobedience is anarchy, young anarchy, anarchy in the green.
1904 L. I. Guiney Robert Emmet 63 It reminds us what a network of beneficent will and forethought made up that intense nature, and how the perishing leaf was but in the green.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Apr. d7/5 And when clumps get too dense, it's best to move them ‘in the green’, she said, referring to the time after the plants flower, while the leaves are still green.
P8. green with envy (also jealousy): extremely envious.
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1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xliii The doctor was turning almost green with jealousy.
1881 Daily Tel. 5 July 2/2 Superbly modelled craft, whose lines would have made the old Baltimore clipper-builders green with envy.
1935 News (Frederick, Maryland) 30 Aug. 4/2 My new bucket hat has made her green with envy.
1948 Billboard 7 Feb. 45/1 Milton Berle's $15,000 for four days at the Miami Copa..is making other acts green with jealousy.
1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) v. 180 His sermons were great... I was as green as the tree in the manse garden with envy.
2006 G. Malkani Londonstani i. 3 An eloquence..that made me green with envy.
P9. to be not as green as one is cabbage-looking and variants: to be less of a fool than one might appear.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [adjective] > not
to be not as green as one is cabbage-looking1882
1882 Southern Argus (Goulburn, Austral.) 30 Sept. 4/1 The moral which the splitter extracted from the experience was to the effect that a man is not necessarily green because he is cabbage looking.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 4/1 I said I knew 'ow many beans made 5..and if I wor cabbage-looking I woren't green.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 299 Gob, he's not as green as he's cabbagelooking.
2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 156 ‘He wants to buy the place if he's able.’‘Aha... He's not as green as he's cabbage-looking.’

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the adjective.
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(a) Parasynthetic.Some of the following could be construed as instrumental compounds of the noun.
green-backed adj.
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1757 J. Hill Eden lvii. 679 (heading) Green back'd Ornithogalum.
1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 77 The green-backed cavally (gasterosteus Carolinus Lin.).
1890 L. Ensor tr. A. Daudet Jack iii. vii. 621 This little dingy shop, full of mouldy-smelling, green-backed books.
1911 Z. Grey Young Pitcher vii. 81 You green-backed freshman! Shut up! You scrub!
1999 Boat Angler May (Special ed.) 62/2 Sometimes even those green-backed, butter-bellied summer cod..will show.
green-bodied adj.
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1772 J. Fielding Let. 4 Nov. in Jrnl. Proc. J. Hewitt of Coventry (1790) sig. **4 The man shot by the Captain..had on a blue or green bodied coat, and a drab coloured surtout coat.
1839 R. Reeve in Mem. (1898) I. 104 A neat green-bodied glass chariot.
1918 W. Beebe Jungle Peace vi. 128 A green-bodied, green-legged grasshopper of good size.
2006 D. Emmett & G. Nice Understanding Street Drugs i. vii. 171 This solvent is contained in the green-bodied fire extinguishers that are still found in some commercial premises.
green-bordered adj.
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1765 W. Stevenson Orig. Poems I. 243 Before the door..Beds of selected flow'rs green-border'd lie.
1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 22 The green-bordered road was white with dust.
2005 Security Managem. Dec. 54 If you receive an attachment in an e-mail and click on it, a green-bordered box will open.
green-boughed adj.
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1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 257 The green-boughed forests by the lawns of Thames.
1892 Ann. Rep. Minnesota State Hort. Soc. 20 78 The green-boughed pine, cedar, spruce, balsam and other evergreens.
1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 13 Feb. b1 A green-boughed cedar that was barely singed.
green-breasted adj.
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a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) ii. 46 Teach her to slide..through the fluid veynes Of the green breasted stream-embroydred Plaines.
1797 G. Humphreys Museum Calonnianum viii. 77 Alcedo—Green-breasted King's Fisher.
1871 T. Bracken Behind Tomb 82 The isle of sorrow and of mirth, Green-breasted Innisfail.
1991 P. Matthiessen Afr. Silences iii. 138 The same brilliant color..flares again in the rump and tail of a green-breasted pitta.
green-capped adj.
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1832 Christian Examiner & Church of Ireland Mag. May 341 From the tops of her green-capped hills.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai x. 154 I saw..some green-capped boys marching.
2009 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 May d1 Huy Fong's trademark green-capped clear plastic squeeze bottles.
green-coloured adj.
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1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f.14v A mightie Obeliske of greene couloured stone of Lacedemonia.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 188 From the midst of these rises a round, smooth, straight, fresh, green coloured, three or four Foot long Stalk.
1881 Med. & Surg. Reporter 6 Aug. 162/1 He had eaten a portion of a green-colored crayon.
2002 M. Cronin & D. Adair Wearing of Green 166 Plastic green hats, green-coloured beer, cheap souvenirs and gaudy marketing have been part and parcel of America's St Patrick's Day.
green-curtained adj.
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1824 Lit. Magnet 2 196 Your anonymous, humble servant, established in a green-curtained box.
1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest i. 9 The green-curtained booths that lined the wall opposite the bar.
2008 Metro (Nexis) 15 Dec. 27 A green-curtained doorway.
green-decked adj.
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 From thence wee trauayled to the greenedeckt gaylye Donysa [L. viridemque Donusam].
1848 F. W. Taylor Broad Pennant xiii. 357 How go our hearts to the green-decked temples of worship.
1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 427 Snooker halls, with their darkness, their pyramids of light over the green-decked slabs of lead.
green-edged adj.
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1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea i. x. 149 There are before the wings two roundish tufts of feathers, which are green edged, and may be moved at pleasure.
1857 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. XI. 65 Nitrate of amyl burns with a faint green-edged flame.
1999 BBC Gardeners' World Apr. 130/3 Variations on the green-edged flowers began to appear.
green-faced adj.
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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 501 Greene-fac'd gardens, set at Florae's feet, Make Nature's beauty, quicke Appelles greet.
1824 J. Banim Revelations of Dead-alive iii. 33 The green-faced girl who looked in a terrified manner at me.
1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. v. 138 Green-faced and pitiful under an anaesthetic.
2001 N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 256 Danny re-appears greenfaced with his hand to his mouth.
green-feathered adj.
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1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 781 Paralysis flore viridi roseo calamistrato, The double greene feathered Cowslip.
1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain I. 17 Copper in blue crystals, with copper blossom and green feathered ore.
1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 291 The old Mexican deity, Quetzalcoatl, whose name we are told signifies green-feathered serpent.
1998 P. McCabe Breakfast on Pluto (1999) xxxvii. 139 A green-feathered dart sailed expertly towards the measled corkboard.
green-fringed adj.
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1686 London Gaz. No. 2126/4 A..Saddle green-fring'd round the Seat.
1831 J. K. Paulding Dutchman's Fireside I. xii. 112 The crystal waters lay sleeping within the green-fringed curtains of their waving banks.
1902 E. Lawless With Wild Geese 70 On soft red claws, and tender, green-fringed spears.
2009 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 14 Feb. (Features section) 16 Some of the people in these green-fringed, peri-urban areas are there because property prices are relatively low.
green-garbed adj.
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1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 302 The green-garbed ranger.
1936 H. H. Parkhurst Cathedral i. iv. 82 The green-garbed figures which constitute the foliage of the symbolic tree.
2009 Boston Globe (Nexis) 16 Mar. b3 (headline) Exuberant and green-garbed crowds partake in parade.
green-glazed adj.
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1712 Atlas Geographus III. 86/2 The Green Mosque, so call'd because its Steeple is fac'd and the Top cover'd with green glaz'd Bricks.
1891 J. E. Hodgkin & E. Hodgkin Examples Early Eng. Pottery Introd. 9 The Green-glazed Ware, with a buff body..is called Tudor ware.
2001 Oxoniensia 65 340 Speckled green-glazed jugs.
green-haired adj.
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1625 T. Hawkins tr. Horace Odes iii. xviii. 60 With mutuall Songs, weele Neptune please, And the greene-hayrd Nereides.
1714 W. Salmon Ars Anatomica v. ii. 283/2 Bartholinus says he has seen Green-Hair'd Men at Hasnia.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 21 The green-haired forest.
1998 New Yorker 9 Nov. 90/2 A punkishly green-haired Ariel.
green-hued adj.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 41 Ane holyn hewinlie grein hewit.
1788 Monthly Rev. 78 App. 596 The other animal..is called by M. Vosmaer, Taupe verdâtre luisante, or Glossy green-hued Mole.
1849 J. Kenyon Day at Tivoli 111 Little waves, their white foams wreathing, The green-hued deeps were fleecing o'er.
1992 R. Kenan Let Dead bury their Dead iv. 77 A silvery-steel pan full of green-hued collard and mustard leaves.
green-hearted adj.
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1641 J. Vicars tr. F. Herring November 5. 1605 14 Gray-headed, but green-hearted traitour right.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxvii. 366 He is such a cheery fellow... Fresh and green-hearted!
1913 A. Logan Princ. & Pract. School Gardening viii. 143 The only blooms to be had are undersized, ill-formed and often green-hearted.
2002 High Country News 14 Oct. 2/4 A more diverse menagerie of Westerners started appearing in these pages: green-hearted ranchers and blue-collar environmentalists.
green-leafed adj.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xx. 469 It continueth alwaies green leafed, beareth flowers like roses, and brauncheth very thicke.
1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. I. 535 One-fifth or one-fourth part of the tillage lands is yearly in fallow or turnips; one-fifth or one-fourth under a green-leafed grass.
1906 E. Nesbit Story of Amulet 129 The children found themselves under a white-blossomed, green-leafed fruit-tree.
2009 Daily Tel. 4 Aug. 3/6 The farmers create the murals by planting purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru roman variety.
green-leaved adj.
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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvii. l. 279 The bowes þat bereþ nat and beeþ nat grene-leuede.
1596 J. Norden Christian Familiar Comfort Ep. Ded. Who looking vppon the greene leaued figge tree of our profession..findeth it not answerable to his expectation.
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 39 It will be still Greene leaved.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Dict. II. 53 Varieties:..Green-leaved red Beet.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 61 Green-leaved Hound's-tongue.
1990 Garden Answers Nov. 52/3 The green leaved varieties of leaf beet are quite striking.
green-legged adj.
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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 299 The green-leg'd Horseman.
1804 Jrnl. 22 Sept. in Hist. Exped. Lewis & Clarke (1817) II. App. 604 A little foggy this morning: a great number of green-legged plover are passing down the river.
1911 J. L. Hancock Nature Sketches Temperate Amer. 406 The green-legged species is very inconspicuous.
2003 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 3 Oct. 1 a Corn Cob Man, the green-legged hero during his school days in the early 1960s.
green-mantled adj.
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1591 A. Fraunce Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch sig. C2 By the greene-mantled pastures and watery fountaines Lou's yong wanton waggs were always woont to be singing.
1654 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence 47 The Pine-plow'd sea. The Green-mantled earth.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. viii. 94/2 A huge Troglodyte Chasm, with frightful green-mantled pools.
1916 B. Carman April Airs 28 When green-mantled spring shall come Past thy door with flute and drum.
2007 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Sport section) 7 This beautiful stadium, ringed by Kandy's green-mantled hills, is full of fond memories.
green-painted adj.
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1712 Daily Courant 14 Mar. Inquire at the said House, being next to the Green Painted Door in the said Square.
1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 22 The surroundings are a tall slip-shed, a taller black-shed, fronted by a..green-painted crane.
1903 N.Y. Times 31 Oct. 9/5 Of interest to the woman who keeps a good many plants in a small space is a watering pot of ordinary green-painted tin.
2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon xxiii. 340 He'd glued a metal plate to the bottom of the green-painted wood.
† green-recessed adj. Obsolete rare
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1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 11 Into the green-recessed woods they flew.
green-ribbed adj.
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1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 663 [Asplenium viride] Green-ribb'd Maidenhair. Anglis.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 308 Green-ribbed Spleenwort.
1855 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 28 Apr. 260/1 Its green-ribbed calyx and lower growth.
1900 New Eng. Mag. June (Book notes) 2/2 A daisy chain in colors encircles the lovely green-ribbed cover.
1993 Your Garden May 64/1 Use a sprinkler hose such as Hozelock's green-ribbed, PVC lay-flat version.
green-seeded adj.
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1831 Naturalist 1 342 The green seeded [cotton] is equally or more productive in the upper country, and according to soil, seed and care, the acre produces from 60 to 300 pounds of clean cotton wool.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. i. 7 We say ‘as like as two peas’, but one pea in a pod may develop into a tall, yellow-seeded plant and its neighbour into a dwarf, green-seeded plant.
2006 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 29 Jan. (Home & Garden) 1 Green-seeded soybeans, called edamame, make a delicious high-protein snack.
green-shaded adj.
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1762 J. Macpherson Fingal v. 63 Rocks tumble from their places on high; the green-shaded bushes are overturned.
1866 E. J. Worboise Sir Julian's Wife xiv. 200 And with her customary docility she had done exactly as she was bidden: lying down in the cool green-shaded drawing-room; not reading, and trying not to think.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 6/2 A green~shaded city nestling oasis-like in its arena.
2008 P. Hensher Northern Clemency 535 She sat in the warm pool of light cast by the green-shaded Tiffany lamp.
green-shadowed adj.
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a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 31 Free from the clamour of the troubled Court, We may enjoy our own greene shadowed walkes.
1854 ‘G. Greenwood’ Haps & Mishaps 19 Every hill & green~shadowed vale..spoke to my heart.
1955 P. Larkin Less Deceived 36 Green-shadowed people sit, or walk in rings.
2007 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 16 Nov. a17 His milieu is the green-shadowed swamps and tar-paper shacks tourists never see.
green-sheathed adj.
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1825 Philos. Mag. 66 281 A. (green-sheathed narrow-leaved).
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott i, in Poems (new ed.) 8 The greensheathèd daffodilly.
1996 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 17 May b1 Julie..and Becky..were to drive the green-sheathed car.
green-striped adj.
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1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian (new ed.) 27 Each of them [sc. campions] standing in large green striped hairy Husks, large and round below next to the Stalk.
1710 London Gaz. No. 4786/4 A green strip'd Poplin Mantua and Petticoat, lined with a white Antherine.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 191 Greenstriped onions.
1990 Great Hospitality Sept. 71/2 Tables are set with pink linens over green-striped skirts.
green-suited adj.
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1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 226 All the court Green-suited, but with plumes that mock'd the may, Had been, their wont, a-maying.
1997 D. Johnson Le Divorce 165 A green-suited street worker who made me sit back down.
green-throated adj.
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1776 Catal. Birds in Edwards's Nat. Hist. IV. 12 Red breasted and green throated humming birds.
1861 J. Gould Monogr. Trochilidæ II Delattria viridipallens, Green-throated Cazique.
1991 Shepherd's Garden Seeds Catal. 32/1 Heat-resistant new Verano is a classic Batavian-style lettuce with green-throated wavy leaves, tender-crisp hearts and succulent crunchy texture.
green-tinged adj.
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?1770 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens First Bk. Lusiad 29 Unplow'd before, the green-ting'd billows rose, And curl'd and whiten'd round the nodding prows.
1870 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 712/1 A few stunted shrubs, which quiver in the heat, like green-tinged tongues of flame.
1955 B. C. L. Kemp Elem. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xxv. 318 An inflammable substance containing halogen often gives a green-tinged flame.
2007 Eve July 145/1 Every summer, we're inundated with questions on how to beat sun-frazzled frizz and green-tinged highlights.
green-tinted adj.
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1806 C. Cuthbertson Santo Sebastiano IV. xv. 291 Swift his now green-tinted eyes darted towards the organ.
1928 Times 9 Feb. 17/4 They carried bouquets of green tinted orchids.
2000 S. Heighton Shadow Boxer iii. ii. 309 ‘Don't sweat yourself!’ he called, his eyes blurred behind big, green-tinted glasses.
green-topped adj.
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1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry III. 151 The red or purple topped, and the large green topped turneps.
1830 W. Withering Brit. Plants. (ed. 7) IV. 185 Large Green-topped Agaric.
1902 Boston Globe 18 Aug. 8/3 The green-topped mountains and the beautiful waters of Champlain and Memphremagog present a picture to the summer sojourner.
2008 P. Hensher Northern Clemency 535 She sat in the warm pool of light cast by the green-shaded Tiffany lamp over the green-topped leather desk.
green-turfed adj.
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1759 J. Fortescue Diss., Ess. & Disc. I. 31 Hoary time, O'er moss-grown fragments, and the green-turf'd lands, Marks out the next.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick liv. 279 For days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile, he indolently floats.
1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 101 Meek harebell hung her head Over the green-turfed chalk.
2007 Canberra Times (Nexis) 4 June a4 A neatly clipped expanse of green-turfed lawn offers no food or habitat for native butterflies.
green-waved adj.
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1764 Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. Oct. 1113/2 The green-wav'd ocean with amazement roars.
c1826 Sir Patrick Spens xv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 22/2 I see the green-waved sea.
1916 C. S. Yost Patience Worth 150 Afield the grasses glint, and breeze doth seeming set aflow the current o' a green-waved stream.
1994 R. J. Arobateau Laughter of Witch 12 We carry our freedom, perpetually. Eagle fast! Over the green waved bays.
(b) Complementary.
† green-dropping adj. Obsolete
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1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Hv She crop's the stalke, and in the breach appeares, Green-dropping sap, which she compares to teares. View more context for this quotation
1691 T. D'urfey Pindarick Poem i. 1 Triumphant Neptune clear'd his stormy Brow, Curl'd his green dropping Locks.
green-glimmering adj.
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1814 J. Hogg Hunting of Badlewe iii. iv. 81 She has..sung the hymns of God On yon green glimmering star.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Lancelot & Elaine 482 in Idylls of King A wild wave..Green-glimmering toward the summit.
1966 E. Wilkins & E. Kaiser tr. R. Musil Five Women 49 Flames of a camp-fire rising..like a tree-trunk of golden dust in green-glimmering woodland.
green-growing adj.
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1780 in J. Smith Galic Antiq. 214 On either side, a fair branch lifted its green-growing head.
1841 H. W. Longfellow Children Lord's Supper 81 E'en as the green-growing bud is unfolded when spring-tide approaches.
1999 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 21 Nov. a4 Beautiful, healthy, green-growing grass not only provides food for cattle, it provides habitat for all kinds of wildlife.
green-grown adj.
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1618 W. Lithgow Pilgrimes Farewell sig. H Heere on this greene growne Hill, I spreade my Table, Well couerd ou'r, with Leaues of diuerse sortes.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1957) II. 182 Thanks, kindest Nature! for those floating gems, Those green-grown isles, with which you lavish strew Great Neptune's empire.
1807 D. Wordsworth in Mem. of Coleorton (1887) I. 220 The floor of the alley..is simply meant to be green-grown, which it will in a short time be with short moss.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. I. i. 9 Green-grown the timbers of the royal barge, That shoot out branches then and golden buds.
1941 P. Goodman in Five Young Amer. Poets 42 It is the lordly Hudson hardly flowing..under the green-grown cliffs.
green-shining adj.
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1823 La Belle Assemblée Jan. 23/1 The fairy chieftainess had exhorted her ‘green-shining people’ to daily and nightly vigilance, for the purpose of entrapping some little lovely girl, with a suitable mate of the other sex.
1858 Ld. Tennyson Let. July (1987) II. 204 One great wave, green-shining, past..high up beside the vessel.
1904 H. D. Rawnsley Flower-time in Oberland iv. 48 Then the eye ranges over the snowfields and the green shining glaciers, and silver shining ice slopes.
2004 R. A. Salvatore Immortalis xv. 184 Dasslerond was holding a gemstone of her own, a green-shining emerald.
b. Modifying colour words to form adjectives and nouns with the senses ‘greenish’, ‘greeny-’.
green-black adj.
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1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 26 Bill and Legs lead-colour... A green-black spot on each side of the Head.
1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 281 Leaving this oxide in green-black, anhydrous, lustrous crystals.
1968 A. K. Armah Beautyful Ones are not yet Born ix. 145 He kicked aside pieces of old shells lying on the green-black sand.
2003 K. Sampson Freshers 109 I sit on the cold step. I stare blankly out at a green-black Sheffield sky.
green-blue adj.
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1685 tr. F. M. van Helmont Paradoxal Disc. iv. ii. 97 Both these Sulphurs by reason of their strict union commonly flie away together in the fire, in the appearance of a Green-blue flame.
1844 L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees: Legendary Tour II. 41 A broad space of clear green-blue sky was seen.
1991 World Press Rev. Nov. 59/1 All resorts have rooms or cottages that have not only a sea view but doors that lead out directly to the ubiquitous sugar-white sand and green-blue sea.
green-gold n. and adj.
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1796 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist’s Misc. VIII. sig. A6 Copper-coloured Buprestis with a gloss of green-gold; the wing-shells wrinkled, and bidentated at the extremities.
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Ibis—Glossy The bird, in flying, appears gilded when the sun shines upon it; quills green-gold, and when closed reach the end of the tail.
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 602/2 That green-gold beetle, the most splendid of British insects.
1961 F. Leiber Big Time (1969) 37 The green-gold markings made him look like a merman.
2002 Derbyshire Life & Countryside Nov. 125/2 Dry, sharp, with purity of fruit, perhaps appley,..it is steely fresh with green-gold glints that flash from the glass.
green-golden adj.
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1704 Nat. Hist. vi, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 218 The Green-Golden Humming-Bird.
1874 Harper's Mag. Dec. 45/2 The paper in the large dining-room..harmonizes well with the red carpet, the pictures, and the green-golden lustres of the velvet curtains.
1987 T. Horton Bay Country (1989) ii. 20 I pity anyone who has never..snuggled in the crotch of a willow while the wind and sun fooled with its green-golden tresses.
green-grey n. and adj.
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1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar iv. xiii, sig. K I hate as perfectly this gray-greene of yours, As old Antonio's greene-gray.
1868 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 240 Light on steep green-grey slopes.
1876 ‘S. Tytler’ What She came Through xli The green-grey or ‘water of the Nile’, dear to the hearts of artists.
1998 A. Taylor Suffocating Night xxxvii. 259 There was the green-grey trunk of the beech—the roots that splayed out from the base like arthritic serpents.
green-reddish adj.
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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole cix. 417 This single yellow Rose..often groweth to a good height, his stemme being great and wooddy,..of a darke colour somewhat reddish, the barke of the young shootes being of a sad greene reddish colour.
1829 London Encycl. I. 710/1 A green-reddish colour.
2006 R. S. Vizgirdas & E. M. Rey-Vizgirdas Wild Plants Sierra Nevada 61 Mosquito Fern..floats on the surface of the ponds, ditches, and other slow or sluggish waters. From a distance, it looks like a green-reddish carpet floating over the surface.
green-yellow adj.
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1604 T. Winter tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Third Dayes Creation 20 Their bloud doth soile the blew-green-yellow grounds, Their bodies couerd are with deadly wounds.]
1611 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 578 A short Beak bending like the Egles brood: Green-yellow eyes, where Terrors Tent is pight.
1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 297 From black, becoming blue-green, green-yellow, deep-red.
1998 Your Garden Oct. 68/1 (advt.) English Garden Apples... Ashmeads Kernel: A variety for the connoisseur with large green-yellow fruits with a distinctive, aromatic sweet flavour.
c. Forming compound adjectives with the names of other colours, as green-and-gold, etc.
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1811 W. J. Burchell Jrnl. 29 Dec. in Trav. Interior S. Afr. (1822) I. xix. 502 The Green-and-gold Cuckoo was found in abundance.
1882 H. de Windt On Equator 100 The Brookeana, a beautifully-marked green-and-black butterfly.
1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 225/1 In an old satchel he carried a crazy collection of brushes, lamp-black, dried up paints, and the green-and-gold diploma of a ‘fingerprint institute’ in Washington.
1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 66 Most house fronts are tiled, so that they look trellised by some intricate green-and-blue or green-and-yellow flowering plant.
2009 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl who played with Fire i. 7 She saw the woman walk to one of the green-and-white striped chaises-longues beside the pool.
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green acres n. arable land (see quot. 1812), open fields; estates.
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1812 E. Wakefield Acct. Ireland I. vii. 247 The Marquis of Hertford has in this county 64,000 green acres, by which term I mean land capable of tillage, independently of bog or mountain land.
1856 ‘W. March’ Shoepac Recoll. xxi. 207 I would exchange all other earthly success for the ownership of that habitation and these green acres.
1923 Outing Apr. 8/2 Women and children are stooping over green acres picking strawberries.
1999 M. Shoard Right to Roam p. vii I looked longingly at the green acres and inviting waters of the lakes, park, and woods of Luton Hoo, a large landed estate on my doorstep whose delights were almost completely out of bounds.
† green apron n. depreciative Obsolete a lay preacher; cf. apron n. 2.Earliest in attributive use.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > lay
prophet1560
green apron1654
lay preacher1747
local preacher1765
local1824
1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 145 It more befits a Green-apron-Preacher, than such a Gamaliel.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 17 Unbeneficed Non-Con's (that live by Alms, and no Paternoster no Peny, says the Green-Aprons).
1791 M. Davis Thoughts on Dancing 24 The women among the people called Quakers have almost universally laid aside the green apron, and neither men nor women are so exact in the cut of their clothes..as they were but half a century ago.]
green architecture n. (a) architectural elements in a garden or park formed from hedges, trees, or other vegetation; (b) = eco-architecture n. at eco- comb. form 4.
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1852 S. S. Cox Buckeye Abroad 220 We came into splendid flower and fruit gardens—tastefully arbored and arched with the green architecture, in multiform beauty, on every side.
1906 Notes & Queries 13 Jan. 39/1 Even the ‘green architecture’ itself formed a pleasant picture for the eye.
1989 Independent 6 May 35/5 There is a new green architecture emerging..that is as socially and as ecologically responsible as it is elegant and inspiring to live in.
2001 J. Clifton Climbing Gardens 41/2 These gardens remain the inspiration and primary reference for classical grandeur and formality, which was further emphasized by the use of topiary for green architecture and eye-catching features.
2009 J. Kellerman Evidence 141 The only thing we've heard..about your brother is he was into green architecture, the whole environment thing.
Green Beret n. a member of one of the special operations forces having a green beret as part of their uniform, esp. those in the British Army (the Commandos) and later the United States Army Special Forces.The green beret was adopted by the British Commandos in 1942 and later, unofficially, by the U.S. Army Special Forces, becoming part of their official uniform in 1961.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]
spahi1562
legionnaire1595
strelitz1603
Croat1623
deli1667
Croatian1700
lancer1712
highlander1725
lambs1744
royals1762
light-bob1778
fly-slicer1785
Life Guardsman1785
royals?1795
Hottentot1796
yeoman1798
pandour1800
Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811
forty-two man1816
kilty1842
Zouave1848
bumblerc1850
Inniskilliner1853
blue cap1857
turco1860
Zou-Zou1860
mudlark1878
king's man1883
Johnny1888
Piffer1892
evzone1897
horse gunner1897
dink1906
army ranger1910
grognard1912
Jock1914
chocolate soldier1915
Cook's tourist1915
dinkum1916
Anzaca1918
choc1917
ranger1942
Chindit1943
Desert Rat1944
Green Beret1949
1943 Times 6 May 3/1 (advt.) The green berets of the Special Service Brigade are now a familiar and heartening sight at home and abroad.]
1949 H. St. G. Saunders (title) The Green Beret. The story of the Commandos.
1955 Mountaineer (Fort Carson, Colorado) 2 Dec. Twelve of the green beret Special Forces troops will jump in the next test scheduled today.
1964 C. B. Colby Special Forces 18 In the top photo a ‘Green Beret’ takes to the air over the cornice of a hotel.
1970 A. Sinclair Guevara iii. 40 Che['s]..manual..even serves as a text-book for the Green Berets and other North American counterinsurgency special forces.
1970 Sunday Times 22 Nov. 23/6 Southampton [football team], as notorious as the Green Berets for their policy of search and destroy.
2002 Esquire Aug. 111/1 They went to the school the Green Berets attended in Fort Bragg to learn advanced high-altitude, low-opening techniques.
green book n. any of various official (esp. governmental) documents bound in green; cf. blue book n.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [noun] > with specific type of back or cover
blue book1633
green book1798
paperback1843
paper cover1843
yellowback1859
flat-back1888
greenback1893
paperbound1933
softback1951
hardback1953
hardcover1953
pocketbook1953
softcover1953
trade paperback1960
1798 W. Coxe Mem. Sir R. Walpole I. xxi. 148 Knight..escaped from England, soon after his first examination, carrying with him the register called the green book.
1892 Times 14 Apr. 7/3 The results of these studies stand embodied in a ‘Green-book’, of extraordinary interest.
1928 Observer 5 Feb. 16/2 He knows far too much to be able to accept the whole policy laid down in the Green Book, and accepted by his party.
1966 tr. M. Toscano Hist. Treaties & Internat. Politics ii. ii. 95 Neither are the Italian government's Green Books free of these weaknesses, but, like their British counterparts, they contain omissions..rather than outright alterations.
green break v. originally and chiefly U.S. transitive to train (an unbroken horse or other animal) to accept harness, basic commands, etc., as a prelude to more advanced training; cf. A. 8c.
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1941 Moberly (Missouri) Monitor-Index 5 Nov. 2/2 Mr. Burton had worked this colt and had it green broke.
1961 Washington Post 1 Nov. c5/1 Purchasing near-wild Indian ponies from a nearby reservation and then ‘green breaking’ them for a quick sale at small profit.
1982 Los Angeles Times 7 Dec. (San Diego County Business section) d/4 Earls also supplements his income by ‘green-breaking’ new horses at the stables.
2004 D. Stevens Making of Lawman xi. 61 I always ‘green broke’ the colts... Being younger and the boss, I figured it was my responsibility to get them started in their training.
green broke adj. originally and chiefly U.S. of a horse or other animal: newly or partially broken in; cf. A. 8c.
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1903 Adams County Union-Republican (Corning, Iowa) 30 Sept. 3/5 1 span 3-year-old mules, green broke, sound, weight 2100.
1977 Chicago Tribune 6 Nov. (TV Week section) 6/1 Garrett acquired a lot of experience riding green-broke horses while making spaghetti Westerns with Jack Palance, Jim Brown, and Lee Van Cleef in Israel for five months.
2010 D. Aadland In Trace of TR iii. 67 This matter of herding horses on a green broke animal so recently part of a free-running herd boggles the mind and tightens the belly of any true horseman.
green broken adj. originally and chiefly U.S. = green broke adj.
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1906 Iowa Recorder (Greene, Iowa) 25 Apr. 4/5 Barney Dougherty sold three choice Idolator colts, green broken only, to Harry Marsh.
1937 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 17 Apr. 3/1 Our neighbor bought them when they were just green broken colts and he brought them along slowly.
2008 J. Rhodes Dark Ferryman xxii. 180 ‘What have you brought us? Green-broken horses?’ ‘Only the best from our lands but far from wild.’
green butter n. butter combined with herbs or other savoury ingredients; (also) a type of vegetable fat (see quot. 1938).
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter
May-butter?a1425
clarified butter1562
pot-butter1616
manteca1622
grass butter1648
green butter1654
drawn butter1661
cacao butter1662
ghee1665
rowen1673
ruskin1679
orange butter1696
whey-buttera1722
rowen butter1725
fairy butter1747
grease1788
Cambridge butter1830
stubble-butter1856
black jack1858
maître d'hôtel butter1861
Normandy butter1868
creamery butter1881
pound butter1888
renovated butter1888
samn1888
process butter1898
pool butter1940
garlic butter1942
yak butter1962
Normandy1973
cannabutter1994
1654 J. Cooper Art of Cookery 15 Lay on the Chickens yolks of Eggs cut into quarters, puffe-Paste, Lozanges, Sheeps tongues fryed in greene Butter.
1889 A. B. Marshall Cookery Bk. ii. 38 Montpellier or green butter.
1938 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) II. 187/2 ‘Green butters’ (i.e. vegetable tallows which may be coloured artificially to resemble Borneo tallow).
1965 Sunday Times 5 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 96/2 To make Green Butter; cream butter with garlic..chopped parsley..lemon juice, salt and pepper.
1995 Ashmolean Winter–Spring 23/1 Recipes ranging from scallop soup, chive mousse and green butter to Woolton Pie and (bemusingly) microwaved porridge.
green charge n. gunpowder whose ingredients have been mixed but have not yet undergone the incorporating process.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > explosive for use with firearms > in specific form or state
corn-powder1562
train1587
meal-powder1782
green charge1825
gunpowder cake1839
mill-cake1839
presscake1839
pellet powder1868
prismatic powder1869
pebble powder1870
pebble1872
prismatic1894
1825 Times 24 Oct. 3/3 They..empty the green charge into the bed which is milled for the time above stated, and then arrives at the strength of powder.
1896 Globe 10 Nov. 3/3 A ‘greencharge explosion’ took place at Messrs.—— Gunpowder Mills.
2006 W. S. Curtis in B. J. Buchanan Gunpowder, Explosives & State xii. 242 From whence did Rains acquire the concept of steaming the green charge?
green chop n. U.S. Agriculture fodder harvested and chopped up while still green, and typically fed to animals immediately; cf. green crop n.
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1954 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 2 Apr. 11/7 Now you can afford green chop!
1965 Jrnl. Range Managem. 18 342/2 The research project should include yield tests, feeding value of pasturage, hay, silage, and green chop.
1995 L. D. Lewis Equine Clin. Nutrition iv. 94/2 Green chop is not commonly fed to horses.
green chop v. U.S. Agriculture transitive to harvest and chop up (a fodder crop) while the crop is still green, typically in order to feed animals immediately; also intransitive; cf. soil v.4 1.
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1956 Nevada State Jrnl. 24 Feb. 8 Green chopping alfalfa for 40 dairy cows is a daily job.
1977 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 11 May iv. 9/6 In southern Wisconsin there are a few farmers green chopping for their herds.
2006 D. A. Dzombak et al. Cyanide in Water & Soil 32 Sudan grass should not be grazed or green chopped until it reaches a height of at least 45 to 50cm.
green chopping n. U.S. Agriculture the action or practice of harvesting and chopping up a fodder crop while it is still green, typically in order to feed animals immediately; cf. soiling n.4 1.
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1955 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 13 July 3/4 There are some minor disadvantages to green chopping.
1970 Columbus (Nebraska) Telegram 20 July 2/2 Green chopping can be used and has several advantages compared to grazing.
2003 D. R. Heldman Encycl. Agric., Food, & Biol. Engin. 358/1 Other harvest methods include grazing, green chopping, pelletizing, and direct-cut ensiling.
green circle n. North American (a symbol denoting) a ski run suitable for beginners.
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1971 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 16 Feb. 19/3 At almost all lift houses there are National Ski Patrol signs outlining ability requirements. The easiest slope is marked with a green circle sign; the more difficult one with a blue square and the most difficult with a black diamond.
1983 Skiing Spring 39/1 Try it first on an easy (green-circle) slope. Then, as you improve, move to more difficult (blue-square) slopes and mogul fields.
2002 E. R. McManus Seizing your Divine Moment 163 You're a beginner. The green circle is where you stay... Do not, I repeat, do not go to the black diamonds.
† green coffer n. Obsolete (perhaps) a strongbox covered with green cloth.
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1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 33 (MED) I yeve and be qwethe to the seid Jone, my nece, a lityl grene coffre for kerchys.
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 65 Thys Countyng-house hathe assigned hym one charyotte complete & a sompter horse for the grene coffyrs.
1858 R. Chambers Domest. Ann. Scotl. I. 530 His countess..was accused..of having stolen a green coffer belonging to him, containing money and other valuables.
green-collar adj. [after blue-collar adj., white-collar adj.] (a) (originally) of or designating work involving plants or horticulture; (now chiefly) of or designating work relating to the protection or preservation of the environment; (b) of or designating (corporate) crime or fraud relating to the environment; cf. white-collar crime n. at white-collar n. and adj. Compounds.
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1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City 3 Ned Lockwood, a brawny forty-two-year-old who was practically the working model for the Green-collar Gay.
1990 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 13 Apr. There's too much ‘green-collar’ fraud in the marketplace.
1992 Sci. News 25 Jan. 50/2 An overview of the rise of environmentalism and environmental business and the increase in demand for ‘green-collar’ workers.
2004 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 95 133 (title of article) Sentencing the green-collar offender: punishment, culpability, and environmental crime.
2008 Observer 27 Apr. (Business & Media section) 3/2 The sector..could create thousands of ‘green collar’ jobs, as the environment industry expands.
green crop n. a crop used for fodder or food while in a green or unripe state, as opposed to a crop of grain, hay, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > other crops
fleece1513
white crop1743
green crop1744
root crop1772
row crop1776
robber1777
mix-grass1778
breaking-crop1808
industrial crop1818
foliage crop1831
kharifa1836
scourge-crop1842
overcrop1858
by-crop1880
coppice-with-standards1882
sewage grass1888
trap-crop1899
cleaning crop1900
nurse crop1907
cover crop1909
smother crop1920
stoop crop1928
snatch crop1937
break crop1967
wholecrop1968
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Apr. ix. 87 Sowing Thetches, and feeding their green Crops off with Cattle kept in the Field.
1842 C. W. Johnson Farmer's Encycl. 585/2 Green crops, crops which are consumed on the farm in their unripe state.
1954 R. H. Cochrane Farm Machinery & Tractors (ed. 2) 71 The handling of a green crop after it has been cut by a mower is an arduous business.
2009 Brantford (Ont.) Expositor (Nexis) 30 May c1 Some people pick them [sc. tomatoes] green to fry or make into green tomato relish, so we can count them as a green crop.
green cross adj. [after German Grünkreuz (c1915)] now historical designating an artillery shell, marked with a green cross, which releases poisonous gas, originally used at Ypres during the First World War (1914–18); (also) designating the gas (a mix typically including phosgene) released by such a shell.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > poisonous gas shell
green cross1916
1916 Times 6 Oct. 8/1 One German light field howitzer battery..fired over 3,500 rounds of gas shells (known as ‘green cross’ shells) in 24 hours.
1928 Daily Express 22 May 1/2 An immense steel flask of phosgene, the notorious Green Cross poison gas employed by Germany with such deadly effect during the war.
1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 (ed. 3) 314 Green cross shell, an enemy gas-shell of an emetic and lachrymatory nature.
2000 R.-D. Müller in R. Chickering & S. Förster Great War, Total War ii. v. 104 A large-scale deployment at Verdun on June 22, 1916, so drenched the French troops in green cross gas that their protective masks proved ineffective.
Green Cross Code n. (also with lower-case initial in third element) British a set of guidelines (intended esp. for children) for crossing the road safely, introduced in 1971 and subsequently incorporated in the Highway Code; also in extended use.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > parts of road > [noun] > part where pedestrians can cross > routine for crossing road
road drill1907
kerb drill1948
Green Cross Code1971
1971 Times 29 Apr. 4/1 A new kerb drill for children is to replace the ‘look right, left and right again’ roadside slogan... The Green Cross code could be taught to and understood by children of seven and over.
1987 A. Scher & C. Verrall Another 100+ Ideas for Drama vi. 92 The child ran into the road after a ball, without heeding the Green Cross Code.
1997 Guardian 16 July t14 This is your chance to improvise a Green Cross Code for the beach.
2004 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 8 My mother would force-feed me the Green Cross Code with such demented vigour that it remains embedded in my brain to this day. I can't even cross my fingers without first looking right, left and right again.
green curry n. any of various curry dishes having a green colour; (now) spec. a type of Thai curry which takes its colour from a seasoning mixture containing green chillies (cf. green curry paste n.).
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1804 ‘Ignotus’ Culina 137 (heading) A green curry.
1906 Everyday Housek. Apr. 848/1 The dishes, written in green ink, being as follows: Green consomme, green turtle,..green curry with chicken giblets.
1978 Chicago Tribune 24 Sept. vi. 13/2 It made an ideal foil for the fiery green curry ($2.75) we ordered. (The Thai Room offers milder curries, too.)
2009 J. Black Speak of Devil 121 Is this green curry going to eat a hole through my stomach lining?
green curry paste n. a seasoning mixture used in Thai cookery, containing green chillies and other flavourful ingredients, such as lemongrass, coriander, galangal, and garlic, ground into a smooth paste.
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1970 R. Steinberg Pacific & Southeast Asian Cooking x. 193 Add the green curry paste and the pulverized kachai, and cook briskly, stirring from time to time.
1981 Chicago Tribune 13 Apr. ii. 9/2 The green curry paste..is made a couple of days ahead to mature and ripen.
2010 Irish Times (Electronic ed.) 9 Jan. 11 Armed with a stone pestle and mortar, you begin by learning how to make Thai green curry paste.
green curtain n. Theatre a front curtain, traditionally one made of a green material.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > curtain
curtain1598
drop1781
iron curtain1794
green curtain1805
greeny1821
tableau curtain1830
drop-curtain1832
rag1848
hipping1858
cloth1881
safety curtain1881
asbestos curtain1890
olio1923
tab1929
sail curtain1941
iron1951
swag1959
1758 Case Stage Ireland 27 Perhaps, Mr. Sheridan could not procure any better. To this it was replied, that the Theatres in London are content with plain green Curtains.]
1805 Wynne Diaries 15 June (1940) III. 172 The Ballets have in general been curtailed..but this evening the Green Curtain..dropped at twenty minutes after Eleven.
1859 J. R. Planché Love & Fortune 31 Then amidst your applause may the green curtain fall.
1961 W. P. Bowman & R. H. Ball Theatre Lang. 162 Green curtain, a heavy outer curtain, traditional from the time of the Restoration, but now outmoded, serving variously as an act drop, fire curtain, etc.
2008 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Sept. 49 By the time the green curtain was raised on the $18 million production of Wicked on July 12, all the pieces were in place to make it one of the most successful musicals in Australian theatre.
green dressing n. Agriculture (now rare) (a) = green manure n.; (b) = green manuring n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 30 French-Wheat, when sowed to dress the Ground... Let it lie three Weeks or a Month. In this time it will smoak,..like a Dung-hill; and as it is a green dressing, will quickly rot in the Ground.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Pulse [He] prefers millet to every other plant for green-dressing of land, on account of the cheapness of the seed, and the largeness of the stalks and leaves, which must afford a good coat to turn in when ploughed.
1811 Agric. Museum 24 Apr. 327 Clover ploughed in, is a good green-dressing.
1893 Chem. News 3 Mar. 108/2 Green-dressing—the ploughing in of certain green crops—is recommended as a source of nitrogen and as improving the condition of the soil.
1973 S. B. Philpott West Indian Migration iii. 56 The crop land was rotated every year or two, some was fallowed or planted in green dressing, more was used for vegetables and pasture.
† Green Erin n. Obsolete Ireland.
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1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 107 I don't care a tester for that piperly poet of green Erin.
green eye n. the eye of jealousy (cf. green-eyed adj.).
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the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [noun] > jealousy
jealousnessc1380
jealoustea1382
heart-burningc1425
jealousyc1425
zealousy1542
zelotypia1566
heartburn1579
yellownessa1586
yellows1601
green-eyed monstera1616
zelotypy1623
green eyea1845
jealous-hood1846
a1845 T. Hood Lamia v, in W. Jerdan Autobiogr. (1852) I. 285 Sir Lycius now Must have the green eye set in his head.
1914 Bull. National Assoc. Credit Men Aug. 500 If you are looking with the ‘green eye’ at the men who have inherited millions, it may be well for you to remember that they are envious of you.
1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) v. 92 Evie has got over her green eye and on my birthday night James is back with us and he's brought a present for me.
green fairy n. [Compare French fée verte (1877 or earlier).] absinthe.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > liqueur > [noun] > kinds of
rosa solis1564
rose wine1603
rose of solace1604
ros solis1607
ratafia1670
brandy-cherrya1687
cherry-brandy1686
kernel-water1706
cherry cordial1710
visney1733
walnut-water1747
aniseed1749
maraschino1770
noyau1787
rosolio1796
cherry-bounce1798
absinthe1803
Parfait Amour1805
curaçao1813
ginger cordial1813
citronelle1818
pine1818
crèmea1821
alkermes1825
Goldwasser1826
citronella1834
anisette1837
goldwater1849
crème de cassis1851
Van der Hum1861
chocolate liqueur1864
kümmel1864
chartreuse1866
pimento dram1867
Trappistine1877
green muse1878
rock and rye1878
Benedictine1882
liqueur brandy1882
mandarin1882
green1889
Drambuie1893
advocaat1895
Grand Marnier1900
green fairy1902
green peril1905
cassis1907
Strega1910
quetsch1916
cointreau1920
anis1926
Izarra1926
Southern Comfort1934
amaro1945
Tia Maria1948
amaretto1969
Sabra1970
sambuca1971
Midori1978
limoncello1993
1902 J. Huneker Melomaniacs 21 ‘The absinthe—you have not forgotten it?’.. ‘Ah, no, sir; never, sir, do I forget the green fairy for the great musician, sir.’
1920 J. Huneker Bedouins i. iv. 34 The opalescent music, drugged with dreams, has the numbing effect of that ‘green fairy’ no longer permitted in la belle France.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 43 Kevin Egan rolls gunpowder cigarettes..sipping his green fairy as Patrice his white.
2007 N.Y. Mag. 13 Aug. 53/4 The..bar serves the only legal version of absinthe allowed in the country. Drip some ice water over a sugar cube, and the ‘green fairy’ looks suspiciously like a harmless glass of milk.
green fat n. now rare the green gelatinous part of a turtle, considered a delicacy; also in extended use.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > flesh of turtles or terrapins
calipee1657
green turtle1657
calipash1749
terrapin1751
turtle1755
green fat1763
pash1764
1763 D. Garrick Let. 18 July (1963) I. 379 I thank you from my soul for your literary turtle..it was all green fat.
1782 Literary Amusements II. 187 To me, who never eat of turtle, the jargon of callapash, callapee, and green fat, was unintelligible.
1830 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 101 The more highly prized Green Fat..is found..round the abdomen.
1870 U. Dubois Cosmopol. Cookery 56 To prepare the turtle-soup..add to it some pieces of the green fat.
1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 37 Consommé Fausse Tortue... Add..some pieces of the meat cut in gelatinous squares from the [calf's] head and indistinguishable from green fat.
2004 J. R. Spotila Sea Turtles vi. 97 The green turtle is probably best known for its green fat and muscles, which are delicious in soup or as a steak.
green-fingered adj. skilful or successful in making plants grow; (also) characteristic of a person who is skilled in this way.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [adjective] > successful in gardening
green-fingered1918
green-thumbed1937
1918 L. B. Wilder Color in My Garden i. 3 Under the care of our green-fingered grandmothers gardens throve and were full of hearty, wholesome colour.
1946 Nature 28 Dec. 941/2 The arts of budding and grafting can only be fully acquired by observing the green-fingered dexterity of the experienced propagator.
1966 Lancet 31 Dec. 1461/2 Trees like this..would soon be produced by hybridisation and plant-hormones under the green-fingered genius of him and his helpers.
2003 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 9 Mar. 63/1 (heading) Homemakers, handypeople, decorators, renovators, carpenters and green-fingered gardeners put a love lock on Brisbane's Home Show and Garden Expo.
green fingers n. skill or success in making plants grow, esp. in to have green fingers; also in extended use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > knowledge of herbs and plants
wort-cunning1864
green fingers1906
green thumb1937
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden [verb (intransitive)] > be successful in gardening
to have a green thumb1937
to have green fingers1943
1906 M. S. Boyd Misses Make-believe 217 What old wives call ‘green fingers’: those magic digits that appear to ensure the growth of everything they plant.
1943 S. Cloete Congo Song xvi. 150 Some men have green fingers. Plants like them. They can make things grow because they love them.
1949 Eng. Stud. i. 2 Yet we are such born meddlers, and so convinced..that we have ‘green fingers’ of the spirit to give help and guidance in these difficult years.
1969 Daily Tel. 26 Apr. 6/6 ‘Success with money is often accidental,’ she sighed. ‘One needs “green fingers” to make it grow.’
1997 Home Flair July 20/1 With her green fingers and Keith's constant encouragement, flowerbeds began to take shape.
2008 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 13 June 24 Their eyes aren't what they used to be, but these blind gardeners have still got green fingers.
green-finned adj. now historical (of an oyster) having green gills (cf. green gill n. and the note there); cf. green-gilled adj. and green oyster n. (a).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [adjective] > of or relating to oyster > of green oysters
green-finned1645
green-gilled1858
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. xi. 14 I have sent you..two barrells of Colchester oysters,..I presume they are good, and all green finnd.
1772 J. Rutty Nat. Hist. County Dublin I. 377 The third Bed..is the Malahide Oyster, which is partly green-finned, and reckoned very delicious.
1886 Amer. Mag. Jan. 94 There is a small, delicate oyster at Genoa, and a green-finned one at Venice, both of which are excellent.
1948 Dublin Hist. Rec. 10 15 But of all her harvest from the open sea, Malahide was chiefly famous for her ‘green-finned oysters’.
green fire n. an intense green light produced by pyrotechnics; (now chiefly historical) a mixture ignited to produce this, typically containing barium.
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1730 R. Bradley Course Lect. Materia Medica 87 Where we would produce a green Fire, and use Verdigrease finely powdered, this ought to be a companion with the other Parts of the Composition, such as Gun-powder finely powdered.
1822 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit. & Arts Oct. 232 We now give..the component parts of a more modern invention.., namely, a green fire.
1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xxx. 245 It is used to form ‘green fire’ in pyrotechny since barium compounds colour the flame green.
2006 Irish News (Nexis) 20 Oct. 3 Vertical lines of green fire were also launched from the ground while ‘Pigeons’ shot fireworks backwards and forwards.
green flash n. a flash of green light that is sometimes seen briefly just above the sun as it is about to disappear below the horizon at sunset, or as it first appears at sunrise; = green ray n. (b).
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > green flash
green ray1705
green flash1887
1887 Nature 24 Feb. 391/1 As soon as the last speck of the yellow vanished, a momentary bright green flash shone out.
1925 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn 125 For the first time I saw the ‘Green Flash’, as it is called. Just as the sun is about to sink below the horizon a flash of vivid green seems to leap from it. It only lasts a second and is gone.
1951 Caribbean Q. 2 ii. 40 In the West Indies..we have the finest opportunities for observing the phenomenon of the Green Flash.
2007 K. H. Hemmings Descendants i. x. 69 It's a communal activity around here, waiting for this green flash, hoping to catch it.
green-flesh adj. (esp. of a fruit or vegetable) having green flesh.
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1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 581 Kitchen-Garden Esculent Plants and Herbs... Melon, Water. Cucurbita Citrullus. 1. Long Red-flesh. 2. Long Yellow-flesh. 3. Large Round Red-flesh. 4. Green-flesh do.
1855 R. Browning De Gustibus ii, in Men & Women II. 149 A girl bare-footed brings and tumbles Down on the pavement, green-flesh melons.
1995 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 9 Mar. 6 My father must have loved sweet potatoes as well as anyone who ever lived—particularly Haymans—the green-flesh variety my aunt and uncle would bring over from the Eastern Shore in the fall.
green fluorescent protein n. Biochemistry a protein that exhibits green fluorescence when exposed to blue light, spec. that originally isolated from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, often used as an experimental tracer or marker, esp. in molecular biology and genetic engineering; abbreviated GFP.
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1962 Jrnl. Cellular & Compar. Physiol. 59 236/2 It is reasonable to suppose that the greenish quality results from a light filtering effect and fluorescence of the green protein.]
1969 Biol. Bull. 137 402 This is attributed to energy transfer from the luminescent system to a green fluorescent protein associated with the photogenic granules.
1994 Nature 2 June 400/2 Here we express a chimaeric gene encoding a fusion between the Aequorea victoria [printed Acquorea victoria] green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the exu protein (Exu) in female germ cells [of Drosophila].
2006 M. Crichton Next xxxi. 165 The fertilized egg of an albino rabbit was injected with..the gene for green fluorescent protein from a Pacific Northwest jellyfish.
green fog n. Photography (now disused) an iridescent green stain on a developed plate; cf. fog n.2 4.
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1880 Jrnl. & Trans. Photogr. Soc. 20 Dec. 41 Mr. R. Manners Gordon says that with iodine he always gets green fog if he uses as much as 1 grain per ounce of emulsion.
1889 E. J. Wall Dict. Photogr. 77 The obvious remedy for this evil, with a brand of plate known to be liable to green fog, is the use of potash and soda or ferrous oxalate.
1912 Wilson's Photogr. Mag. 49 103/1 If the green fog is only slight it does not affect the prints made from the negative.
green food n. grass or green vegetables used for food or fodder.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > cut green fodder
bit?1523
green food1658
greenfeed1754
verdage1775
soil1868
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > other leaves
nettle top?1585
lettuce1597
green food1658
peppergrass1696
Welsh onion1731
lamb's quarter1773
Shawnee salad1780
puha1843
poke greens1848
rauriki1848
swede greens1887
swede tops1887
lettuce green1900
leafy greena1918
rapini1959
1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick xiv. vii. 320 Milk must not be eaten, when Goats and Sheep feed on green food, because it will loosen the belly the more.
1799 G. Washington Writings (1893) XIV. 225 For spring, summer, and autumn, it is expected, that soiling of them on green food..will enable them to perform their work.
1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 234 To keep an elephant in health, his green food should be constantly changed.
1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 232/1 The almost cosmopolitan P[ortulaca] oleracea (..purslane or pigweed) is used as a green food by Indonesian and Polynesian peoples.
green gate [ < green adj. + gate n.2] rare (now Scottish) = greenway n.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > covered with verdure
greenwayOE
green gatec1540
greensward way1703
trace1871
tapis vert1960
c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 13 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 77 The gren gat I had more delit to folow Then of deuotion to seke the halowe.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Green-gate, a grassy path.
green gill n. U.S. a condition of oysters whose gills have acquired a green tinge; cf. green v.1 2b.In Europe such oysters were formerly regarded as a delicacy.
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1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 185 In 1880 what the oystermen call the ‘green-gill’ began to affect the planted oysters in Back river.
1916 Science 8 Sept. 347/2 Mr. R. L. Barney..is aiding the director in the study of diatoms of green gill oysters and the life history of sporozoan parasites.
2006 Daily News (Jacksonville, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 12 Feb. It has productive oyster beds that usually do not get green gill.
green-gilled adj. (a) having green gills; (of an oyster) = green-finned adj.; (b) = green around (also about, at, in) the gills at Phrases 6.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [adjective] > of or relating to oyster > of green oysters
green-finned1645
green-gilled1858
1858 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 75 294 (heading) Notice of the occurrence of green-gilled oysters.
1905 Leslie's Monthly Mag. May 70/2 Which leaves me and the green-gilled tenderfoot.
1918 C. H. Kauffman Agaricaceae of Michigan I. 17 Avoid the green-gilled Lepiota.
1920 Ann. Rep. 1919 (Conservation Comm. N.Y.) 55 Algae grows only where the waters are pure.., and in some European sections green gilled oysters are preferred to any other kind.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Jan. 29/2 The dreaded evening of the Smithsonian speech finally arrived. I stood knock-kneed and green-gilled before 300 people.
2003 W. C. Roody Mushrooms West Virginia & Central Appalachians i. 73 The Parasol Mushroom looks like a kettledrum stick. At this stage it can be confused with the poisonous Green-gilled Lepiota.
green ginger n. undried ginger root, often preserved.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > ginger plants > ginger root
gingereOE
green ginger1393
ginger root1597
ginger racea1658
hand1850
1393 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 67 (MED) Grengynger.
1448 in P. E. Jones Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1954) V. 108 (MED) A Rynyssh fat with a Covercle like the hede of the seid fatte, both of sylver & overgilt, ordeyned to put ynne grene gynger.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. O2v Greene Ginger, condite with hony, warmes olde mens bellyes.
1664 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1916) I. 454 1 Barrell Green ginger, cost 5li.
1753 R. Colborne Plain Eng. Dispensatory 276/1 Take Conserve of Rosemary-flowers, an Ounce; green Ginger, Powder of Millipedes (live ones are best) of each half an Ounce, [etc.].
1852 F. Bishop Illustr. London Cookery Bk. xix. 338 Take some green ginger, and with a sharp knife pare it neatly, and as it is pared throw into a pan of cold water to keep it white.
1985 R. Fernandez Malaysian Cookery 39 To use green ginger, scrape off the scaly skin then mince, crush or pulverize to a paste.
green gland n. Zoology (in crustaceans) each of a pair of excretory organs having a greenish bladder, opening via a duct and pore at the coxae of the antennae or of a pair of legs (also called antennal gland and coxal gland respectively).
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1854 W. I. Burnett tr. C. T. E. von Siebold in tr. C. T. E. von Siebold & H. Stannius Compar. Anat. I. xii. 324/2 Neuwyler has given the green glands of the craw-fish a special examination.
1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea iv. 38 The first, or basal joint of the peduncle..very often carries a tubercle in connection with the ‘green gland’, of which the function is supposed to be renal.
1952 J. A. Ramsay Physiol. Approach Lower Animals iv. 58 In the shore crab Carcinus the excretory organ is the antennary gland, or green gland, and consists of three parts.
2004 Internat. Congr. Ser. 1275 102 The nephridial canal is positioned at the periphery of the green gland.
green glass n. glass of a green colour, often used for bottles; in early use spec. a coarse type of glass distinguished from that of finer quality; frequently attributive.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > other types of glass
mirror glass1440
Venice glass1527
green glass1559
bubble glass1591
hard glass1597
window glass1606
bottle glass1626
looking-glass plate1665
opal glass1668
flint-glass1683
broad-glass1686
jealous glass1703
plate glass1728
Newcastle glass1734
flint1755
German sheet glass1777
Réaumur's porcelain1777
cut glass1800
Vauxhall1830
muslin glass1837
Venetian glass1845
latticinio1855
quartz glass1861
muff glass1865
thallium glass1868
St. Gobain glass1870
frost blue1873
crackle-glass1875
opaline1875
crackle-ware1881
amberina1883
opal1885
Jena1892
Holophane1893
roughcast1893
soda glass1897
opalite1899
milchglas1907
pâte de verre1907
Pyrex1915
silica glass1916
soda-lime glass1917
Vita-glass1925
peach-blow1930
borosilicate glass1933
Vitrolite1937
twin plate1939
sintered glass1940
gold-film1954
Plyglass1956
pyroceram1957
float glass1959
solar glass1977
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 69 The common grene glasse will gather a certain duskishnes and as it were a skin.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxvi. 277 The courser sort of Glass (which the Trades-men are wont to call Green-glass).
1784 G. Adams Ess. Electr. 118 It is very difficult to break by an explosion the jars which are made of green glass, fabricated at Newcastle.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxvii. 123 A pint green-glass bottle.
1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter ii. 33 A green-glass slave bangle.
2001 D. K. Barlow in R. K. Dhir et al. Recycling & Reuse of Glass Cullet i. 13 The maximum amount of recycled green glass that can be used in the production of new green bottles is about 90%.
green gold n. (a) an alloy of gold with approx. 10 per cent silver; (b) a plant or plant product having a high market value; cf. black gold n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a).In quot. 1697 perhaps: an impure form of gold.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > alloy of precious metals > alloy of gold and silver
electrec1384
electruma1398
pewtera1425
amber1572
green gold1697
electron1856
1697 C. K. Art's Master-piece 53 Green Gold, a corrupt Mettal so called, is very good in this Work, for casting a fading Green colour.
c1791 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 6/2 The alloy of gold with silver forms the green gold of the jewellers and gold-beaters.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 724 To heighten the colour of Green Gold.
1911 Washington Post 18 June (Misc. section) 2/5 He has heard the henequen referred to as the ‘green gold of the peninsula’.
1993 Treasure Hunting Mar. 21/1 Green Gold..is used for making jewellery and small trinkets.
2002 J. Madeley Food for All x. 105 For farmers this was the opportunity they sought. Coffee was seen as the ‘green gold’.
green goods n. (a) fruit and vegetables; goods sold by a greengrocer (now rare); (b) U.S. slang counterfeit greenbacks (greenback n. 3); frequently attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > [noun]
fruitc1175
garden produce1726
green goods1856
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > counterfeit note(s)
screen1789
scrieve1800
shoful1828
green goods1856
stiff one1895
funny money1901
slush1924
1856 Graham's Mag. May 400/1 The shops where green goods are for sale, where grapes, melons and figs are spread out, rejoice the eye with their cool verdure.
1887 G. W. Walling Recoll. N.Y. Chief of Police x. 126 He informs his prospective victim that he has a large quantity of ‘green goods’ (counterfeit money) of different denominations.
1891 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody iii. xix. 223 The janitor..states that in his opinion, Stillman, Myth and Co. were in the ‘green-goods’ business.
1920 E. W. Bok Autobiogr. (1921) 99 A market dealer in green goods.
1991 L. Sante Low Life ii. iv. 171 The green goods swindle, also known as the sawdust game, arrived on the scene in 1869.
green-goods man n. a dealer in green goods (green goods n. (b)).
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1886 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 10 Nov. 8/5 (heading) Victimized by ‘Green Goods’ Men.
1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 31 Jan. The New York flim-flammers and green goods men..are still out of the clutches of the United Secret Service.
1913 Amer. Anthropologist 15 347 Quite recently the ‘green-goods man’ has become less conspicuous than the forger or the embezzler.
2004 T. Spargo Wanted Man xiv. 145 George Armstrong, a wealthy ‘green-goods’ man or confidence trickster.
green hand n. a new or untrained recruit, esp. on board a ship; cf. hand n. 14 and green man n. 2.
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1747 G. G. Beekman Let. 17 Mar. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 16 The barrer Captain Israel Boarman is a green hand, if you can help him to some freight back pray doe.
1790 T. Coxe Notes on Amer. Fisheries in T. Jefferson Papers (1974) XIX. 186 They confine the advances to Seamen in this Trade [sc. the Newfoundland fishery]..to one half of what is due 'till their final discharge..except in the case of green hands whose outfit may actually require more.
1864 C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux I. 91 Being a stranger in the place and a green hand, I found it very difficult to get a berth.
2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) ii. 78 Coiling was a job for the apprentices and green hands when a few lines were involved.
greenhide n. in later use chiefly Australian the raw or untanned hide of an animal; frequently as a mass noun and attributive; cf. sense A. 6b.
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OEGrenre hyde [see sense A. 6b].
1572 W. Malim tr. N. Martinengo True Rep. Famagosta 9 And they came with certaine boordes couered with raw and greene hydes, vnder which they brought their men to digge in the vaymures.
1677 Recs. Gen. Court 18 Oct. in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony Connecticut (1852) II. 325 Noe tanner shall haue any more for taning any hide than two pence upon the pownd for green hides and fower pence..for dry hides.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Green Hide, is that not yet curried, but such as taken off from the Carcase.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxx. 111 Wheel-ropes made of green hide, laid up in the form of ropes.
1850 J. G. Bruff Jrnl. 27 Aug. in Gold Rush (1944) II. iv. 830 They also found, where the indians had been, a knife, and a green hide halter.
1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland (1882) viii. 72 A strongly plaited greenhide-halter was now slipped over the head.
a1921 G. H. Gibson in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 206 He could..Chop his name with a green-hide fall on the flank of a flyin' steer.
1963 W. E. Harney To Ayers Rock & Beyond v. 45 The drafting-yards was superseded by the ‘tailing-yard’ with bronco-panels and twisted greenhide ropes with a leather ‘hoonda’ for the ring.
2000 Land (N. Richmond, New S. Wales) 1 June (Trader section) 16/5 (advt.) Stock lines include; harness, bridle and embossing leather..kangaroo leather and lace. Red hide and Greenhide.
Green Island n. (with the) Ireland.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun]
Western Isle1557
shamrockshire1689
Teagueland1689
Wolfland1692
Green Island1797
Green Isle1812
the (old) sod1812
Paddyland1828
(is)land of saints1888
1797 W. Drennan Erin in Morning Post 29 Sept. 3/3 When Erin first rose from the dark swelling flood, God bless'd the Green Island, and saw it was good.
1854 Times 26 July 10/4 The greenest thing ever done by the House of Commons has been done upon the motion of Mr. Greene, a native of the Green Island, who has obtained a green committee for the greenest of all possible inquiries.
1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 253/1 Even then a taste for claret was a gentlemanly weakness among the priests and people of the green island.
1995 Y. Midzunoe in T. Westendorp & J. Mallinson Politics & Rhetoric Poetry vi. 62 His Irish heritage, which included the whole of the green island.
Green Isle n. (with the) = Green Island n.; cf. Emerald Isle n. at emerald n. Compounds 4.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun]
Western Isle1557
shamrockshire1689
Teagueland1689
Wolfland1692
Green Island1797
Green Isle1812
the (old) sod1812
Paddyland1828
(is)land of saints1888
1812 W. Wheeler Let. 18 Aug. (1951) 92 The servant entered and announced Father Kelly... He was from the ‘Green Isle’.
1871 C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. 73 That lively specimen from the green isle, who seems to flourish with rank luxuriance in the neighbourhood of gold.
1921 H. Van Dyke Camp-fires & Guide-posts ii. 34 The trouble is that it has two insularities, one to the north, and one to the south. When they are harmonized to desire the same thing it will be a fine day for the Green Isle.
2004 Irish Dancing Internat. July 3/2 It's packed with a huge Guide To Ireland—region by region, including all the places not to be missed, if/when you're visiting the green isle.
Green Jacket n. (a) a member of any of various former or current regiments and other divisions of the British Army who originally wore dark green uniforms, esp. the King's Royal Rifle Corps or the Rifle Brigade; chiefly in plural; also occasionally attributive; (b) Golf (with lower-case initials) a green sports coat awarded to the winner of the U.S. Masters Tournament.A green jacket has been awarded to each winner of the Masters since 1949; such jackets have been worn by members of the Augusta National Golf Club, where the tournament is held, since 1937.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British
Ulsters1649
Scots Guardsa1675
fusilier1680
guards1682
Scots Dragoons1689
Scots Fusiliers1689
Inniskilling1715
Scots Greys1728
blue1737
Black Watch1739
Oxford blues1766
green linnets1793
Grenadiers1800
slashers1802
the Buffs1806
tartan1817
Gay Gordons1823
cheesemongers1824
Green Jacket1824
The Bays1837
RHA1837
dirty half-hundred1841
die-hard1844
lifeguard1849
cherry-picker1865
lancer-regiment1868
cheeses1877
Territorial Regiment1877
the Sweeps1879
dirty shirts1887
Scottish Rifles1888
shiner1891
Yorkshire1898
imperials1899
Irish guards1902
Hampshires1904
BEF1914
Old Contemptibles1915
contemptibles1917
Tank Corps1917
the Tins1918
skins1928
pioneer corps1939
red devils1943
Blues and Royals1968
U.D.R.1969
1824 in Sir. H. Smith Autobiogr. (1901) I. 3 ‘Well, I will make you a Rifleman, a green jacket,’ says the General.
1927 Observer 1 May 19 The Duke [of Connaught] loves the Green Jackets best of all in spite of his other military associations.
1951 Chicago Sunday Tribune 1 Apr. ii. 5/5 Only Horton Smith and Byron Nelson have had the honor of twice wearing the green jacket donned by each year's winner.
1972 Country Life 2 Mar. 511/2 The whereabouts of the service and campaign medals presented to this ‘Greenjacket family’ are eagerly sought.
1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xix. 228 Some regiments even seem to produce a physical stereotype—willowy cavalry officers with flopping hair, slim Green Jackets with saturnine good looks.
2002 J. Nicklaus & J. Tickell Golf & Life (2003) iii. 17 It was the sixth time I had won the green jacket.
green jaundice n. Medicine a disorder accompanied by greenish discoloration of the skin (cf. green sickness n. 1); spec. a form of jaundice in which there is accumulation of the green bile pigment biliverdin, usually as a result of biliary obstruction.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice
jaundice1303
yellow evila1387
aurigo1398
gulesought14..
yellow soughtc1400
green jaundice1547
yellow sickness1568
icterism1660
yellow plague1668
icterus1706
orange skin1822
cholaemia1866
leptospiral jaundice1924
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. liii. 406 Þere beþ þre maner of iaundes..ȝolouh þat comeþ of kynde colera, grene, and blacke... And secund hatte somtyme peganicis, þat is to menynge ‘grene’, for þe body is imade grene wiþ grene colera.]
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. clxxviii. sig. Tiii The grene Jawnes doth come of yelow coler myxt with putrified fleume, a corrupcion of blode.
1652 Edwards' Treat. conc. Plague 145 (heading) in A. M. Rich Closet For the green Sicknesse, or green Iaundies.
1721 J. Handley Mech. Ess. Animal Oecon. 130 So is the Colour in the Skin, producing what we call a yellow, black, and sometimes the green Jaundice.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 391 In green jaundice the patient rarely recovers.
1987 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Dermatol. 16 174/2 Green jaundice is an uncommon complication of hyperbilirubinemia and has various causes in adults.
† green jerkin n. Obsolete (historical in later use) a person who wears a green jerkin, esp. a forester.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > forester
woodyera1100
forester1297
fosterc1405
fostress?1553
sylvan1589
saltuary1674
woodsman1694
green jerkin1826
wood-farmer1831
sylviculturist1887
tree farmer1942
sylviculturalist1971
1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. v. 139 By the force of his buffcoats and his greenjerkins.
1848 Gift of Friendship (1854) 212 The harmless revelry of the green-jerkins of Windsor-forest shall never be disturbed by brawls and bloodshed.
1901 J. Stoughton Hist. Relig. in Eng. (ed. 2) I. v. 237 Hampden saw with pride his green jerkins winding through the vales of Buckinghamshire.
green jersey n. Cycling (in a race involving stages) a green racing jersey used to signify the current leader or overall winner of a secondary competition (typically a points competition for sprinting); (also) the wearer or winner of the jersey; cf. yellow jersey n. at yellow adj. and n. Compounds 2a. [After French maillot vert (mid 20th cent. or earlier); compare maillot jaune n.]
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1961 Observer 2 July 16/5 Anquetil wore the yellow jersey for leading on time. Darrigade the green jersey for best points placings.
1993 Cycling Weekly 23 Jan. 22/1 We had about 20 miles to go. And a break of 10 got away, including the second and third-placed girl and the green jersey.
2004 J. Wilcockson 23 Days in July (2005) i. 23 He gets..the yellow jersey for leading the race, green jersey for leading on points, and white jersey for best young rider.
green lane n. a grassy lane; an unsurfaced rural road or track; cf. green road n.Recorded earliest in a surname.
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1297 in L. M. Midgley Ministers' Accts. Earldom of Cornwall (1942) I. 92 (MED) Iohanne ate Grenelane.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 163 We have, as you see, a fine pleasant green Lane, that comes down from our Countrey the next way into it. View more context for this quotation
1796 C. Tomkins Tour Isle of Wight II. 56 There are now only a few scattered houses in the green lanes, which once were streets.
1877 L. J. Jennings Field Paths & Green Lanes (1878) Pref. p. vii I have invariably followed a green lane or a field path, wherever one could be found.
1995 Guardian 24 Mar. i. 5/7 We hope to set a legal precedent to protect hundreds of miles of green lanes that are at risk of being churned up by off-road vehicles.
† green-leafy adj. poetic Obsolete rare abundant in green foliage; verdant.
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a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 357 Each green-leafy bosk and hollow.
† green-leave adj. Obsolete rare having green leaves.
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1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick 39 Where shady trees Embrac'd each other in their green-leave arms.
Green Line n. a service of express coaches serving London and surrounding counties (a proprietary name in the United Kingdom); chiefly attributive, as Green Line coach, etc.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > specific motor coach service
Green Line1932
1932 Times 6 Feb. 14/3 Arrangements have been made for the acquisition of the Skylark Motor Coach Company..and the London to Ongar service of Associated Coaches... Licences held by the above companies to be regranted to Green Line Coaches.
1935 A. E. W. Mason They wouldn't be Chessmen v. 67 He..was almost run over by a Green Line charabanc.
1961 J. Stroud Touch & Go ii. 21 ‘How do we get there?’ ‘Train, I suppose. Or Green Line.’
1994 P. Hobbs & M. Algar Free to Trav. xv. 90 The Green Line Days Out brochure..describes inexpensive day-return outings by coach to places like Stratford-Upon-Avon, Hampton Court Palace, Oxford, Cambridge.
greenlining n. U.S. efforts aimed at increasing investment in neighbourhoods which have been red-lined or are otherwise disadvantaged (cf. red-line v. 1c); spec. (esp. in early use) the boycotting of banks thought to engage in red-lining; frequently attributive.
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1974 Chicago Defender 21 Mar. 14/2 This ‘green-lining’ program is aimed at turning around the red-lining which is said to be starving older communities of mortgage money.
1980 J. McClaughry in P. Duignan & A. Rabushka U.S. in 1980s i. 383 The real answer to the bank that siphons its depositors' funds out of their declining neighborhood is greenlining.
1992 Business Jrnl. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 12 Sept. He said Shorebank would revitalize Milwaukee's faltering neighborhoods through a process of long-term reinvestment and job creation called ‘greenlining’.
2003 P. Dreier in G. D. Squires Organizing Access to Capital xii. 193 Efforts involved consumer boycotts—‘greenlining campaigns’—of neighborhood banks that refused to reinvest local depositors' money in their own backyards.
green lung n. a park, public garden, or other area providing open space and greenery for the inhabitants of a city; cf. lung n. 1b.
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1885 H. A. Smith Great Cities of Mod. World 84 Through the city are the pretty green ‘lungs’, as they have been called in London.
1946 Manch. Guardian 20 Apr. 3/4 In the south of the city the parks were not to be resisted... The green lungs of black Manchester worked overtime.
2008 N.Y. Times 23 Mar. (Travel section) 10 The city's piece de resistance, also its green lung, is Lodhi Gardens, a free, quiet sanctuary for parakeets and lovers.
green manure n. a crop which is ploughed or dug into the ground while still growing in order to replenish nutrients and improve soil structure.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1785 Ann. Agric. 4 213 The wheat is sown, and lightly harrowed, on purpose to cover it in sufficiently without unburying the green manure.
1842 J. F. W. Johnston Agric. Chem. 141 Among green manures the use of fresh sea-ware deserves especial mention.
1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 123 The pigeon, or Congo pea (Cajanus indicus ) makes an excellent shade for the young trees and is also a good green manure.
2003 Org. Gardening Sept. 9/1 As ground is cleared you may want to sow a green manure rather than leave bare earth through the winter.
green manuring n. the practice of using green manures to improve soil.
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1821 tr. A. P. de Candolle & K. Sprengel Elements Philos. Plants iv. ii. 225 The green manuring..proves the same fact; but the slow fermentation of green vegetables should only be employed in fertile and warm soils.
1842 J. F. W. Johnston Agric. Chem. 139 The practice of green manuring has been in use from very early periods.
1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) vi. 84 White lupin..is used only for green manuring.
2002 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 29 June (Life section) 10/1 (headline) Green manuring makes a comeback from grandpa's day.
green meat n. now regional and rare food or fodder consisting of green herbs, plants, or vegetables; also in plural.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > green vegetables
green meatc1450
wintergreensa1691
greens1710
green ware1736
green stuff1778
grass1867
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun]
worteOE
herbc1290
pottage-warea1398
pot-wortc1400
green meatc1450
pot-herb1538
pot green1742
the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [adjective] > fodder
green meat1566
baitable1890
c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 229 (MED) Let hym ete no frute nyr no grene-mete nyr no whyȝt mete.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 124 Beware of saladis, grene metis, & of frutes rawe.
1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) iii. lxxxix. f. 62, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Horses be often grieued with griefe in the splen, and specially in Sommer season wyth gredy eatyng of sweete greene meates.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 75 From April vnto Iune giue them grasse, and such greene meat as may be found abroad.
1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (E.D.S.) (at cited word) To soil horses, is to scour or purge 'em, by giving 'em green meat, as tares, green clover, and the like.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Green-meat There idn nothin in the wordle do do osses so much good this time o' the year 's a bit o' green-mate.
1927 W. de la Mare Told Again 162 As for ‘tops’ [sc. turnip tops], there were enough of them..to keep a widow and nine children in green-meat for a hundred years.
Green Mountain State n. U.S. the State of Vermont.
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1828 Torch Light (Hagers-town, Maryland) 25 Sept. 1/5 The case of the administration has been completely triumphant throughout the Green Mountain State.
1948 Vermont Q. July 74 It is of much historic interest to the Green Mountain State.
2000 Book Sept. 6/1 Paula Routly..is co-publisher and editor of Seven Days, the alternative weekly in Burlington, Vermont. She came to the Green Mountain State in 1978.
green muse n. [Compare French muse verte (1865 or earlier).] now rare absinthe.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > liqueur > [noun] > kinds of
rosa solis1564
rose wine1603
rose of solace1604
ros solis1607
ratafia1670
brandy-cherrya1687
cherry-brandy1686
kernel-water1706
cherry cordial1710
visney1733
walnut-water1747
aniseed1749
maraschino1770
noyau1787
rosolio1796
cherry-bounce1798
absinthe1803
Parfait Amour1805
curaçao1813
ginger cordial1813
citronelle1818
pine1818
crèmea1821
alkermes1825
Goldwasser1826
citronella1834
anisette1837
goldwater1849
crème de cassis1851
Van der Hum1861
chocolate liqueur1864
kümmel1864
chartreuse1866
pimento dram1867
Trappistine1877
green muse1878
rock and rye1878
Benedictine1882
liqueur brandy1882
mandarin1882
green1889
Drambuie1893
advocaat1895
Grand Marnier1900
green fairy1902
green peril1905
cassis1907
Strega1910
quetsch1916
cointreau1920
anis1926
Izarra1926
Southern Comfort1934
amaro1945
Tia Maria1948
amaretto1969
Sabra1970
sambuca1971
Midori1978
limoncello1993
1878 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 672/1 In any one of the cafés on the Boulevard, dozens of persons may be seen sipping the ‘green muse’ as poor French writers, slaves to the drug which gives a momentary spur to their fagged and jaded minds, have poetically termed it.
1997 Icon Thoughtstyle Mag. Apr. 42/1 Also called the green muse by its admirers, within a short time absinthe was known as ‘bottled madness.’
green oil n. any of various green-coloured oils, esp. (a) oil pressed from unripe olives; (b) U.S. regional = petroleum n. (now rare); (c) = anthracene oil n. at anthracene n. Compounds 3 (now chiefly historical).
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [noun] > polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons
green oil1607
paranaphthalene1838
anthracene1840
oxanthracene1862
chrysene1864
cerulein1866
acenaphthene1868
naphthoquinone1870
anthracene oil1873
azulene1874
acenaphthylene1875
ionene1894
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > oil > petroleum
petroleum1526
oil of petre1528
petrol1540
green oil1607
oil of saltpetre1685
mineral oil1771
coal oil1883
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 250 Two ounces of this Goates-greace and a pinte of greene Oyle mixed together.
1747 R. James Pharmacopœia Universalis 749 Take of the green Oil, three Pounds; of yellow Wax, ten Ounces.
1814 S. Weston Persian Distichs various Authors 91 Ottar ogul, odour of roses was the green oil of the Psalmist, which we translate fresh oil; but the true ottar..has a greenish cast.
1867 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 93 346 I was..informed that no ‘green oil’ (petroleum) springs existed upon that estate.
1873 Chem. News 7 Mar. 115/1 Sometimes there is obtained a further distillate known as green oil, green grease, or heavy pitch oil, the residue in the boiler being pitch.
1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xvi. 390 Green or anthracene oil is also used for preserving wood, and as fuel.
1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food vii. 215 The Romans in their day liked ‘green oil’, pressed from olives still hard and bitter.
2003 Competition Sci. Vision‎ May 347/2 Anthracene oil (green oil).
green olive n. an unripe olive, harvested before its colour darkens (when it becomes a naturally ripened black olive).
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1562 W. Bullein Bulwarke of Defence f. 31 He..sayth in Asia, beyonde the Countrye of the blacke Trions, the Wheate graines bee as bigge as grene oliues, which bee as big as Nutmegges.
1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa ii. i. 197 Green Olives are not in a condition to afford much Oyl.
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. xvi. 264 The very finest, called virgin oil, is made chiefly of green olives, and sold at a very high price.
1889 P. L. Simmonds Trop. Agric. (ed. 3) §v. 394 The green olives are put into a solution of salt; they are kept there for some time, to cause them to lose their natural bitter taste.
1954 Life 19 Apr. 79/2 Curried lamb circled from left by guava jelly,..chopped green olives, chopped bacon.
2005 N.Y. Mag. 18 July 54/1 Green olives are chewy, often stuffed with almonds, garlic, or feta cheese.
green oyster n. (a) a green-finned oyster, formerly regarded as a delicacy (now historical); †(b) Australian = oyster-green n. at oyster n. and adj. Compounds 3 (obsolete rare).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > oyster
oystereOE
Colchesterc1625
green oyster1667
mangrove oyster1683
pandore1701
Milton1749
sickle-oyster1758
bluepoint1789
native1815
powldoody1819
Red Bank oyster1830
raccoon oyster1834
sauce oyster1851
Portuguese oyster1881
relay1889
Portugal oyster1890
Malpeque1901
Marennes1905
Belon1908
Olympia oyster1908
Pacific oyster1912
Whitstable1940
Portugaise1942
Olympia1961
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > green
green oyster1667
1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 307 (heading) The history of the generation and ordering of green-oysters, commonly called Colchester-oysters.
1726 tr. B. L. de Muralt Lett. Describing Char. & Customs Eng. & French Nations 39 Delicious green Oysters, and Roast-Beef.
1858 T. C. Eyton Hist. Oyster 27 The ‘green Oyster’ formerly in such high repute, is now gone out of fashion.
1890 F. M. Bailey Catal. Indigenous & Naturalized Plants Queensland 99/2 Green Oyster. Ulva Lactuca.
1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food xii. 389 The vertes or green oysters of Marennes were also known, and..were already being refined in the special basins called claires.
Green Paper n. (in the United Kingdom and similar jurisdictions) a preliminary report, formerly printed on pale green paper, which sets out government proposals in order to stimulate discussion.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > policy document
white paper1884
policy document1935
Green Paper1967
1967 K. Robinson in Hansard Commons 6 Nov. 644 I wish to make a statement concerning the administrative structure of the medical and related services for which I am responsible. I shall..set out my views, probably in the form of a Green Paper, as a basis for public discussion and wide consultation.
1985 Daily Tel. 4 June 6/6 Supplementary benefit, criticised by the Green Paper as too difficult for claimants to understand and too complex for staff to run.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) xi. 245 A Green Paper to look at the fundamental causes of crime has been scotched by the Treasury.
green peril n. now rare absinthe.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > liqueur > [noun] > kinds of
rosa solis1564
rose wine1603
rose of solace1604
ros solis1607
ratafia1670
brandy-cherrya1687
cherry-brandy1686
kernel-water1706
cherry cordial1710
visney1733
walnut-water1747
aniseed1749
maraschino1770
noyau1787
rosolio1796
cherry-bounce1798
absinthe1803
Parfait Amour1805
curaçao1813
ginger cordial1813
citronelle1818
pine1818
crèmea1821
alkermes1825
Goldwasser1826
citronella1834
anisette1837
goldwater1849
crème de cassis1851
Van der Hum1861
chocolate liqueur1864
kümmel1864
chartreuse1866
pimento dram1867
Trappistine1877
green muse1878
rock and rye1878
Benedictine1882
liqueur brandy1882
mandarin1882
green1889
Drambuie1893
advocaat1895
Grand Marnier1900
green fairy1902
green peril1905
cassis1907
Strega1910
quetsch1916
cointreau1920
anis1926
Izarra1926
Southern Comfort1934
amaro1945
Tia Maria1948
amaretto1969
Sabra1970
sambuca1971
Midori1978
limoncello1993
1905 Westm. Gaz. 4 May 12/1 Some statistics..of the growth of the absinthe habit in France seem to justify the alarmists who speak of the beverage as ‘the green peril’.
1908 Daily Chron. 21 May 1/5 This taxing of the ‘green peril’ will no doubt be popular.
2000 Food Arts Jan.–Feb. 19/2 The bitter-tasting apéritif was also dubbed the ‘green peril’, considered a debilitating narcotic, hallucinogen, [etc.].
green plot n. = grass plot n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > lawn or grass-plot
grassOE
arbourc1380
harbour1505
green plot1566
grass plot1599
grass work1664
platband1725
lawn1733
garden lawn1771
short-grass1826
pelouse1853
1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) xcviii. f. 72v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe When you would haue him to stale, lette it be eyther vpon plentye of strawe, or vpon some grene plotte, or else in a sheps coate, the sauor whereof will greatly prouoke hym to stale.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. ii. 2 Wee must dresse some well defensed piece of ground or greenplot for fruits.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 28 A large double Walk, and a Green-Plot in the Middle.
1828 H. D. Best Italy 410 It is approached by a neglected, unplanted, unfenced green-plot.
1999 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 21 May 5 Thieves may have scuppered the chances of an award-winning green plot retaining its title as Derby's best school garden.
green pound n. the exchange rate for the pound (occasionally also that for the Irish punt) formerly applied to payments for agricultural produce made under the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union and its predecessors.The green pound and similar ‘green’ currencies were abolished on the introduction of European Monetary Union in 1999.
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society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > money of account > for agriculture in Britain and Ireland
green pound1974
society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > money of account > connected to certain economic groups
green pound1974
pink pound1984
1974 Times 2 Sept. 1/4 The Irish, as food exporters, have been urging a reduction in the green pound because it would raise prices paid to their farmers and cut taxes at present levied on such exports as beef.
1974 Financial Times 14 Sept. 12/3 Britain and Ireland have what is labelled a Green Pound because sterling is floating in relation to the currencies of other EEC members.
1997 Farmers Guardian 19 Sept. 13/8 Successive revaluations of the green pound have now knocked over 4p per litre off milk prices.
green ray n. [in sense (b) apparently translating French rayon vert, in J. Verne Le rayon-vert (1882)] (a) a ray of light that gives a sensation of green when perceived; usually in plural; (b) = green flash n.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > green flash
green ray1705
green flash1887
1705 C. Purshall Ess. Mechanism Macrocosm 221 That Glass has power only to separate the Green Rays of Light.
1864 Chem. News 30 Jan. 54/1 Chloride of sodium especially has the property of obscuring the green ray.
1883 Derby Mercury 10 Oct. 6/2 The maid says she has no objection to marriage, but she cannot think of it till she has seen ‘the green ray’—i.e., the last ray of the setting sun.
1902 A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. (ed. 4) xii. 402 All of these gave the green ray fundamental to the nebular spectrum.
1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 257 When these color rays pass through the lipophores, just under the epidermis, the blue and violet rays are absorbed and only the green rays escape.
2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex iv. 448 ‘You ever see a green ray?.. They say you can't take a picture of a green ray, but I got one.’
green revolution n. (a) a great increase in the production of cereal crops in a developing country following the introduction of high-yield varieties and the application of scientific methods to agriculture; (b) a dramatic increase in support for or adoption of environmentalist principles or practices.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farming sciences
agriculture1565
georgics1594
geoponics1608
rural science?1750
agricultural science1775
agronomy1796
agronomics1825
agrometeorology1925
agrobiology1930
agroecology1930
agrotechnology1932
agrology1946
agro-ecosystem1949
agriscience1958
green revolution1968
cereology1990
agromechanization2006
the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming
high culture1771
scientific farming1789
metaying1792
high farming1815
petite culture1848
sharefarming1857
urban agriculture1860
bush-farming1866
mixed farming1872
dry farming1878
co-aration1883
co-ploughing1883
smallholding1889
power-farming1913
dry-land farming1914
third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940
link system1950
green revolution1968
1968 W. S. Gaud 8 Mar. in Proc. 10th World Conf. Soc. Internat. Devel. (1969) 236 These and other developments in the field of agriculture contain the makings of a new revolution... I call it the Green Revolution.
1980 Times 2 Sept. 3/7 The party [sc. the Ecology Party] claims to offer a radical alternative outside the terms of reference of the main parties, ‘a green revolution to bring life and vitality back to the wasteland of contemporary politics’.
2006 D. Edgerton Shock of Old (2008) iii. 65 The green revolution in the poor countries mitigated a growing divergence between the agriculture of the rich world and that of the poor.
2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Apr. 50/1 There is a danger..that the rewards of a green revolution could be confined to an ‘eco-elite’ of people building solar homes and driving hybrids.
green road n. a grassy track or road; a farm road giving access to fields, etc.; an untarred road; see also quot. 1938.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > untarred
green road1798
dirt road1852
1458 in C. Innes & P. Chalmers Liber Aberbrothoc (1856) II. 104 And swa sowth..to the furd of Dersy vest the greyn rod.]
1798 W. Windham Diary (1866) 2 Mar. 389 Delightful ride, in delightful day, through green roads..to Braywick.
1812 Sporting Mag. Feb. 230/2 She [sc. a hare]..crossed the green roads leading to Brighton Race Course, on to Bevendean.
1865 Rep. Cases Queen's Bench 4 177 One of them..was a stoned road, the others were for the most part what are termed ‘green roads’, with gates wherever a hedge intersected them.
1900 D. W. Lewin in Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 718/1 [Kent] We call them green-roads.
1938 Oxoniensia 3 9 These limits embrace all the country between..the Northamptonshire forest-land on the one hand, and, on the other, all the land immediately visible or accessible from the ‘green road’ leading from the eastern counties to the Wiltshire Downs.
1943 Notes & Queries 175 203 Green-road. Farm-road to fields. Kent.
1991 S. Barry Prayers of Sherkin ii, in Plays: One (1997) 92 There is no high path to the farms, no green road to the middle farms, no metalled road to the school.
green rod n. the rod borne as the symbol of office by the Gentleman-ushers of the Order of the Thistle.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod > specific colour
white stick?a1425
white rod1523
white staff1533
green rod1721
Gold Stick1783
1721 in A. Ramsay Poems I. (List of Subscribers) Usher of the Green Rod, and daily Waiter to his Majesty.
1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) xviii. 235 The Officers attached to this Noble Order [of the Thistle] are: the Dean; Lord Lyon, King-at-Arms; and the Usher of the Green Rod.
1998 Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. Its direct history, and all the paraphernalia that goes with it—the magnificent green mantle,..the Green Rod..which is carried in procession to St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, and the badges with their St Andrew's Crosses—go back to James VII of Scotland.
green roof n. a roof covered with vegetation, esp. one intended to provide environmental benefits.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > types of roof generally
vaulta1387
plat-roofa1425
pend1454
faunsere1460
compassed roofa1552
terrace1572
sotie1578
crown1588
arch-roof1594
arch1609
under-roof1611
concameration1644
voltoa1660
hip roof1663
French roof1669
oversail1673
jerkinhead1703
mansard1704
curb-roof1733
shed roof1736
gable roof1759
gambrel roof1761
living roof1792
pent roof1794
span-roof1823
wagon-head1823
azotea1824
rafter roof1825
rooflet1825
wagon-vault1835
bell-roof1842
spire-roof1842
cradle-roof1845
packsaddle roof1845
open roof1847
umbrella roof1847
gambrel1848
packsaddle1848
compass-roof1849
saddleback1849
saddle roof1850
curbed roof1866
wagon-roof1866
saw-tooth roof1900
trough roof1905
skillion roof1911
north-light roof1923
shell roof1954
green roof1984
knee-roof-
1984 J. Littler & R. Thomas Design with Energy 91 ‘Green roofs’ are those covered with vegetation, usually grass. Their chief attraction is probably visual.
1993 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 6 Feb. b1 The German League of Cities concluded that flat ‘green’ roofs save energy by insulating the building from heat and cold.
2005 Guardian 12 Aug. i. 9/3 Green roofs..tend to be used by architects for visual reasons or to help with insulation and drainage, rather than to attract wildlife.
green rushes n. now historical fresh rushes spread on the floor of a house in honour of an esteemed guest who is a stranger; hence formerly as an exclamation of surprise or welcome on seeing a person who has been absent a long while; also in extended use.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > welcome > symbol of
rushesa1475
green rushes1546
red carpet1829
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iii. sig. Gii Streight as tholde wife vs espide..Grene rushes for this stranger, strewe here (quoth she).
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. K3 Indeede Doron..it is long since wee met,..when you come you shall haue greene rushes you are such a straunger.
1602 N. Breton Wonders worth Hearing (Grosart) 5 Greene rushes. M. Francisco it is a wonder to see you heere in this Country.
c1605 (?a1500) London Lickpenny (Harl. 367) l. 75 in Anglia (1898) 20 417 Ryshes grene an other gan greete.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. vii. 126 The Gothic apartment in which they generally met was, therefore, hastily put into the best order; their grooms were dispatched to collect green rushes to spread upon the floor.
1914 M. R. Warren Robin Hood & his Merry Men vi. 92 It was almost midnight before the guests were conducted to their beds. The floors were strewn with green rushes, while the beds were spread with linen that had lain in sweet herbs.
2001 A. Franklin & P. Mason Lammas i. i. 23 The woman of the house would don a new white apron and prepare to cook them [sc. potatoes], covering the kitchen floor with green rushes in their honor.
green salad n. a salad composed chiefly of green ingredients such as lettuce, chicory, cucumber, watercress, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > salad
saladc1390
round salad1578
acetar1623
acetary1657
green salad1675
sass1775
potato salad1796
Russian salad1846
egg salad1873
sunomono1900
salade niçoise1907
Spanish salad1911
Waldorf salad1911
gado-gado1924
Spanish sauce1928
panzanella1937
side salad1940
Caesar salad1946
Cobb salad1947
wedge salad1949
chaat1954
fattoush1955
tabbouleh1955
pico de gallo1958
Caesar1978
caprese1978
1675 L. Addison Present State Jews xviii. 173 The fourth Dish, is a green Salad attended with Vinegre, in which they dipping the Salad, call to minde the sower herbs wherewith their Fathers were commanded to eat the Passover.
1756 T. Turner Diary 19 June (1984) (modernized text) 46 My wife and I spent the even at my father Slater's. We dined off some rashers of pork and green salad.
1891 A. B. Marshall Larger Cookery Bk. x. 416 Green Salad à la Bretonne... Take two hearts of well-washed and dried crisp lettuce.
1939 Vogue's Cookery Bk. 69 Fennel is another herb that adds distinction to an ordinary green salad.
2007 New Yorker 23 July 24/1 The waitress..brought over a salmon burger for Riese and a green salad for the banker.
green-salted adj. (of an animal hide) salted down without tanning; cf. sense A. 6b.
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1833 Ohio Repository 27 Sept. 4/6 (advt.) To tanners. The subscriber takes leave to inform his customers & the trade at large, that he has just received his fall stock of hides, consisting of..1300 green salted patna kips.
1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather i. 55 Green salted [hides] are those that have been salted and are thoroughly cured.
1988 Jrnl. Commerce (Nexis) 29 Apr. b8 In order to have an idea about what the U.S. market offers, they are interested in receiving price quotations for wet blue, green-salted hides and crusts, and finished leathers.
green screen n. Cinematography and Television a version of the chromakey technique for combining two images, in which the background colour used is green; (also) a green background used for this; frequently attributive; cf. blue screen n. 1 and chromakey n.Green screens are used more often than blue screens in digital filming because digital cameras are typically more sensitive to green light than to blue.
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1983 Cinefantastique Sept. 58 (caption) Green screen backgrounds—as opposed to blue screen—were generally preferred because they tended to produce less video ‘noise’ and ‘static’ during compositing.
1995 C. Carter Truth is out There Behind the Scenes 35 Blue jeans are fine: she'll use a green-screen if necessary to pull off the shot.
1998 Interzone Dec. 39/2 We've wire-removed, rotoed and comped every greenscreen shot we can.
2006 N. Reardon On Camera viii. 127 She stands in front of the green screen. That is where the weather map that you see at home is electronically projected.
2009 R. Martin Reel Truth xv. 488 Lighting for green screen is not something most aspiring filmmakers can learn from repeated viewings of director's commentaries of Sin City 2, 300, or Beowulf.
green seal n. and adj. (a) n. wine distinguished by a green seal on the cork; (b) adj. designating such wine.Cf. yellow seal n. and adj. at yellow adj. and n. Compounds 2a.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [adjective] > other types of wine
redeOE
claretc1440
bastard?1530
helvine1601
Pramnian1601
Maronean1623
rancio1800
green seal1823
1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. i. x. 116 If there was but one bottle of wine in my cellar, they should have it. Betty—Betty, my dear, you know best about such things—just desire the Bishop to fetch some of the old green seal.
1853 Literary World (N.Y.) 2 Apr. 271/1 At the sergeant's wedding supper he put the famous green-seal bottle between himself and his bride, and the two had it all to themselves.
1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 8 After having discussed a bottle of his particular green-seal claret.
1885 Belgravia Feb. 493 Go and decant some green seal at once, will you.
1906 J. J. Black Eating to Live 305 Their Green Seal wine was formerly popular.
1999 Lancaster (Pa.) New Era (Nexis) 15 Jan. a10 The stunned chief executive arose..rode back to Wheatland (where he probably fortified himself with a bottle of Reigart's Old Green Seal madeira).
green shaving n. now rare the action of shaving the flesh side of an untanned animal hide; cf. sense A. 6b.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > cleaning hides > removing flesh
fleshing1777
green shaving1885
1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 275/1 The hides are next trimmed with a knife..and ‘green-shaving’ in turn removes the roughness from the flesh side of the skin.
1899 Leather Manufacturer Sept. 100/2 Considerable skill is required in the green shaving.
green shoots n. figurative signs of growth or renewal; (now) spec. indications of economic recovery following a period of recession; also occasionally in singular.
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the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > return to a previous better state > signs of growth or renewal
green shoots1849
1849 D. Wilson Pilgrim Fathers xvi, in W. H. Stowell Hist. Puritans in Eng. 481 The refugees of New England had no choice but to banish or to be banished; to root out the green shoots of emigrant Prelacy, or to let it grow.
1976 Economist 27 Mar. (Survey) 3/2 At that time the first green shoots of a new Australian self-sufficiency were already visible.
1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 1 July Every fresh green shoot of economic growth risks being trampled by economists arriving to analyze its significance.
1992 New Republic 13 Apr. 19/1 Every week in the last four months of 1991 was marked by predictions from one minister or another that the recession was about to end. The ‘green shoots’ of recovery were now showing.
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 73/1 We have seen some deceleration in the rate of economic decline, and many people are saying that ‘green shoots’ are showing.
green soil n. now rare soil in which vegetable crops may be raised; a soil of this type.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > land for sowing or planting > soil
green soil1794
striking-earth1863
1794 D. Ure Gen. View Agric. Roxburgh 9 The soils under tillage, are commonly arranged into two kinds, namely, light and clayey. The former is called turnip, or green soil.
1900 Univ. Tennessee Rec. Mar. 56 The yield of cowpeas will increase on these ‘green’ soils during the second and succeeding years.
green-soil v. now rare transitive to provide with green soil; (also) to sow (land) with seeds for green manure.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > prepare land or soil [verb (transitive)]
sweeten1733
resoil1817
green-soil1859
1859 Sydney Mag. Sci. & Art 2 204 I was so struck by this seeming folly, that I inquired of one of these gentlemen why he did not ‘green soil’ these lands, instead of abandoning them to weeds and desolation.
1899 H. R. Haggard in Longman's Mag. May 45 Our original idea was to greensoil the whole of this little field.
1904 Louisiana Planter & Sugar Manufacturer 3 Dec. 385/2 The committee..agreed that..the use of chemical fertilizers should be discontinued, and that the land be allowed to lie fallow or be green-soiled.
green space n. an area of grass or other vegetation; (in later use) esp. one maintained or designed for recreational or aesthetic purposes in an urban area; land of this type.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > protected area of vegetation
green spacea1770
conservation area1925
Site of Special Scientific Interest1953
a1770 M. Akenside Ode to Evening-Star ix, in Poems (1772) 288 See the green space..Where one old oak his awful shade Extends o'er half the level mead Inclos'd in woods profound.
1846 H. H. William Rom. Traitor viii. 124 There was a small green space by the wayside, covered with mossy turf.
1888 R. Lanciani Anc. Rome in Light of Recent Discov. iv. 74 Towards the end of the third century after Christ there were in ancient Rome eight campi or commons, green spaces set apart mostly for foot-races and gymnastic exercises.
1943 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 48 481/2 The new metropolitan district of the airplane age will thus include within its sphere of influence..open green spaces surrounding its taller buildings.
1995 Leisure Managem. Aug. 2/3 The need for a national agency for urban greenspace—a long-standing part of ILAM's Campaign for Leisure.
2008 Guardian 20 May (G2 section) 19/1 Green spaces are packed with everyone from tai chi practitioners and inline skaters to groups of circuit trainers.
green-stain v. poetic rare transitive to stain green.
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1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 22 Clover leaves green-stain his corduroys.
† green-staves n. Obsolete a person who carries a green staff or staves.
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a1618 J. Sylvester Hymn of Alms in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1026 But reverend Green-Staves, what's all this to you?
greenstick adj. Medicine attributive designating a type of bone fracture typically seen in children, in which the cortex of one side of the bone is cracked and that of the other side is bent, but the continuity of the bone is maintained.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [adjective] > fractures
brokena1400
bursted1527
comminuted1790
camerated1801
greenstick1850
impacted1850
spiral1897
busted1929
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vii. i. 465 There is also a Curvednesse, which may be reduced to a Fracture... It is as it were when you break a green Stick; it breaks, but separates not.]
1850 J. A. Orr Princ. Surg. ii. xi. 153 Green-stick fracture is when some osseous fibres only have given way.
1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. ii. viii. 116 The bullet..entered sideways and lodged against his collar-bone, which suffered a greenstick fracture.
2005 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 7 Aug. 84 He suffered internal injuries and a greenstick fracture of the arm during the game.
green-striper n. Navy slang an electrical engineer officer in the Royal Navy, whose uniform originally featured a green stripe on the sleeve.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > naval officer > reserve officer
green-striper1948
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 87 Green Striper, an officer in the Special Branch of the R.N.V.R. who wears an emerald-green stripe between the gold lace on his sleeves.
1951 A. H. Cherry Yankee R.N. 417 The third was Lieut. Archie Pitt, Starling's green-striper Asdic specialist.
1995 R. C. Weyman In Love & War 30 I introduced myself to the officer in charge of the radar equipment.., a ‘green-striper’.
green stuff n. [perhaps compare Norwegian grønsaker, Swedish grönsaker, Danish grønsager (plural) greens, vegetables] (a) vegetation, foliage; green vegetables or salad leaves; also in plural; (b) slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) cash, money; frequently with the.
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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > collectively
garden stuff1599
kitchen-tillage1669
wintergreensa1691
greens1710
kitchen stuffc1710
green ware1736
green stuff1778
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > green vegetables
green meatc1450
wintergreensa1691
greens1710
green ware1736
green stuff1778
grass1867
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > cultivated or for pasture
pasturea1400
fogc1400
vesture1455
vestiturec1460
pasturagea1522
feed1580
agistment1598
pasture grass1628
ear-grass1686
artificial grass1733
seeds1794
tath1807
green stuff1895
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. iv. 275 At supper we had a sallat, but a very poore one, and a great deale of chopt greene stuffe, (I know not what) amongst it.]
1778 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. I. iii. 209 Their dung and piss will enrich the ground much more than the green stuff ploughed in.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 97/1 Street sellers of ‘green stuff’, including water-cresses, chickweed and gru'n'sel, turf, &c.
1887 G. H. Devol Forty Years Gambler on Mississippi 207 Bill of course cleaned the crowd out, and reached the wharf-boat with a large roll of the good green stuff.
1895 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 340 Fields of greenstuff and forage.
1950 Pop. Mech. Jan. 166/2 Somebody was tapping a certain PX cash register of that precious green stuff.
2004 Global May 70/1 Credit cards are readily accepted almost everywhere. Needless to say, if you're heading off to more remote places a supply of the green stuff is always advisable.
2006 Cage & Aviary Birds 1 June 6/6 I have been feeding my birds different greenstuffs over the years, but I now have the ultimate in greens.
green syrup n. (in sugar manufacture) the syrup which flows off from the loaves (loaf n.1 3).
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1830 G. R. Porter Nature & Properties Sugar Cane xviii. 267 This first draining is called green syrup, on account of the new or green state of the sugar from which it runs.
1889 Times 19 Aug. 4/6 It was also somewhat impure and dirty, the loaves not being properly washed and the green syrup not being removed.
2000 C. C. Chou Handbk. Sugar Refining ii. xvii. 333 The syrup is discharged as wash and green syrup.
† green tar n. Obsolete a naturally occurring asphalt having a greenish colour.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > oil > petroleum > types of
Gabian oil1696
green tar1737
roily oil1877
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [noun] > bitumen or pitch > forms of
spaltam1532
maltha1601
manjak1657
green tar1737
stone-oil1838
1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 19 Mar. 2/2 (advt.) It hath also sufficient quantity of high Land proper for Tarr, Pitch, Turpentine and Green Tarr.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados ii. 50 As our most remarkable Fossils are of the Bituminous Kind, I shall begin with the green Tar. This is an oily Bitumonus Exudation..of a dirty Black, inclining to a Green.
1865 G. W. Gesner A. Gesner's Pract. Treat. Coal (ed. 2) ii. 43 There is a petroleum spring in St. Andrew's parish, Barbadoes. The product of this spring has been sold under the name of ‘green tar’, and ‘Barbadoes tar’.
green tea n. tea made from unfermented leaves, typically pale in colour and sometimes slightly astringent in flavour; (also) the leaves themselves.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea
green tea1704
black tea1706
Madeira tea1892
1704 London Gaz. No. 4059/4 Green and Bohee Tea.
1708 Brit. Apollo 29–31 Dec. Green Tea..Resolves, and Attenuates.
1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 434 I have frequently known the heart-burn cured..by chewing green tea.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 379 There are three kinds of green tea..one called hyson, hayssuen, is composed of leaves..carefully picked.
1856 C. S. Stewart Brazil & La Plata xxvii. 358 [They] sat down to a supper of ‘pain perdu’ and green tea.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 122/4 In Ceylon and India most of the tea is black tea, while in China and Japan green tea represents more than half of the manufacture.
1989 J. Melville Haiku for Hanae (1990) xi. 101 She brought green tea and small bean-jam cakes individually wrapped in soft rice-paper.
2005 New Scientist 26 Mar. 20/3 The anti-cancer compound in green tea, epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG, works by blocking the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase.
green thumb n. North American = green fingers n., esp. in to have a green thumb.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > knowledge of herbs and plants
wort-cunning1864
green fingers1906
green thumb1937
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden [verb (intransitive)] > be successful in gardening
to have a green thumb1937
to have green fingers1943
1937 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 9 July 6/2 Besides being green-eyed, Miss Dvorak has what is known as ‘the green thumb.’ That's horticultural slang for being a successful gardener with instinctive understanding of growing things.
1943 R. Carson Bride saw Red xvii. 203 Plants don't grow for me, but my wife's got a green thumb.
1962 Listener 19 July 89/1 Every kind of briar, of bush rose, of rare bulb, and flowering tree flourished under her green thumb.
2000 J. Cummings World Food: Thailand 187 If you have a green thumb and the space for cultivation, Thai herbs such as lemongrass and holy basil can easily be grown in a hothouse.
green-thumbed adj. North American = green-fingered adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [adjective] > successful in gardening
green-fingered1918
green-thumbed1937
1937 Washington Post 6 June f4/2 He is, I think, the ‘green-thumbed’ type of gardener, who has lived and loved his flowers and has learned from them and from the soil.
1986 Cincinnati Mag. Aug. 93/3 Many home gardeners have the green-thumbed ability to coax water lilies out of stone, so to speak.
2007 B. Braddock Down in Orburndale ii. 13 The front yard..was lush with shrubbery and ablaze with azaleas and poinsettias, a tribute to my green-thumbed parents.
Green Thursday n. (esp. in German-speaking contexts) the Thursday before Good Friday; Maundy Thursday. [After German Gründonnerstag (in Middle High German as a phrasal construction, grüene donerstac; compare also Middle Dutch groene Donderdag, Middle Low German grȫne donrestach); the ultimate origin and motivation of the name is uncertain.]
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1854 A. M. Howitt Art-Student in Munich xxiii. 263 A blessed feeling of all the beauty..in the bursting of buds, in the up-springing of weeds and flowers, and in the carolling of birds—such are my memories of the ‘Vesper’ in the Hof-Kapelle on Green Thursday.
1870 Harper's Mag. Oct. 746/1 Cives, especially if eaten on Green-Thursday, protect against the evil-eye.
2003 Church Times 11 Apr. 9/1 Herb Pudding has a Danish equivalent for Maundy Thursday (or ‘Green Thursday’) called Borecole.
green time n. the length of time for which a traffic signal displays a green light; (also) the length of time for which a vehicle can travel through a series of traffic signals without encountering a red or amber light.
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1945 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 7 May 5/5 Feature of the signal will be to provide more of a balance between the interval of green time and the interval of red time.
1952 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. 23/7 The lights will be geared to a modified progressive cycle that will allow equal ‘green’ time to travelers in both directions and should enable motorists to average about six blocks between red lights.
1998 R. Cervero Transit Metropolis 310 Green time in outlying sectors will be shortened to reduce the discharge rate of inflowing traffic.
green ware n. †(a) = green stuff n. (obsolete); (b) unfired ceramics (see sense A. 6e).
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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [noun] > collectively
garden stuff1599
kitchen-tillage1669
wintergreensa1691
greens1710
kitchen stuffc1710
green ware1736
green stuff1778
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > green vegetables
green meatc1450
wintergreensa1691
greens1710
green ware1736
green stuff1778
grass1867
1736 W. Ellis New Exper. Husbandry 109 Feeding his Ews, when no other Green Ware is to be had [sc. than rye].
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July xvii. 104 Turneps, Clover, and other Green-ware.
1833 Gazetteer State of Pennsylvania i. 62 Four furnaces for hollow green ware at Philadelphia.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 423/1 Green Ware (Ceramics), articles just molded or otherwise shaped, before drying and baking.
1922 Jrnl. Amer. Ceramic Soc. 5 498 The average weight of one car loaded with green ware ready for the kiln is slightly over ten thousand pounds.
1999 M. Ostermann New Maiolica vii. 143/1 The buff-coloured greenware was sprayed with a heavy zircon-whitened slip before bisquing to 1120°C.
greenway n. (a) a grassy path or way; (figurative) the pleasant path, the ‘broad way’ (cf. primrose path n.); (b) chiefly U.S. a piece of undeveloped land near an urban area, set aside for recreational use or environmental conservation.In earlier versions of quot. a1300 there appears to have been confusion between the rhyming words.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > covered with verdure
greenwayOE
green gatec1540
greensward way1703
trace1871
tapis vert1960
OE Bounds (Sawyer 1347) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 308 On þære dic on þa dene þæt andlong dene on þone grenan weg.
OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxli. 4 On þyssum grenan wege, þe ic gange on, me oferhydige æghwær setton gearwe grine.
lOE Bounds (Sawyer 811) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 655 Of writeles þorne andlang þæs grenan weges to wuda huw on butan þæt hit cymð hut æt beorhtulfes treowe.
a1300 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Jesus Oxf.) l. 335 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 70 Lete we þeo brode stret and þene wey grene..Go we þene narewe wey, þene wey so schene [a1200 Trin. Cambr. [L]ate we þe brode strate and þane weg bene..Go we þane narewe pað and þene wei grene].
c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) l. 179 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 6 Ȝwane þou comest to þe heued of þis valeie, a grene wei þov schalt wiende, Þat gez euene riȝt puyr est, and to parays gez þat on ende.
c1325 in M. Gelling & D. M. Stenton Place-names Oxfordshire (1953) I. 201 Seynt Edburghes grene wey.
a1400 Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 92 Swyche men & wymmen..leden þe folk in a grene waye toward helle, For grene waie is soft and fair, & so ben her wordes.
c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 139 (MED) Þe forsaide Abbot..had A Grene waye fro the towne of ledewell unto þe forsaide felde.
1645 J. Milton Sonnet ix, in Poems 50 Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shun'd the broad way and the green.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Green Way, a road over turf between hedges, usually without gates.
1943 Notes & Queries 9 Oct. 234 Wood-riding, green way across a wood. Northants.
1965 Washington Post 8 Apr. f3/2 Preservation of natural form and foliage and clustering of usable land space..in a common green-way at the rear of the development.
1970 Times 26 Aug. 10/3 A plan for turning two railway lines..into greenways for walkers, horseriders, and cyclists.
1999 Nature Conservancy Sept. 30/2 The Berkeley Triangle Project will transfer acreage to several state agencies to create a 10,000-acre greenway that will include protected habitat for threatened northern pine snakes.
green whey n. Cheese-making the pale green or greenish-yellow whey which separates naturally from the curd during coagulation, esp. as opposed to whey which is expressed from the curd at a later stage; cf. white whey at whey n. 1b.
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1708 Rider's Brit. Merlin May sig. B5 Green Whey excellent against Cholar.
1819 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 65 In some instances, what is called ‘the green whey’, or that which is taken from the cheese-tub after the curd is formed, and the ‘white’, or that which is expressed from the curd itself, are at first treated separately.
1912 J. P. Sheldon Dairying 368 The curd..is allowed to settle for a time, during which the green whey comes out of it freely, the whey coming upwards, the curd settling downwards in the kettle.
2005 P. Kindstedt Amer. Farmstead Cheese v. 97/1 For most cheeses a sharp, clean split with the accumulation of green whey at the base of the cleavage indicates that the curd is ready for cutting.
(b) In names of animals. See also greenback n., greenfly n., greenfinch n., etc.
green anole n. a green-coloured anole; spec. Anole carolinensis, which is native to south-eastern North America and the Caribbean and is popular as a pet.
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1934 Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 77 128 Anolis petersii. It is the rather sluggish, heavy bodied, green Anole which is not uncommon in [etc].
1956 Copeia No. 3. 178/2 [List of common names] Anolis—Anoles. Anolis carolinensis—Green Anole.
1983 V. Brown Investigating Nature through Outdoor Projects vi. 69 Geckos..and the green anole lizard (sometimes called a chameleon) of the southern states both can climb upside down along ceilings.
2000 Today's Parent Oct. 26/3 In Lizards Don't Wear Lip Gloss, the sisters go up against Angus the green anole, an ornery reptile who escapes from his vivarium.
green bass n. U.S. any of several freshwater basses of the genus Micropterus (family Centrarchidae); esp. the largemouth bass, M. salmoides.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > perca huro (sea-bass)
sea bass1765
green bass1820
black bass1840
growler1880
1820 Western Rev. 2 54 Ohio Red-eye. Aplocentrus calliops... Vulgar names Red-eyes, Bride pearch, Batchelor's pearch, Green bass.
1897 Outing 30 438/1 The boys called the rock bass the ‘black bass’, while large and small-mouth black bass were known as ‘green’ bass.
1965 A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 473/1 The largemouth bass is regionally known as green bass, green trout, Oswego bass, and black bass.
† green bird n. Obsolete spec. the greenfinch, Carduelis chloris.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Carduelis > carduelis chloris (greenfinch)
greenfincha1500
green bird1675
green linnet1678
green grosbeak1776
greeny1825
1675 J. Blagrave New Additions Art Husbandry (new ed.) 107 Many Country-People cannot distinguish a Canary from one of our common Green-Birds.
1737 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Eng. Song-birds 29 (heading) Of the Green-finch, Green-linnet: Or, as it is commonly called, the Green-bird.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 60/1 Greenfinches (called green birds, or sometimes green linnets, in the streets).
green blight n. now rare (in singular and plural) green aphids (greenfly) collectively.
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1843 Zoologist 1 123 The parent fly of this insect was black, with very long transparent wings, like the green blight so often seen upon rose-trees.
1879 W. Rossiter Illustr. Dict. Sci. Terms Green blights = Aphidæ: insects belonging to Homoptera.
1907 ‘V. Cross’ Life's Shop Window vi. 96 Green blight, in countless thousands, clinging to the rose stems.
green-bone n. any of several fishes with greenish bones, spec. †(a) the garfish or garpike, Belone belone (obsolete); (b) the viviparous blenny, Zoarces viviparus; (c) New Zealand the butterfish, Odax pullus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > member of family Zoarcidae (klipfish)
eel-poutOE
green-bone1525
rockfish1731
mutton-fish1736
klipfish1790
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Belonidae (gar-fish)
horn-fishOE
hornkeckc1425
garfishc1440
horn-stocka1485
green-bone1525
hornbeak1565
thorn-beak1570
horn-back1598
needlefish1601
spit-fish1601
sea-needle1603
ganefish1611
snacot-fish1611
greenbacka1682
bill-fisha1757
gar1767
sea-pike1769
saury1771
gar-pike1776
sea-snipea1832
mackerel guide1835
long-nose1836
gore-fish1839
gorebill1862
mackerel-scout1880
Long Tom1881
snipe-eel1882
1525 in Exc. e Libris Dom. Jac. V (Bannatyne Club) 7 Grenbans, podlokis,..crunans.
1699 R. Sibbald Provision for Poor iii. 23 The red Gurnard, the Brasse, the Greenbone, the Hirling.
1786 North-country Angler xxiii. 77 And there is an eel called a burrabut or green-bone, that is, a viviparous fish.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 291 The Viviparous Blenny (blennius viviparus)..from the colour of the back-bone, has here got the name of greenbone.
1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 29 Belone ferox, the ‘Long Tom’ of the fishermen, ‘green-bone’, and ‘gar-fish’ of Europeans.
c1920 J. H. Beattie Trad. Lifeways Southern Maori (1994) 501 The kelp fish of Canterbury is the Blue-bone of Nelson and may be the Green-bone of Southland.
1957 A. W. Parrott Sea Angler's Fishes N.Z. 130 It is unfortunate that the Butterfish has been given a variety of local names.., as for example, Kelpfish, Kelp-salmon, Greenbone, and several other names.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Green, greenbean the fish, the viviparous blenny, green bone.
greenbottle n. any of several blowflies of a metallic green colour, of the genus Lucilia (family Calliphoridae); esp. the common L. caesar and L. sericata; cf. bluebottle n. 3.In quot. 1828 in a figurative context.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Muscidae > musca caesar
greenbottle1828
1828 Life in West or Curtain Drawn II. ii. 35 The large blue bottle, the green bottle, the useful and industrious bee, and other ‘flies’ of the like kind.
1844 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 1 June 344/1 Amongst the most familiar of these are the green-bottle, the blue-bottle or flesh-fly, the larder-fly.., the biting house-fly.
1915 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre Hunting Wasps xvi. 280 It is a golden-green Fly, a Green-bottle (Lucilia Cæsar), who lives on putrid flesh.
1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) v. 121 Next come the specialized flesh-flies such as Lucilia, the greenbottle.
green bug n. now chiefly U.S. any of various green aphids (greenfly) and other green insects that are typically pests of plants; (in later use) esp. the widespread aphid Schizaphis graminum, which infests grasses and cereal crops.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis
cantharidesa1398
blackfly1652
greenflya1680
green louse1682
green bug1704
collier1742
puceron1744
plant louse1763
aphis1771
leaf louse1774
smother-fly1785
tree-louse1797
ant cow1875
aphid1884
stilt-bug1895
1704 Nat. Hist. vi, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 216 The Green-bugg. His Head yellow, above mixt with green; it stinks much.
1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May xv. 184 An Insect seldom, or never, misses attacking our green Cherries;..we call them Ladlemen, or the Green Fly, or Bug.
1879 J. H. Comstock Rep. Cotton Insects (U.S. Dept. Agric.) Appendix 2. 485 Then there is what is called the green bug. This insect does its mischief by sucking the limbs and branches of the plant.
1908 P. T. Dondlinger Bk. of Wheat x. 180 The Spring Green Aphis (Toxoptera graminum Rond).—This species, popularly called the ‘green bug’, was first described in 1852.
1971 R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) ix. 243 The greenbug, a species of aphid, is the most destructive pest of small grains in central and southwestern states.
2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies xi. 290 The southern green stinkbug, Nezara viridula (L.). This serious crop pest [is] also known as the green vegetable bug, or simply the green bug.
green cormorant n. the shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis.
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1804 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds II. 390 (heading) Shag, Skart, Scarfe, or Green Cormorant.
1980 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 26 233 Bottom left—shag or green cormorant—a bird with various religious associations.
green crab n. a green-coloured crab; esp. the common shore crab, Carcinus maenas, of north Atlantic coasts.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > member of Portunidae (lady-crab)
velvet crab1681
green crab1763
lady crab1844
sand crab1844
shore-crab1850
devil crab1871
partan1880
velvet fiddler crab1882
shuttle-crab1889
sook1950
muddy1953
1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. p. xxvii The Green Crab with red claws, is of the same size as the Blue Crab; but may be easily distinguished from them by their colour.
1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 580 Any living thing that can be caught becomes prey to the Green-Crab.
2005 A. Burdick Out of Eden (2006) xxi. 278 If a green crab and a hemigrapsus shore crab are left alone.., will the green crab eat the shore crab?
green dolphin n. now rare the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, which attacks peas and other legumes.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > acyrthosiphon pisum (green dolphin)
green dolphin1836
1836 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 136/2 On inspection it is discovered that every drooping head is filled with the green dolphin.
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 339 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI These plants are often smothered with lice, or green-dolphin, as they are termed.
1926 F. V. Theobald Plant Lice Great Brit. I. 132 This common aphid is usually spoken of as the Green Pea Louse or Green Dolphin.
green drake n. a common mayfly of the genus Ephemera; esp. the brown mayfly, E. vulgata; (also) an artificial fly made in imitation of this.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Ephemeroptera > family Ephemeridae > ephemera vulgata
green drake1676
death drake1766
1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler 323 The Green-drake and Stone-fly.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 26 Grey-drake, Found in general where the Green-drake is, and in shape and dimensions perfectly the same.
1884 G. F. Braithwaite Salmonidæ Westmorland vi. 26 The most beautiful species of our ephemera, the green and grey drakes.
1990 Fly Fisherman Dec. 15/1 His stonefly and Green Drake imitations were primarily to be fished for trout.
green eel n. †(a) any of various green-coloured eels; esp. a form of the common eel, Anguilla anguilla (obsolete); (b) Australian the yellow moray, Gymnothorax prasinus (now rare).
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1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler x. 191 Some curious searchers into the natures of fish, observe that there be several sorts or kinds of Eeles, as the silver-Eele, and green or greenish Eel (with which the River of Thames abounds, and are called Gregs); and a blackish Eele. View more context for this quotation
1736 T. Boreman Descr. Great Variety Animals & Veg. iii. 33 The Green Eel is of the bigness of a large common Eel, and like it in shape.
1800 S. Taylor Angling in all its Branches ii. 135 The Green Eel has a broad flat head, and is much flatter towards the tail than the other.
1880 Rep. Royal Comm. Fisheries New S. Wales 35 The ‘green eel’ (Muræna afra) is found abundantly in the holes and crevices of the rocks everywhere.
1922 H. A. Smith Official Year Bk. New S. Wales 1921 84 The commonest species is the green eel (Gymnothorax prasina).
greeneye n. any of various small, slender deep-sea fishes that constitute the widespread family Chlorophthalmidae, which have large iridescent green eyes.
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1907 H. M. Smith Fishes N. Carolina 140 Genus Chlorophthalmus Bonaparte. Green-eyes. Small, smelt-like fishes with terete, slightly compressed body, long head, [etc.].
1954 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 106 208 Mr. Henry W. Fowler, Curator of Fishes, reports..from off the New Jersey coast, a new record, the Greeneye, Chlorophthalmus chalybaeus.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xvii. 296 (caption) Deep-sea environment... Representative species are a mesopelagic lanternfish.., benthopelagic rattail and halosaur, and benthic snailfish and greeneye.
green frog n. any of various frogs or (rarely) toads, esp. of the genus Rana, that are typically green-coloured; spec. (in later use) (a) the frog R. clamitans of North America; (b) any of a group of frogs that includes the European edible frog ( R. esculenta) and its parent species the marsh frog ( R. ridibunda) and the pool frog ( R. lessonae) (also called water frog).
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1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vii. 151 The green Frog..is by Topsel taken to be venemous; and so is the Padock, or Frog-Padock. View more context for this quotation
1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 324 The small Tree Frog, or Green Frog, is distinguished from other kinds by its small size, and green colour.
1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 169 Of the Frog kind are six species:—1. the Toad; 2. the pond Frog; 3. the speckled Frog; 4. the tree Toad; 5. the bull Frog; and 6. the green Frog.
1953 H. S. Zim & H. M. Smith Reptiles & Amphibians v. 133 The Green Frog is smaller..with a yellowish throat, especially in the males.
2002 E. N. Arnold Field Guide Reptiles & Amphibians Brit. & Europe (ed. 2) 88 Water or Green frogs are often noisy, frequently aquatic and usually gregarious.
green grosbeak n. now rare the greenfinch, Carduelis chloris.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Carduelis > carduelis chloris (greenfinch)
greenfincha1500
green bird1675
green linnet1678
green grosbeak1776
greeny1825
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. 322 (running title) Green grosbeak.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Green-olf, the green finch, or, more properly, green grosbeak. Parus viridus.
1905 C. H. M. Gaskell Spring in Shropshire Abbey iv. 179 A lintie (a linnet), a green grosbeak (greenfinch), a Harry redcap (goldfinch).
green heron n. a small heron of North and Central America, Butorides virescens, with a dark greenish back and wings and a chestnut neck.Formerly considered to be conspecific with the striated heron, B. striata, of the Old World.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > butorides virescens (green heron)
crab-catcher1699
shitepoke1775
green heron1785
poke1791
crabier1825
fly-up-the-creek1857
1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 447 Green Heron... Ardea virescens. Lin. Syst. 238... Inhabits from New York to South Carolina.
1855 Knickerbocker 46 222 Night-herons, snowy-herons, green-herons, and little-herons construct their nests so closely together that four or five hundred of them may be counted upon twenty or thirty cedars.
1927 Wilson Bull. 39 81 This report has to do with some observations made in a Green Heron colony during the seasons of 1921 and 1922.
1998 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. 11/4 Winn infects the reader with her enthusiasm for life in the park: ‘A nest!’ (Green herons in the Ramble.) ‘It was a loon!’ (A Gavia immer at the Reservoir.)
green lacewing n. any of numerous lacewings that constitute the family Chrysopidae, mostly of the genera Chrysopa and Chrysoperla, which typically have greenish bodies and golden eyes and are the most familiar neuropterans.
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1875 J. C. Melliss St. Helena iii. 171 Chrysopa, Leach. C. congrua, Walk.—One of the green Lace-wing-flies.]
1889 Bull. Agric. Coll. Michigan Exper. Station No. 51. 6 Chrysopa-Flies. These beautiful green lace wings, with their brilliant golden eyes, are no mean factor in this warfare against plant lice.
1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iv. 130 The Hemerobiidae (Brown Lacewings) and Chrysopidae (Green Lacewings) are notably beneficial since their larvae destroy large numbers of Homoptera and other small insects.
2001 BBC Wildlife Sept. 9/2 Green lacewings Chrysopa carnea are among the insects drawn to lit windows and often find their way indoors.
green leek n. Australian (more fully green leek parrot) any of several predominantly green parrots; esp. the superb parrot, Polytelis swainsonii, of south-east Australia.
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1845 Bell's Life in Sydney 18 Jan. 3/4 A most extraordinary bird of the parrot species, commonly called the green leek, a native of New South Wales.
1889 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 4 418 Trichoglossus concinnus..known as ‘Green-leek’ and ‘Musk-paroquet’.
1945 M. Raymond Smiley 9 He opened the dilly-bag and disclosed a young greenleek parrot.
2009 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 11 May 3 Sometimes referred to as the green leek parrot, the social bird nests in the hollows of the red gums.
green lizard n. any of various green-coloured lizards; spec.: (a) a large lizard, Lacerta viridis (family Lacertidae), found from Iberia to Ukraine; (b) U.S. the green anole, Anole carolinensis.
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 182 Make a powder of a greene lizard, and arsnicke, put it into the eie [sc. of a horse], for to fret awaie the naile.
1685 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis (new ed.) i. 45 The Green Lizard. It was brought from the West-Indies.
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 131 Green Lizards are very harmless and beautiful, having a little Bladder under their Throat, which they fill with Wind.
1776 S. Ward Mod. Syst. Nat. Hist. XI. 57 The green lizard is so called from its colour, and is larger than the common sort.
1832 T. Brown Zoologist's Text-bk. I. 291 Lacerta viridis.—The Green Lizard. Bright green, with numerous black or brown points above.
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 96 The green lizard (Anolis principalis) of the Southern United States is sometimes called the American chameleon.
1973 A. d'A. Bellairs & J. F. D. Frazer Smith's Brit. Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 5) ii. 17 The introduction of..Lacerta viridis, the Green Lizard, into the south of England has also proved unsuccessful.
2004 Herpetologica 60 193/2 Sightings and photographic records were communicated..by oil workers and biologists who referred to this lizard [sc. Liolaemus gununakuna] as the ‘green lizard’.
green louse n. now rare a greenfly or aphid.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis
cantharidesa1398
blackfly1652
greenflya1680
green louse1682
green bug1704
collier1742
puceron1744
plant louse1763
aphis1771
leaf louse1774
smother-fly1785
tree-louse1797
ant cow1875
aphid1884
stilt-bug1895
1682 tr. J. Goedaert Of Insects §8. 125 The Worm of the 134th. Table, feeds of little creatures, which they call Green Lice; and do lick the fat of Roses.
1703 tr. H. van Oosten Dutch Gardener iv. xii. 223 The green Louse can do hurt.
1827 E. Bevan Honey-bee i. 31 The fecundation of the female aphides or green lice, by the males of one generation, will continue for a year.
1944 Henderson's Garden Guide & Rec. (rev. ed.) 92 Carnation. For Green Lice fumigate or spray [insecticide numbers] 2 or 10.
green mamba n.
Brit. /ˌɡriːn ˈmambə/
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U.S. /ˌɡrin ˈmɑmbə/
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/ˌɡrin ˈmæmbə/
,
West African English /ˌɡrin ˈmamba/
either of two venomous green arboreal snakes of the genus Dendroaspis (family Elapidae), found in forests in Africa: the common D. angusticeps of southern Africa, and D. viridis of West Africa.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > dendraspis angusticeps (mamba)
mamba1859
green mamba1862
1862 J. S. Dobie Jrnl. 16 Oct. in S. Afr. Jrnl. (1945) 44 He called it a green mamba and was about 9 feet long.
1912 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. (ed. 2) vi. 196 Green Mambas are always found in the forests, clumps of tangled creeper-covered bush, and wooded valleys.
1969 J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson Zool. Trop. Afr. iv. 74 Although longer, heavier and more terrestrial than the forest-dwelling green mamba..it [sc. the black mamba] is not confined to the ground.
2003 Jack May 146/1 The Gbayas speak with fear of gòk gòrò, a deadly green tree snake (most probably the green mamba) which sometimes hides inside bees nests.
green pigeon n. any of numerous predominantly green-coloured pigeons constituting the genus Treron, widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Treron (green pigeon)
green pigeon1698
fruit-pigeon1865
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 175 Our usual Diet was (besides plenty of Fish) Water-Fowl, Peacocks, Green Pidgeons, spotted Deer, Sabre, Wild Hogs, and sometimes Wild Cows.
1767 J. Kindersley Let. Nov. (1777) lx. 259 Of the feathered race, peacocks, wild ducks, wild geese, partridges, beccaficos, green pigeons, and a variety of others.
1831 J. Gould Century of Birds Pl. lviii The present as well as the preceding species, together with several others, are known to the natives of India by the general name of the Green Pigeon.
1928 H. Whistler Pop. Handbk. Indian Birds 297 The Green Pigeon is found almost throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, and farther east.
1997 B. McCrea et al. S. Afr.: Rough Guide 405 Look out for the flashing red flight feathers of fruit-eating birds like the purple-crested lourie or green pigeons.
green pike n. North American in later use any of several predatory North American fishes; esp. the walleye, Sander vitreus, and the chain pickerel, Esox niger.In quot. 1804: a gar, Lepidosteus osseus.
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1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 120 Green Pike. Esox Viridis... Native of the seas about Carolina.
1877 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 10. 46 Stizostethium vitreum... Wall-eyed Pike... Green Pike.
1920 W. Packard Old Plymouth Trails 330 Esox reticulatus..known sometimes as green pike or jack, but more often as pond pickerel.
1946 F. LaMonte N. Amer. Game Fishes 128 Eastern Pickerel—Esox niger... Green Pike.
1983 G. C. Becker Fishes Wisconsin 871 Walleye. Stizostedion vitreum vitreum... Other common names..green pike.
green plover n. (a) the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus; (b) U.S. the American golden plover, Pluvialis dominica.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing)
lapwingc1050
wypec1325
tewhita1525
peewita1529
black plover1538
bastard plover1544
green plover1550
lappoint1584
peesweep1772
peeweepa1825
lapwing-gull1844
flapjack1847
teeack1869
flop-wing1885
peewee1886
silver plover1890
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis apricaria (Eurasian golden plover)
green plover1550
spotted plover1750
golden plover1766
yellow plover1793
grey plover1885
squealer1888
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis dominica (American golden plover)
green plover1550
whistling plover1668
golden plover1766
frost bird1803
greenback1843
prairie plover1851
prairie snipe1851
prairie pigeon1874
kolea1888
squealer1888
1550 By Mayre: Myschefes & Hynderaunces of Comon & Publike Welth (single sheet) Plouers grene of the best, the dosen iii. s.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 171 Many sorts of Fowles, as..the gray and greene Plouer, some wilde Ducks.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 308 The green Plover, Pluvialis viridis.
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. vii. 154 The Green-Plover or Pewit..is therein called the ungrateful Bird.
1828 W. Scott Tales of Grandfather (1841) 2nd Ser. l. 228/2 That beautiful bird the Green-plover, in Scottish called the Peese-weep.
1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 195 American Golden Plover... At Portsmouth, N.H., and in Massachusetts at Salem and Chatham, Green Plover.
1922 N. Blanchan Game Birds (rev. ed.) ii. 239 American Golden Plover... Called also: Field Plover; Greenback; Green Plover; Pale-breast; [etc.].
1996 S. E. G. Lea & M. Kiley-Worthington in V. Bruce Unsolved Myst. of Mind vii. 229 The Green Plover gets its alternative name of Lapwing from the way it leads potential predators away from its nest by appearing to be injured.
green pollack n. the saithe or coalfish, Pollachius virens; (later also) the pollack, P. pollachius; cf. green cod n. 2a.
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lob-keelingc1325
coalfish1337
lob1357
pollack1427
gull-fish1583
saithe1632
colmey1654
billard1661
rawlin pollack1673
sey-pollack1698
blackmouth1703
billet1769
greenback1772
green cod1776
glossan1780
stenlock179.
harbin1806
coalsey1829
rock salmon1831
rauning pollack1835
green pollack1859
coaly1915
1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 455 The Green Pollack, M[erlangus] leptocephalus, is deep green above, silvery-white beneath.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 295 Gadus virens..Coal-fish..also locally as..green-cod, green-pollack, gray-lord.
1933 K. Roberts Arundel 6 The green pollocks come up the river by the millions.
1988 T. Scully Viandier of Taillevent 199 Colin... A variety of cod, and resembling it, the coalfish (Pollachius virens: ‘green pollack’) is to be prepared like a cod.
green racer n. U.S. either of two North American colubrid snakes, the blue racer, which is a form or subspecies of the racer ( Coluber constrictor), and the striped whip snake, Masticophis taeniatus.
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1860 J. G. Cooper in Explor. & Surv. Railroad Route to Pacific: Zool. Rep. (U.S. War Dept.) 301 (heading) Bascanion vetustus, Baird & Girard. The Green Racer.
1900 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1898 794 The Zamenis constrictor is the ‘black snake’ of the East and the ‘blue’ and ‘green racer’ of the West.
1957 A. H. Wright & A. A. Wright Handbk. Snakes U.S. & Canada I. 464 Green racer... Masticophis taeniatus schotti.
1977 Condor 79 246/2 The green racer (Coluber constrictor) and bullsnake (Pituophis melanoleucus) together constituted the second most frequently consumed prey group.
green sandpiper n. a small migratory sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, which has a dark greenish-brown back and wings and breeds in subarctic Europe and Asia; (U.S.) the similar solitary sandpiper, T. solitaria.
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1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. 125 The green Sandpiper.
1829 A. E. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 127 [The solitary sandpiper]..has considerable resemblance, both in manners and markings, to the Green Sandpiper of Europe.
1877 Zoologist 1 524 A Green Sandpiper appeared here, and took up its quarters at a little pool close to the shore.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. 245 Solitary sandpiper... Green Sandpiper; American Green Sandpiper.
1999 Guardian 2 Feb. i. 18/7 I arrived to find a green sandpiper busy sinking its bill into the obviously appetising sludge.
green sea turtle n. the green turtle, Chelonia mydas.
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1833 Christian's Penny Mag. 5 Mar. 165/1 The green sea-turtles generally assemble in numbers: they can remain long under water, and sleep upon it.
1892 W. B. Stevens Through Texas 105/1 People who pay for green sea turtle soup at the rate of about 5c a spoonful can figure out the profit in a 650-pounder.
1921 E. W. Nelson Lower Calif. & its Nat. Resources 135 Green sea turtles are plentiful about the southern coast.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 29 Apr. 17/1 (heading) An experiment by marine biologists working off the coast of Florida has demonstrated the phenomenal ability of the green sea turtle to sense subtle variations in the earth's magnetic field.
green sunfish n. a North American freshwater fish of the genus Lepomis (family Centrarchidae); spec. the common and widespread L. cyanellus, which has a greenish back and markings.
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1887 36th Ann. Rep. Indiana State Board Agric. 1886 169 The green sunfish abounds throughout the entire Mississippi Valley.
1949 L. S. Caine N. Amer. Fresh Water Sport Fish 38 Bluegill—Lepomis macrochirus... Colloquial name... Green Sunfish.
1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World ix. 170 Game fish now found in the largest lakes include northern pike, walleye,..crappie, and green sunfish.
2009 Sundance (Wyoming) Times 14 May a16/5 Walleye and tiger musky are stocked in the reservoir to control green sunfish.
green swallow n. (a) any of several New World swallows of the genus Tachycineta, with greenish-blue plumage; esp. the tree swallow, T. bicolor, of North America; (now rare); †(b) either of two perching birds of Central and South America, the swallow-tailed cotinga, Phibalura flavirostris (family Cotingidae), and the swallow tanager, Tersina viridis (family Thraupidae) (obsolete rare).
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1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) II. 48 Hirundo viridis, Wilson.—H. bicolor, Vieill. Green, Blue, or White Bellied Swallow.
1837 W. Swainson On Nat. Hist. & Classif. Birds II. 74 The third aberrant division [of chatterers] is indicated by the European chatterer, the singular fork-tailed genus Phibalura (P. flavirostris Vieil.) and the Procnias ventralis Ill., or green swallow of Brazil.
1849 P. H. Gosse in E. Gosse Life Philip Henry Gosse (1890) viii. 223 Received green swallow from Jamaica.
1903 Catal. Coll. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus. III. 235 Tachycineta albilinea... The eggs of the Central-American Green Swallow in the Collection measure respectively: ·67 by ·51; ·7 by ·52.
green toad n. any of several greenish toads of the genus Bufo; esp. B. viridis of Eurasia and B. debilis of southern North America.
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1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 153 The Green Toad is a native of Germany and some other parts of Europe.
1862 New Amer. Cycl. XV. 512/2 The other European species is the natterjack, mephitic, or green toad (Bufo calamita, Laur.).
1902 Trans. Texas Acad. Sci. 4 101 Budo debilis... Green Toad. As far as my observations go, this species is common in but one locality.
1965 Biol. Bull. 128 218 The European green toad (Bufo viridis) is a surprisingly euryhaline amphibian.
1998 P. C. Rosen et al. in B. Tellman et al. Future Arid Grasslands 68 Green Toad—Bufo debilis. Seen breeding in large numbers..in shallow grassland temporary ponds.
green tree ant n. a green-bodied arboreal weaver ant, Oecophylla smaragdina, of Asia and northern Australia, which makes nests by stitching leaves together and has a painful bite.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > unspecified types
musk-ant1671
velvet ant1748
soldier1781
raffle ant1793
Amazon-ant1824
green tree ant1845
brown ant1868
harvesting ant1873
Amazon1880
crazy ant1885
crazy ant1905
1845 L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. 16 June (1847) 291 It was at the lower part of the Lynd that we first saw the green-tree ant; which seemed to live in small societies in rude nests between the green leaves of shady trees.
1936 T. C. Roughley Wonders Great Barrier Reef 176 ‘Hell has no fury like a woman scorned,’ wrote Congreve early in the seventeenth century. The green tree-ant was obviously not known then.
2009 Townsville Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 4 Apr. 26 In the case of green tree ants, which create white football-sized nests in vegetation such as palms, they were being spurred on by recent plant growth.
green tree frog n. any of various green arboreal frogs of the families Hylidae and Rhacophoridae; spec. Hyla arborea of central and southern Europe, H. cinerea of North America, and Litoria caerulea of Australia.
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1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 101 This day we first took notice of the little green Tree-Frogs.]
1739 Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 348 Rana viridis arborea. The green Tree Frog. These Frogs are always found sticking to the under Sides of Leaves of Trees.
1885 J. G. Wood Pop. Nat. Hist. 522 The best known species is the common green tree-frog of Europe, now so familiar from its frequent introduction into fern-cases and terrestrial vivaria.
1990 Physiol. Zool. 63 1043 The green tree frog, Litoria caerulea, is distributed widely in Australia.
2006 C. Roots Hibernation iii. 52 European Tree Frog (Hyla arborea)... It is also called the common tree frog and the green tree frog.
green turtle n. a large herbivorous sea turtle, Chelonia mydas (family Cheloniidae), found in all tropical and subtropical seas and noted for its green-coloured fat.The green turtle is much valued as a source of food.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Cheloniidae > member of genus Chelonia (green-turtle)
green turtle1657
green turtle1657
calipee1796
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 4 There is a third kind, called the Green Turtle,..far excelling the other two, in wholesomnesse, and Rarenesse of taste.
1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 63 Four species of turtle are found on the shores of this island—the green-turtle, the hawk's-bill,..the logger-head, and the land-tortoise.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 3/1 The sea round about the West Indies is the happiest hunting-ground for green turtle.
1952 E. Hemingway Old Man & Sea (1986) 36 He loved green turtles and hawk-bills with their elegance and speed.
2005 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 9/2 There are fewer than a million green turtles in the Caribbean today.
greenwing n. North American (more fully greenwing teal) the green-winged teal, Anas crecca; cf. blue-wing n. at blue adj. and n. Compounds 1b(a).
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas crecca (teal)
teal1314
Colman's birda1387
sarcellea1387
cercelle1387
greenwing1813
teal-duck1845
jay-teal1885
1800 Med. Repository 3 182 Blue and green wing teal (anas querquedula).]
1813 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. (ed. 2) III. 124 (table) Blue wing Teal, Anas discors? Green wing Teal, Anas—.
1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 142 Of the two Teals, the green wing is the larger; both are very fine for the table.
1895 Outing Dec. 212/1 They were soon joined by more green-wings.
1993 Outdoor Canada May 12/3 About 85 percent of the ducks here are bluewing teal, with a smattering of northern shovellers, wood ducks, ruddies and the odd greenwing teal.
green woodpecker n. a large Eurasian woodpecker, Picus viridis, which has green upperparts, a red crown, and a loud laughing call, and feeds chiefly on ants on the ground.
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1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 86 Picus viridis..the Hickwall, Witwall, or Green-Wood-pecker.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 249 The Green Wood-spite or Wood-pecker is called the Rain-Fowl in some parts of the country.
1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds II. 136 The Green Woodpecker..[is] said to be vociferous when rain is impending.
1941 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 5 July in War Diaries (2001) 169 Discovered wryneck nesting in green woodpecker nesting box.
2003 Org. Gardening Sept. 28/2 Green woodpeckers hoover up ants on the lawn.
(c) In names of plants and fruits (often translating the scientific Latin epithet viridis). See also greengage n. 1, greenheart n., green sauce n. 2, etc.
green alder n. a shrubby alder, Alnus viridis, common in rocky or mountainous areas in north temperate regions.Several subspecies of A. viridis exist; these were formerly (and are sometimes still) treated as separate species.
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1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 408 Green alder..has a range similar to that of the western birch, and attains a similar size toward the west.
1910 E. A. N. Arber Plant Life in Alpine Switzerland ix. 234 The Green Alder has no very striking peculiarities. It resembles the Alders of the plains, except that it is rather dwarfed in stature.
2007 K. Junker Gardening with Woodland Plants iv. 85 The green alder from central Europe is shrublike with tall, erect stems reminiscent of a hazel. Perfect for underplanting.
green arrow n. [ < green adj. + alteration of yarrow n.] English regional (now rare) the common Eurasian yarrow, Achillea millefolium.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > traffic lights > specific
red light1790
green arrow1875
amber light1896
yellow1900
yellow light1920
amber1929
stop light1930
stop sign1934
filter1939
red1940
green1962
1875 Gardeners' Chron. 7 Aug. 161/3 Green 'arrow, Green 'arrow, you bears a white blow.
1898 H. R. Haggard in Longman's Mag. Oct. 500 I found the wildflower called Green-arrow in bloom.
1909 G. J. Drews Unfired Food 306 Yarrow is also called milfoil, green arrow, thousand leaf, carpenters grass, bloodwort, old man's pepper and soldier's woundwort.
green ash n. North American a North American ash tree, Fraxinus pennsylvanica of eastern and central areas.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun]
ashc700
fraynec1325
wood-browna1400
wild ash1552
white ash1578
manna tree1665
black ash1673
white ash1683
water ash1709
manna ash1715
hoop-ash1763
red ash1773
shrew-ash1776
blue ash1783
swamp ash1794
weeping ash1807
green ash1810
cockscomb ash1850
Oregon ash1857
1810 F. A. Michaux Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 34 F[raxinus] concolor. Green ash (Frêne vert), nom donné par moi à cette espèce, qui n'en a aucun dans les pays où elle croît.
1882 Garden 23 Sept. 273/1 The green Ash..so called from the colour of the young shoots.
1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 805 It has been supposed that the so-called Red ash and Green ash could be told apart by the velvety twigs of the former and the smooth ones of the latter.
2008 Montana Mag. Mar. 70/2 Cottonwoods and green ash grow in the bottoms of the larger valleys.
green bean n. any bean plant cultivated for its edible pods rather than for its seeds, esp. the French bean, Phaseolus vulgaris; the pod or beans of such a plant, esp. of the French bean (usually in plural).
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1526 Grete Herball ccccxcxiii. sig. Diii For the grene chyches ben lyke in vertue and operacyon to grene benes and the dry to the dry but not in al.
1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World I. 40 My Banquet sometimes was green Beans and Peason, Nuts, Pears, Plumbs, Apples, which were now in season.
1716 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 4) II. xiii. i. 129 In gathering green Beans for the Table, it is the best way to cut them off with a Knife.
1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xli. 232 ‘Snaps’ are young green beans.
1874 F. Burr Field & Garden Veg. Amer. viii. 408 Early plantings..yielded pods for stringing in about ten weeks, green beans in twelve or thirteen weeks.
1969 S. G. Harrison et al. Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 36/1 The Scarlet Runner is by far the most popular green bean in Britain.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Jan. d7/3 Repeated exposure to green beans..increased the babies' consumption of this vegetable whether they were breast-fed or formula-fed.
† green bind n. Obsolete = green bine n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant
hop1538
hop-vine1707
bine1732
red bine1763
Golding1794
whitebine1798
green bind1805
hop-plant1817
grape hop1838
fuggle1898
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 744 There is only one species of this plant in cultivation, but which has several varieties, as the red-bind, the green-bind, the white-bind.
1835 Penny Mag. Nov. 453/2 The green-bind sort, though less hardy than the preceding, is a very productive bearer.
1863 Our Children's Mag. Oct. 147 Sometimes they are distinguished by the colour of the bind or stem... There is the red bind, the green bind, the white bind, and some others.
green bine n. now rare a variety of the common hop, Humulus lupus, having a green bine.
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1857 Rep. Sel. Comm. on Hop Duties 23 Liability of the white bine hop and of the green bine also to blight.
1889 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 31 Aug. 627/2 The White and Green Bine hops are grown in Surrey, Hants, and Worcestershire.
1983 F. R. Sanderson & H. C. Smith in G. S. Wratt & H. C. Smith Plant Breeding in N.Z. xxxiv. 289/2 A breeding programme was commenced in 1951 to try to combine the resistance of the Old English variety Fuggle (Green Bine), with the high yield and quality of Californian Late Cluster.
greenbriar n. North American any of various climbing plants of the genus Smilax.
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c1785 S. Pears in Dict. Americanisms (1951) II. 743/1 We had not anything to live on..except..greenbrier berreys.
1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 302 The Green Briar, or Round-leaved Smilax,..is common along fences.
1903 G. F. Thompson Man. Angora Goat Raising 74 The greenbrier..is an enemy to goat raising; not that it is poisonous, but because of its physical character.
2008 Copley News Service (Nexis) 6 June I have determined that I have a thorny shrub or vine that is called greenbrier.
green broom n. now rare any of several types of broom (broom n. 1); esp. the common broom, Cytisus scoparius, of northwestern Europe.The identity of the plant in the early quots. is uncertain.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > broom and allies > [noun]
broomc1000
genistaa1398
junipera1425
broom-treea1450
cytisus1548
French broom1548
besom-weed1578
green broom?1578
scorpion-thorn1760
retama1764
retem1777
broom-wood1810
scorpion1840
scorpion plant1866
ginestra1884
scorpion-broom1884
tree lucerne1933
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 26 Euery wight with hiz blu buckeram brydelace vpon a braunch of green broom (cauz rozemary iz skant thear).
1651 D. Border Πολυϕαρμακος και Χυμιστης clxix. 107 Take tops of green Broom a reasonable quantity.
1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) Cytiso-genista, Common (or Green) Broom.
1895 Meehan's Monthly Nov. 203/1 Both on mountain and moorland in Great Britain the comely and modest green broom has had ‘a local habitation and a name’, from time immemorial.
1921 Amer. Naturalist 27 31 The last mentioned plant [sc. Cytisus scoparius] is also known as ‘Scotch broom’, ‘green broom’ and ‘besom’.
green cardamom n. seed capsules of cardamom ( Elettaria cardamomum) that have not been bleached during processing, and have a greener colour and stronger flavour than bleached seed capsules; a seed capsule of this kind.
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1904 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 76 586 The principal virtue of the green cardamom is said to be that it is much sweeter and stronger in flavor than the bleached quality.
1995 C. Panjabi Great Curries India 148 In the same pan..add the garlic, green cardamoms, cinnamon.
2011 India Internat. Centre Q. 37 333 The traditional finale to a meal in Kashmir is kahwa—brewed once again with green tea in a samovar and laced with green cardamom seeds and slivers of almonds.
green dragon n. either of two arums (family Araceae), †(a) the European dragon arum, Dracunculus vulgaris (also green dragon arum); cf. dragon n.1 14; (now rare); (b) the North American plant Arisaema dracontium, which has a pale green flower; also called dragon root.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Araceae (wake-robin and allies) > [noun]
dragonsc1000
cuckoo-pintlea1400
yekestersea1400
aaron?c1425
calf's-footc1450
cuckoo-spitc1450
rampa1500
priest's hood1526
wake-robin1530
green dragon1538
arum1551
cuckoo-pint1551
dragonwort1565
priest's pintle1578
tarragon1591
starch root1596
friar's cowl1597
friar's-hood1597
starchwort1597
dragon serpentine1598
dragon's-herb1600
small dragonwort1674
dumb cane1696
skunk weed1735
polecat weed1743
lords and ladies1755
mucka-mucka1769
skunk cabbage1778
bloody man's finger1787
green dragon1789
swamp-cabbage1792
priest in the pulpit1837
orontiad1846
arad1853
cows and calves1853
bulls and cows1863
skunk cabbage1869
aroid1876
Adam and Eve1877
stallion1878
cunjevoi1889
1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis III. 315 Short-sheath'd Arum, or Green Dragon.
1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 146 Arum..dracontium..green dragon.
1883 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden 37/1 Arum Dracontium (Green Dragon Arum) grows abundantly in the moist and swampy districts of Virginia and New England.
1939 A. H. Wood Grow them Indoors 82 Another aroid, sometimes grown in the house but more often out of doors, is the dragon arum or green-dragon (Dracunculus vulgaris).
2000 Boston Globe (Nexis) 7 Sept. g1 There are many other arisaemas that have recently been embraced by adventurous shade gardeners, including the native green dragon.
† green endive n. Obsolete any of several similar wild lettuces with bitter-tasting leaves, esp. prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola, and L. virosa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > wild lettuce
wriðela1325
wild lettuce1382
green endive1548
horse-thistle1597
milkweed1785
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.vijv The thyrde sorte is called in latin Lactuca syluestris, in englishe grene Endyue, the Poticaries haue longe abused thys herbe for right Endyue.
1675 Accomplish'd Lady's Delight 269 Boyl them in good Mutton-Broath, with Mace, a Faggot of sweet Herbs, Sage, Spinage, Marygold-leaves and Flowers, white or green Endive, Burrage, Bugloss, Parsley, and Sorrel.
1846 G. Pépé Mem. Gen. Pépé I. viii. 129 Excessive hunger made me eat with avidity the green endive which grows there to some height.
green gram n. the mung bean, Vigna radiata.
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1813 Hansard Commons 14 Apr. 871–2 (table) 3 [measures]..of Doll and Green Gram.
1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xv. 457 (heading) Phaseolus radiatus is the ‘mung’ or ‘green gram’ of India.
2008 L. Kaplan in C. M. du Bois et al. World of Soy i. 39 Vigna radiata, the mung bean or green gram, is well known in the West as the most important source of bean sprouts.
† green fillet n. Obsolete rare a kind of apple used for making cider.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pome-paradise1601
French pippin1629
gillyflower1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
calville1691
passe-pomme1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
Sturmer Pippin1831
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Macoun1924
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1662 J. Beale in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) I. 149 White musts of divers kinds, red cheekt and red-streakt musts of several kinds, green musts, called also green fillet, and blue spotted: why, I say, we should prefer them for cider before table-fruit.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 587 Green Cider..made of a green fillet, as they called it, where they had other kinds of fillets. This which I commend..was a small, round, and green Apple full of black spots.
green hawthorn n. North American a hawthorn, Crataegus viridis, of the south-eastern United States, commonly grown in gardens as an ornamental.
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1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Plants N. Amer. in tr. J. B. Bossu Trav. Louisiana II. 39 Crategus viridis..Hawthorn, green.
1832 G. Don Gen. Syst. Gardening & Bot. II. 601/1 C. viridis... Native of Carolina. Perhaps a variety of C. coccinea. Green Hawthorn.
1909 Proc. Ohio State Acad. 5 155 Crataegus viridis L. Green Hawthorn. A small tree often without thorns. Fruit persisting into the winter.
2004 J. Meyer Tree Bk. ii. 116/2 After a show of bronze, red, and gold fall foliage, the green hawthorn..develops orange-red fruits that resemble rose hips.
green hellebore n. either of two poisonous plants with green flowers, a stemless hellebore, Helleborus viridis, and Indian poke, Veratrum viride.
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1737 J. Armstrong Synopsis Hist. & Cure Venereal Dis. 325 Let a great many deep Pits be dug about their Roots, and filled with great Quantities of green Hellebore Root.]
1774 J. Hill Veg. Syst. XXIV. 12 Green Hellebore... Helleborus Viridis.
1872 H. Watts Dict. Chem. VI. 695 Helleboreïn is much more abundant in black than in green hellebore.
1917 H. C. Long Plants Poisonous to Livestock ii. 13 Two poisonous species of hellebore may on occasion be taken by livestock, though rarely—Stinking Hellebore..and Green Hellebore.
1993 S. Marshall Nest of Magpies (1994) xvii. 144 There were clumps of green hellebore, spindly crocuses, windflowers and yellow aconites.
green laver n. = sea-lettuce n.; cf. green sloke n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > sea-lettuce
oyster-green1597
sea-lettuce1668
Ulva1706
green laver1762
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > seaweed > [noun]
slawkc1450
henware1682
dulse1698
pepper dulse1724
tangle1724
slokan1758
green laver1762
sloke1777
carrageen1830
Irish moss1830
parengo1844
kombu1884
wakame1950
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 477 Anglis, Green Laver, or Oyster Green.
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 941 The green laver which, stewed with lemon juice, is so much esteemed in England, is the Ulva lactuca.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Slauke, the seaweed green laver, Ulva lactuca and U. latissima.
1922 W. S. Furneaux Sea Shore 354 It [sc. Ulva latissima] is known as the Green Laver, and is used as food in districts where the true laver (Porphyra) is not to be obtained.
1998 BBC Good Food Sept. 126/4 In Wales, laver is boiled to a purée and coated with oatmeal to make laverbread. Fresh sea lettuce (green laver) is sold in some supermarkets and can be used in soups or salads.
green milkweed n. a North American milkweed, Asclepias (formerly Acerates) viridiflora, with green flowers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Asclepiadaceae (milk-weed and allies) > [noun]
swallowwort1548
Asclepias1578
silken cicely1597
silkweed1784
tame-poison1785
milkweed1814
green milkweed1829
Hoodia1830
asclepiad1859
poke milkweed1890
1829 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 90 [Acerates] viridiflora... Green milkweed.
1921 H. M. Hall & F. L. Long Rubber-content N. Amer. Plants vi. 39 Another species, the green milkweed (A[cerates] viridiflora), with much more copious foliage, is reported upon.
2000 Jrnl. Torrey Bot. Soc. 127 184/2 On the next summit north the group found Asclepias verticillata (whorled milkweed) in flower bud and A. viridiflora (green milkweed).
green mint n. spearmint, Mentha spicata (formerly M. viridis).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > mint or spearmint
minteOE
spearmint1562
brown mint1597
mackerel mint1597
green mint1770
pudina1842
spire mint1863
1770 J. Hill Veg. Syst. XVII. 52 (heading) Green Mint... Mentha Viridis.
1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica vi. 199 The most used of them are, the Crisped Mint, Mentha crispa, Lin.; the Green Mint, M. Viridis,..the Elegant Mint, M. gentilis, Lin.
1912 M. G. Kains Culinary Herbs 105 The specific name means green, hence the common name, green mint, often applied to it [sc. spearmint].
1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food xv. 533 Cultivated mint is usually ‘peppermint’ (for pharmacy and food flavourings) or spearmint (also known as green mint and garden mint), which is milder.
† green mustard n. Obsolete dittander (broad-leaved pepperwort), Lepidium latifolium.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress
cressa700
pepperworta1500
dittany1548
sciatica cress1562
way-cresses1562
churl's cress1578
churl's mustard1578
dittander1578
cockweed1585
colt1585
green mustard1597
peasant's mustard1597
sciatica grass1597
scar-wort1657
yellow-seed1818
money tree1934
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Greene Mustard is Dittander.
1776 B. Clermont tr. Professed Cook (ed. 3) 514 Under the name of Ravigotte, or relishing Herbs, are Taragon, Chervil, Burnet, Garden-cresses, Civet, and green Mustard.
green onion n. a scallion, spring onion, or other member of the genus Allium which does not form, or has not yet formed, a full-sized bulb; an onion of this type used as a vegetable.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > onion > other types of onion
hollekec1000
chibol1362
scallion1393
oniona1398
chesbollc1410
oinet?1440
red onionc1450
sybow1574
green onion1577
Strasbourg onion1629
cibol1632
Portugal onion1647
Spanish onion1706
Welsh onion1731
spring onion1758
Reading1784
rareripe1788
yellow onion1816
onionet1820
potato onion1822
tripoli1822
escalion1847
stone-leek1861
Egyptian onion1880
ramp1885
multiplier1907
ramps1939
Vidalia1969
tree onion-
1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth 94 The greene Onion applyed with Uineger, doth helpe the bitte of a madde dog within three days.
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 223 They who love young green Onions or sives, or other savory Herbs, or Pepper, may use them also in the same manner, when they are in season.
1762 W. Gelleroy London Cook vii. 159 Put into your stewpan green onions, pared and cut small, with a little melted bacon.
1876 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) I. 40/2 The rock Onion, or Stone Leek..never forms a bulb like the common Onion... It is sometimes sown to furnish small green onions for spring salads.
2002 C. C. Jones Year Russ. Feasts (2003) 174 A large platter of pickled vegetables—green onions, garlic, peppers and cabbage.
green pea n. a pea harvested and eaten while still green, soft, and unripe; a garden pea; usually in plural.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > green peas
green pease?c1425
codlings?c1640
green pea1653
1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 3 About the bignesse of a green Pea.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. vi. iii. 159 Green Peas, that were sown in Banks or Borders in October, now begin to recompense our Pains.
1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 ii. 66 He indulged himself and madam with green peas at five shillings a quart.
1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xi. 174 His owner drove a trade in..string-beans, green peas, and new potatoes.
1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xii. 104 There has been a gradual increase in the cultivation of green peas for picking green.
2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 25 Oct. 7 The green peas we eat are the immature seeds of the plant. They are simply peas picked unripe.
green pease n. now rare = green pea n.; (also) †a particular variety of pea (obsolete).In later use only as unmarked plural or as a mass noun.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > green peas
green pease?c1425
codlings?c1640
green pea1653
?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 470 Take grene pesen clene washen, and let hom boyle awhile over the fire.
?a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 92 Grene pese, with veneson.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 133 There are three sorts of Pease..the white-Pease, the gray-Pease, and the greene-Pease. The two first are vsually eaten greene before they be ripe.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 191 Scarce have you tasted green pease or strawberries, before they are out of season.
1903 Overland Monthly Jan. 27/1 A dish of chicken glacé and green pease would have been delicious without its thin sauce of boiled fish.
1972 Times 21 Dec. 11/5 Leonard Rossiter took to the part of a military gent like a duck to green pease.
green rose n. a variety of the China rose, Rosa chinensis ‘Viridiflora’, in which the petals are transformed into leaf-like structures giving the appearance of a green flower (cf. phyllody n. 1).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush
summer rosea1456
French rose1538
damask rose?a1547
musk rose1559
province1562
winter rose1577
Austrian brier1590
rose of Provence1597
velvet rose1597
damasine-rose1607
Provence rose1614
blush-rose1629
maiden's blush1648
monthly rose tree1664
Provinsa1678
York and Lancaster rose1688
cinnamon rose1699
muscat rose1707
cabbage rose1727
China-rose1731
old-fashioned rose1773
moss rose1777
swamp rose1785
alba1797
Cherokee rose1804
Macartney rose1811
shepherd's rose1818
multiflora1820
prairie rose1822
Boursault1826
Banksian rose1827
maiden rose1827
moss1829
Noisette1829
seven sisters rose1830
Dundee rambler1834
Banksia rose1835
Chickasaw rose1835
Bourbon1836
climbing rose1836
green rose1837
hybrid China1837
Jaune Desprez1837
Lamarque1837
perpetual1837
pillar rose1837
rambler1837
wax rose1837
rugosa1840
China1844
Manetti1846
Banksian1847
remontant1847
gallica1848
hybrid perpetual1848
Persian Yellow1848
pole rose1848
monthly1849
tea rose1850
quarter sessions rose1851
Gloire de Dijon1854
Jacqueminot1857
Maréchal Niel1864
primrose1864
jack1867
La France1868
tea1869
Ramanas rose1876
Japanese rose1883
polyantha1883
old rose1885
American Beauty1887
hybrid tea1890
Japan rose1895
roselet1896
floribunda1898
Zéphirine Drouhin1901
Penzance briar1902
Dorothy Perkins1903
sweetheart1905
wichuraiana1907
mermaid1918
species rose1930
sweetheart rose1936
peace1944
shrub rose1948
1837 T. Rivers Rose Amateur's Guide i. 31 Viridis is the far-famed green rose of France, which has several times been brought to this country and sold as a great rarity.
1911 E. Willmott Genus Rosa I. 80 The curious Green Rose belongs to this section [sc. chinensis]. It is in no way beautiful, but is remarkable from having all its floral organs transformed into leaves.
1998 R. C. Reddell Rose Bible iii. 39/1 Also known as the ‘Green Rose’, ‘Viridiflora’ produces ‘blooms’ that aren't really booms at all but rather masses of sepals.
green sloke n. Scottish (now rare) = green laver n.
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1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 970 [Ulva lactuca] Green Sloke. Scotis. In the sea frequent, growing upon stones and shells, &c.
1861 R. W. Fraser Seaside Divinity vii. 133 The Ulva latissima or green sloke, the colour of which is a full green, and of which the fronds are broadly egg-shaped or oblong.
1911 Notes & Queries 30 Dec. 533/1 The Ulva lactuca, from its being frequently attached to oysters, is called oyster green, lettuce-laver, and green sloke.
green withe n. now rare a climbing orchid of Jamaica, Vanilla claviculata.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > vanilla plants
green withe1696
vanilla1698
vanilla plant1753
vanilla1829
vanilla orchid1883
vanillon1884
1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 198 Green With.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica 373 There are two other plants in those colonies, that have almost wholly escaped my notice; the one is the green withe, which I take to be a species of Arum or Epidendrum.
1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus 91 The expressed juice of Green Withe, E[pidendrum] Claviculatum, in a dose of a table-spoonful is diuretic, cathartic, and vermifuge.
1910 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica I. 17 V. claviculata... Greenwithe. On shrubs and trees, growing on limestone rocks.
† greenwort n. Obsolete rare the plant sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > sneezewort
hulworta1300
pellitory1544
Ptarmica1597
sneezewort1597
sneezing-wort1611
goose-tongue1738
greenwort1854
1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers iii. 241 The greenwort, or Achillea ptarmica.
1860 T. Miller Common Wayside Flowers 143 Amongst these is the greenwort, readily distinguished by its white disc and lance-shaped leaves, which are sharp cut at the edges.
(d) In names of chemical and mineral substances. See also greensand n., green schist n., greenstone n.
green bice n. see bice n. 2.
green brass n. now rare verdigris.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > verdigris
verdigris1300
green brassa1398
Spanish green1611
aerugo1664
verdigris water1668
verd-antiquea1835
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxxviii. 1086 [Vinegar] freteþ metalles and gendreþ þerof dyuers colours as serusa of leed, greene bras of copur, and lazurium of siluer.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 287 Grien Bras made in pouder. iii. onces.
1776 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Boerhaave's Aphorisms (new ed.) XIV. 384 Smooth worms..thrown into an infusion of green brass, soon made very observable motions and contortions.
2003 Sewanee Rev. 111 595 Fleet Street, when I knew it, was rich in clocks, splendid and plain, sheathed in green brass and black iron.
green copperas n. see copperas n. 1b.
green diallage n. [after French diallage verte ( R. J. Haüy Traité de minéral. (1801) III. 126)] now rare a green variety of pyroxene.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > inosilicates single chain > [noun] > pyroxene > clinopyroxenes > augite
augite1802
green diallage1805
bronzite1816
maclureite1822
schillerite1863
titanaugite1907
1805 S. Weston Werneria I. 83 The green diallage is very compact.
1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 307 Coccolite... Green diallage, a grass-green variety, appears either massive or crystallised.
1920 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 28 213 His saussurite is altered feldspar, the jade amphibole, and the smaragdite probably green diallage.
† green drops n. Obsolete rare a solution of corrosive sublimate containing a green dye.
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1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Green drops, a coloured solution of corrosive sublimate.
green earth n. any of various greenish, clayey materials; spec. †(a) crude borax (obsolete); (b) the pigment terre verte; (c) Mineralogy the mineral glauconite.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > borates > [noun] > sodium borate
boraxc1386
chrysocoll1590
chrysocolla1600
altincar1632
green earth1634
tincal1635
tincalconite1892
kernite1927
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > specific pigments
motey1353
green earth1634
terre-verte1658
Terra Sienna1760
Siena1787
gamboge yellow1807
zinc white1847
zinc-powder1881
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > phyllosilicate > [noun] > mica > glauconite
green earth1794
glauconite1836
greensand1873
1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) II. xxxiii. v. 470 Chrysocolla, called otherwise Borax, or green earth, is found in those pits and mines that are digged for gold.
1695 J. Dryden tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 173 Terre Verte (or green Earth) is light; 'tis a mean betwixt yellow Oker and Ultramarine.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost II. vii. 316 One kind of it [sc. a mineral] is called Borax, or Green Earth, which the Goldsmiths solder with.
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 196 Green Earth... Found generally in lumps in the cavities of other stones, or externally investing them.
1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 212 Green Earth is common, lining the cavities in amygdaloid throughout the basaltic range.
1914 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1913 65 595 A few feet of yellowish tuff conglomerate, consisting of rolled fragments of a lighter color, with much green earth in minute particles.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 31 Mar. 12/4 There was Green Earth in the flesh tones, which was used rarely by other Dutch artists but was regularly found in Vermeer.
green iron ore n. †(a) a form of garnet (obsolete); (b) = dufrenite n. (now rare).
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > phosphates > [noun] > phosphates of iron
siderite1784
siderites1794
green iron ore1804
scorodite1823
vivianite1823
dufrenite1837
melanchlor1854
neoctese1854
globosite1868
strengite1881
koninckite1885
phosphosiderite1890
tinticite1946
laubmannite1949
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > nesosilicates > [noun] > garnet
garneta1350
granatea1400
green iron ore1804
hydrogarnet1941
1804 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. I. 72 In some countries it [sc. common garnet] is named green iron ore.
1825 R. T. Gore tr. J. F. Blumenbach Man. Elements Nat. Hist. xii. 386 Green Iron Ore. Ger. Grün Eisenerde. Generally canary-green; earthy... Its composition not yet completely known.
1859 J. P. Lesley Iron Manufacturer's Guide ii. 295 Dufrenite,..green iron ore is a silky radiated fibrous subtranslucent drusy ore, 63 peroxide iron, 28 phosphoric acid, 9 water.
1939 L. de Vries German-Eng. Sci. Dict. Grüneisenstein, green iron ore.
† green lead ore n. Obsolete a green ore of lead; esp. pyromorphite or mimetite.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > phosphates > [noun] > chlorophosphate of lead
green lead ore1728
pyromorphite1814
nuissierite1841
the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > lead ore > types of
fell1653
steel-ore1661
bing ore (or simply bing)1686
white lead orea1728
green lead ore1728
blanch1747
red lead of Siberia1788
red lead ore1788
hedyphane1832
cerussite1850
silver lead1860
1728 J. Woodward Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils 28 Green Lead-Ore concreted, in a thin Plate to a reddish Stone, being part of one side of the Vein.
1814 T. Allan Mineral. Nomencl. 29 Brown and green lead ore..pyromorphit.
1854 J. D. Whitney Metallic Wealth U.S. 357 Mimetene, Green Lead Ore. A mineral resembling pyromorphite..except that it contains arsenic acid instead of phosphoric.
green marble n. marble coloured green, esp. by serpentine; (hence) serpentine; cf. verd-antique n. 1a.
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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Charistium, a grene marble.
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 202 I observ'd also several Columns of Pophyry and spotted Green Marble.
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 366 Green marble..is also called sometimes serpentine marble, because in fact the green parts belong to the rock called serpentine.
1929 G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. iv. 280 The green marble, popularly called verd-antique, is an impure serpentinous rock.
1983 O. Andrews Living Materials (1988) vi. 92 (table) Serpentine... Popularly called ‘green marble’.
2001 S. Strum Barcelona i. 24 New façades of cream-coloured stone and green marble wrap the street face, housing the management offices behind.
† green mineral n. Obsolete rare = malachite n. 1.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > carbonates > [noun] > malachite
malachitea1398
chrysocoll1590
chrysocolla1600
mountain green1728
green mineral1844
1844 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. (ed. 2) Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
green vitriol n. now chiefly historical crystalline ferrous sulphate, a pale blue-green salt formed by the action of sulphuric acid on iron or certain of its compounds.Formula: FeSO4·7H2O.
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a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 14 Grene vitriol [v.r. vytreole, L. vitreolum, n. romanum: quod in gallico dicitur cuparosa], & he be do to a man of a drie complexioun engendrith fleisch; &..on moist compleccioun, he greueþ noȝut oonliche, but corrodith it.
1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing 62 Take greene vitriol, Sal Gemma, and Sal Armoniack..and seeth them in a quart of white wine.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 66 Green Vitriol hath a saltish and astringent taste.
1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 224/2 Ferrous sulphate is the salt so well known as green vitriol, and also in the impure state as copperas.
1993 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 52 88/2 The Assyrians perhaps did know of sulfuric acid,..since they had green vitriol..and red vitriol.
(e) In sense A. 13.
green activist n. an environmental activist.In quot. 1982: a person engaged in activism on behalf of the Green Party.
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1982 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. 17/1 Mr. Bodien, a Green activist, said the party seeks to alter the tone and the content of German politics.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Mar. 25/1 Doughty, a long-time green activist, is pleased with the development but does have some fears that it won't last.
2006 P. M. Handley King never Smiles xix. 366 Tha Dan was a tall dam that green activists disliked because it would damage scrub forest habitat.
green audit n. = environmental audit n. at environmental adj. Compounds.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > of environment
environmental audit1970
green audit1989
1989 Accountant Dec. 9/1 Green Audits to be comprehensive should cover..the pollution and other effects of the business on the environment.
1997 National Wildlife Aug. 56/1 Want to..learn how to conduct a ‘green audit’ of your workplace?
2001 Independent 17 Jan. i. 8/5 (heading) Ministers drop green audit for houses.
green burial n. a burial carried out in accordance with ecological principles; (also) the practice of burying the dead in this way.
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1991 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 15 Nov. Nick wants planners to give him the go-ahead for green burials in a memorial woodland. Hardwood and brass-handled coffins will be replaced by bio-degradable caskets, while memorial trees will mark the burial plots instead of headstones.
2005 Church Times 18 Mar. 18/2 Cremation, with its damage to the environment, was beginning to give way to woodland burial, also known as green burial or natural burial.
2009 G. Adams Your Legacy of Love 192 For those seeking an environmentally-friendly option, the best solution is a green burial.
green chemistry n. (an approach to) applied chemistry whose aim is to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of environmentally harmful substances in industrial processes, in agriculture, and in the life cycles of products.
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1989 New Scientist 25 Nov. 37/3 The development of the [biodegradable] plastic is one of several projects in a ‘green chemistry’ programme.
1999 Nature 6 May 33/2 The tools of green chemistry are alternative feedstocks, solvents and reagents, and catalytic versus stoichoiometric processes.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Sept. b4/1 In California, which has led the nation in passing ‘green chemistry’ laws, an influential Democrat..said he would press for mandatory disclosure [of ingredients on all product labels].
green consumerism n. the practice of purchasing products which are regarded as environmentally responsible; environmentally conscious consumerism.
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1988 Guardian 8 Sept. 16/6 The first category will be attracted to Green consumerism... Your last category then has no choice but to purchase the ecologically sound product since that's all there is.
1993 E. Harland Eco-renovation iv. 175 The rise of ‘green consumerism’ has shown that together we have an economic power to affect ecological change.
2005 T. Lang & Y. Gabriel in R. Harrison et al. Ethical Consumer iii. 49 By the early twenty-first century, environmentalism had fragmented, with green consumerism a niche in the mainstream.
green economy n. an economy based on or guided by environmentalist principles; (also) the economic sector devoted to products and services which are intended to minimize or remediate harm to the environment.In quot. 1986: an economy governed by the principles of the Green Party.
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1986 Theory & Society 15 887 Nowhere does one find much in the way of institutional specifics—that is, what an alternative Green economy would look like.
1988 Guardian 6 Jan. 11/6 Its main purpose is to identify commercial and career opportunities in the green economy.
1996 T. Athanasiou Divided Planet v. 246 Bioplastics will almost certainly play a major role in the elaboration of a future green economy.
2009 New Yorker 12 Jan. 27/3 Nor is it clear that a green economy would be any better at providing work for the chronically unemployed.
green electricity n. electricity generated in an environmentally responsible manner.
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1989 Economist 2 Dec. 19 (heading) Green electricity.
1993 Ann. Rep. & Accts. (Thames Water plc) 14/3 The incinerators will..generate substantial amounts of green electricity.
2002 Agenda 52 15/1 Green electricity is another means whereby energy needs may be met without polluting the environment.
green energy n. renewable energy; energy produced or harnessed in an environmentally responsible manner.
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1980 Guardian 3 Apr. 8/7 The most striking innovation will be the financing of ‘green’ energy—tidal, solar, and geothermic power.
1999 N.Y. Times 6 Dec. c5/3 Now it's green energy: power derived from windmills, solar panels, anything that does not pollute the air.
2008 D. Frum Comeback 120 Environmental groups have always taken care to promise Americans that green energy will be cheap energy.
green fuel n. (a type of) fuel, esp. biofuel, which is regarded as less harmful to the environment than conventional fuels.
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1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 23 July b3/1 The most highly publicized of the nations that have ventured into ‘green’ fuel is Brazil.
1994 Guardian 26 Oct. 24/3 The United Kingdom Petroleum Association..said it believed the industry's move towards ‘green fuel’ since the late 1980s was justified.
2008 G. Walker & D. King Hot Topic 111 One way to provide a liquid fuel without damaging the atmosphere would be to make new green fuels that use carbon-neutral biomass as a feedstuff.
green marketing n. marketing based on the (supposed) environmentally beneficial qualities of a product, company, etc.
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society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling method or technique > types of
branding1913
cross-selling1919
mass marketing1920
supermarketing1940
hard sell1945
market testing1947
sales drive1951
soft sell1953
rack-jobbing1954
switch selling1960
cold selling1961
telesales1962
telemarketing1963
loss-leading1964
test-marketing1964
pyramid selling1965
inertia selling1968
overselling1968
bundling1969
oversell1969
rack job1969
bounceback1970
party plan1973
sale-leaseback1973
up-marketing1975
sellathon1976
upselling1977
cold calling1978
cold call1980
network marketing1981
ambush marketing1987
green marketing1988
relationship marketing1988
freemium1994
e-tailing1995
1988 Marketing 28 July 15/2 There is little way of knowing..whether ‘green marketing’ is something which applies to every brand, or a relatively minor niche.
1991 N.Y. Times 26 Jan. a50/3 Their new approach is called ‘green marketing’ and in their efforts to portray themselves as environmentally concerned, some companies are making claims that do not stand up under close examination.
2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 392/2 Fuller takes green marketing well beyond feel-good sales strategies to show how companies are reinvigorating and reinventing themselves around ecological principles.
green-minded adj. concerned with environmental issues.
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1984 Economist 20 Oct. 18/2 The West German government, with green-minded voters at its heels, is demanding that all cars be fitted with three-way converters.
1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 17 May 55/1 The gas business is also counting on help from the green-minded Clinton administration.
2008 M. A. Hood Rivertime 237 Siwa is being promoted as an eco-friendly place for the green-minded tourist.
green movement n. an environmentalist political or social movement.
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1977 Guardian 19 Apr. 13/1 The posters are green. ‘It's a good colour for a green movement.’
1989 Green Mag. Oct. 93/3 The recent summer school focused on Environmental Policy and the Green Movement in Britain and dealt with debates ranging from food and health policy to the politics of eco-feminism.
2000 K. Leech in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 677/2 Socialist thinking and practice has been changed by the growth of the ‘new social movements’ such as feminism and green movements.
Green Party n. any of various environmentalist political parties.Such parties arose in Europe in the early 1970s, since when they have achieved a certain amount of electoral success, particularly in Germany. The Green Party in Britain was founded in 1973 as the Ecology Party, changing its name in 1985.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > types of party generally (in various countries)
country party1648
war-party1798
Conservative Party1830
Progressive Party1830
national party1847
Labour Party1850
Nationalist Party1884
Social Credit1935
Third Force1936
third force1956
demandeur1966
People's Power1974
Green Party1977
1977 Undercurrents June 38/1 What of local elections in France, and, most importantly, the ‘Green’ party in Paris?
1989 B. J. Woodruffe in P. Cloke Rural Land-use Planning in Developed Nations v. 104 The rapid emergence and political success of the Green Party (die Grünen ) in the 1983 election when it captured 27 seats in the Bundestag.
2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Sept. c4/5 The so-called ecotax on fuel, which the Green Party pushed for in 1998.
green tech n. = green technology n.
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1991 Rolling Stone 11 July 118 (title) Green tech. New gadgets promise users an eco-conscious hot time.
2007 P. W. Bernstein & A. Swan All Money in World 191 Green tech..could be the largest economic opportunity of the twenty-first century.
green technology n. environmentally beneficial technology, esp. as applied to mitigating or remediating the effects of human activity on the environment; (also) an instance of this.
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1983 H. Rothman Energy from Alcohol viii. 150 Most Third World countries lack the capacity to develop a ‘green technology’ and most industrialized countries lack incentive.
1989 Guardian 21 Jan. 3/1 A piece of pioneering ‘green’ technology to warm the Prime Minister's heart has been rescued from oblivion.
2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 June viii. 11/1 This is a street-ready hydrogen car with license plates and no rough edges, a test bed for green technology worth well over $1 million.
C2. Compounds of the noun.
a. attributive.
(a) With the sense ‘of or relating to vegetables’. Cf. sense B. 6d, and greengrocer n.
green market n. [compare Dutch groenmarkt (1598), German Grünmarkt]
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1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 115 They slue 2 Souldiers in the greene market.
1795 W. MacRitchie Diary 25 July (1897) 81 Get up at five a.m., and go..to see the Green-market at Covent Garden.
1857 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold i. ii. 6 The costermonger..can no longer drive his trade at the green-markets.
1991 Martha Stewart Living Sept. 28/1 Green markets are springing up all over the country, giving us fresher and more varied ingredients to choose from.
green shop n.
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1742 New & Compl. Surv. London II. x. 830/1 At the North-east Corner of which, in a Green-Shop..in Pudding-Lane, is the following Inscription [etc.].
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxvii. 329 Who had subsisted..by the exercise of a mangle, and the keeping of a small green shop.
1992 D. E. Schoonover Khwan Niamut (Foreword) 11 We shopped for most of our prepared ingredients in Western-style supermarkets and specialty stores, buying..excellent lamb from the meat bazaar, and all fresh vegetables and herbs from the sabzi bazaar, or green shop.
green-stall n. now chiefly historical
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1743 Let. to Friend in Country: New Law Liquors 15 They were as common at the Green-Stalls as Potatoes.
1799 Founders French Republic I. 440 An aunt, who kept a green-stall [etc.].
1826 Lancet 9 Dec. 313/2 Pediments we no doubt have in abundance, rising in ridiculous grandeur over gin-shops and green-stalls.
1998 R. Trumbach Sex & Gender Revol. I. ii. v. 144 The mothers, left with many children, tried to support themselves by taking in washing or keeping a green-stall or a barrow.
(b) With the sense ‘of or relating to a putting (or occasionally bowling) green’ (see sense B. 3b and B. 3c).
greens committee n. (also green committee)
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1886 Times 7 Sept. 1/2 (advt.) For particulars apply to Green Committee, Royal and Ancient Golf Club, St. Andrews.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 May 12/4 The green committee did not consider that golf was a game likely to be benefited by inclusion in any programme of the Olympic Sports.
1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof vii. 230 The Greens Committee..have altered the Mossy Heath course.
2009 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 11 Mar. b8 Mr. Bonner was a member of the Philadelphia Seniors Golf Association and of the greens committee at Whitemarsh Valley.
green fee n. (also greens fee)
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1898 Times 21 Jan. 9/1 They will have the use of the ladies' club-house on payment of the usual green fees.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 20 Oct. 12/2 The committee suggested the charge of a green fee of one shilling a round on each player.
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird ii. 22 Greens fees eight dollars, power cart ten dollars, balls eighteen dollars fifty the dozen. And a complete set of clubs and bag... Four hundred dollars?
2006 Today's Golfer May 179/2 La Quinta, in Marbella, is an up-and-down parkland course amid the villa-clad hills a couple of miles inland. Green fees from £53.
greenkeeper n. (also greenskeeper)
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1685 T. Dangerfield Mem. 4 Receits..Of a Bowling-Green-keeper, 6s. 0.]
1705 J. S. City & Country Recreation viii. 183 At the Bowling-green sometimes this Artifice is used, more especially when..the Green keeper connives with them.
1730 S. Gale Tour through England in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 2 (1781) i. 47 Neat apartments..for servants and the green-keeper.
1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xii. 293 The green-keeper, engaged by the club at a certain annual salary to look after the ground.
1922 St. Nicholas May 681/1 Many times he would be just about finishing as the green-keeper arrived at the club to start his morning's work.
1992 Entrepreneur Mar. 69/1 My father..helped the greenskeeper pick up all the tees before they mowed.
2007 Golf Punk Oct. 141/1 It's an illustration of the challenge the greenkeepers face to keep the course in lush condition in such a thirsty landscape.
greenkeeping n. (also greenskeeping)
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1903 Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches 20 196 He was practical, too, in many ways beside green-keeping and club-making.
1933 Rotarian June 54/1 The professional [golf instructor] of today is no longer a club-maker and he rarely has very much to do with greenskeeping.
1961 Technology Oct. 257 Courses are also held in horticulture and greenkeeping.
2001 Times 4 May i. 31/4 Tournament administrators and the greenkeeping staff were united in their aim, to present the course as it was intended—in other words, a par-72 of 7,352 yards.
greensman n. (also greenman)
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1905 Westm. Gaz. 10 Feb. 3/1 The green-men use various liquids to bring the worms to the top, where they may be swept away and destroyed.
1928 Daily Express 3 Jan. 9/2 After the snow had fallen greenmen tried to clear it away by flooding the course with hosepipes.
1934 Times 14 July 8/3 At present there is, besides the ‘general’, only one of his green-men, Bill G., with a gloriously red face, a bright yellow jersey and cheerful grin.
2007 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 14 Jan. d5 Donald Hibma retired as a greensman from the Papago Golf course in Phoenix.
green putter n.
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1881 R. Forgan Golfer's Handbk. 11 The two varieties of Putters are used for very different purposes. They are the most ‘upright’ fellows in the set... The ‘Green Putter’..is employed on the putting-green... One function of the Driving-Putter..is to force a ball out of long grass... The Driving-Putter is fast falling into disuse.
1976 Sunday Gaz.-Mail (Charleston, W. Va.) 8 Aug. c6/1 Marshall University athletic director Joe McMullen has a collection of green putters which he gives out as prizes in different contests.
2008 Times (Nexis) 28 Oct. 71 Reichow's inventions include a green putter to help golfers to align shots and tinted glare-reducing contact lenses.
green record n. now rare
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1896 Times 2 Nov. 7/4 Munro, the club professional, also reduced the green record from 74 to 73.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 22 June 9/4 At the age of sixteen he..had won a scratch medal and broken a green-record.
(c) Instrumental.Some of the parasynthetic uses listed at Compounds 1a(a) may be construed as instrumental noun compounds.
green-embroidered adj.
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1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ix. liv. 184 Three goodly Mountains..(With green imbroydred Hangings beautify'de).
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 83 For oft these Valleys shift Their green-embroider'd Robe to fiery Brown.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xi. 170 I stood looking wistfully over the gate..at the inviting vista of the green embroidered path.
2007 Toronto Star (Nexis) 17 Feb. m26 Dunlop's office has a green-embroidered couch.
green-twined adj.
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1848 E. Cook Christmas Song Poor Man i. 6 A merry Christmas to ye all, Who sit beneath the green-twined roof.
1920 M. S. Cutting Some of us are Married 32 Their little Rill, robed and veiled in white and followed by her maidens, descending the green-twined stairway among the loving, familiar company of well-wishers.
b.
green-friendly adj. (originally) supportive of the Green Party; (now chiefly) environmentally friendly.
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1987 N.Y. Times 26 Feb. 4 Just as the once-disruptive Green Party has slowly worked its way into the fringes of the West German power structure, so the Green-friendly Taz [a newspaper] claims a growing clientele of lawyers, doctors and other professional people.
1988 Economist (Nexis) 10 Sept. 39 Environmentally sensitive areas, where farmers are paid to farm in a more green-friendly way.
2006 D. Kalla Rage Therapy (2007) 182 I'm green-friendly, Dr. Ashman. I don't own a car.
green-woman n. [compare Dutch groenwijf (1693)] now historical a female greengrocer.
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1754 J. Breues Fortune Hunters 75 The Green-woman's Bill..0 5 0.
1782 F. Burney Let. 28 Dec. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2012) V. 234 The Green Woman..sent her own errand girl.
1803 J. Oothout & P. Brasher 7 Feb. in Minutes Common Council of City of N.Y. (1917) III. 202 The Committee..recommend that the Mayor direct the Clerk of the Market to make a more convenient disposition of the several stands, by obliging many green women who occupy the lower parts of the Fly Market to remove nearer Pearl Street.
1825 Pierce Egan's Life in London 30 Oct. 319/1 Well, you see, your Honour, we are both green-women—that is, we sell cabbage, parsnips, and the like.
1994 William & Mary Q. 3rd ser. 51 28 Women were innkeepers, victualers, green-women (supplying urban markets), and storekeepers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

greenv.1

Brit. /ɡriːn/, U.S. /ɡrin/
Forms: Old English grenian, early Middle English greni (west midlands), Middle English grene, Middle English greny (south-eastern), late Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s greene, 1600s– green.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: green adj.
Etymology: In sense 1 cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch groenen (Dutch groenen ), Old Saxon grōnian (Middle Low German grȫnen ), Old High German gruonēn (Middle High German gruonen , grüenen , German grünen ) < the Germanic base of green adj. In later senses probably independently < green adj.
1. intransitive. To become green; to sprout new leaves, become covered with vegetation. Also with over or up.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > grow well or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > become green or covered with verdure
greeneOE
eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) xi. 57 Hæfð se ælmihtiga eallum gesceaftum ðæt gewrixle geset þe nu wunian sceal; [lencten deð] growan, leaf grenian, þæt on hærfest eft hrest.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 82 On lengtentima springað oððe greniað wæstmas, and on sumera hig weaxað, and on hærfest hig ripiað.
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 515 (MED) Þi rudie neb schal leanin ant as gres grenin.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 119 Hwenne þe rinde is aweie. Nenouðer hit ne bereð frut. ne hit ne greneð þer efter inlufsumes leaues.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 5351 Marche is hot miri and long..Buriouns springeþ mede greneþ.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 95 Þyse þri þinges..deþ al greny and flouri and bere frut.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 210 Grenyn, or growe grene, vireo.
1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiii. 94 Freestone greeneth presently with the first wet and raine.
c1650 (a1450) Death & Life l. 73 in I. Gollancz Sel. Early Eng. Poems (1930) V. 3 The grasse that was gray greened beliue.
1653 tr. J. Böhme Consideration upon Bk. Esaias Stiefel ii. 115 Then was the Devil and Hell..confounded: for this the dry Rod of Aaron did signifie, which greened in one night, and bare sweet Almonds.
1730 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons 20 Great Spring before Green'd all the year.
1757 J. Rutty Ess. Hist. Mineral Waters Ireland ii. xiii. 94 It [sc. mineral water] soon greened with Syrup of Violets.
1833 L. A. Stanley in A. J. C. Hare Memorials Quiet Life (1874) I. xii. 482 Larches all greening and every hedge ready to burst into full leaf.
1858 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine (1860) iv. §2. 204 The Rhine..has been gradually greening in tint as we ascended the upper portion of the stream.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. iii. 36 The new lands, already weary of producing gold, begin to green with vineyards.
1899 Daily News 15 Apr. 8/1 The wild-rose briars will be shooting strongly, the elder greening over.
1921 G. Frankau Seeds of Enchantment xv. 184 Here the black chessboard squares had already greened over.
1976 E. Scarrow N.Z. Veg. Gardening Guide 54 Tubers may be coarse and may green readily.
1999 A. Arensberg Incubus ii. iv. 41 Along my back porch in the herb bed the chive plants were greening and would soon be thick enough to cut.
2003 Canad. Geographic May 49/1 The grass on valley and coulee sides never greened up but kept the sere, bleached look of late winter.
2.
a. transitive. To colour, dye, or stain green; to impart a green colour to; to cover (over) with foliage or vegetation.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > making or becoming green > make green [verb (transitive)]
green1560
begreen1864
1560–1 Chamberlains' Acct. in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1905) III. 99 3 s...mendyng and gyldyng the great mase with mendyng the new headds of the chamberlyns staves 24 s. 8d...grenying of the staves.
1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 10 The rest with silver garnisht is, and plaited fine and neat, Least it should greene his holy hands.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 73 God Almighty..playd the Painter, when hee did so gild The turning Globes, blew'd Seas, and green'd the field.
1653 tr. J. Böhme Consideration upon Bk. Esaias Stiefel i. 34 The Heavenly pure Element with the Divine Essence greened through all the fruits, which were created for Man.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) All the Greens are first dy'd in Blue, then taken down with Woad, Verdigreese, &c. and then green'd with the Weed.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 183 Whatever greens the Spring, When heaven descends in showers.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xvi. 321 Nothing is more common than to green Pickles in a Brass Pan.
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 13 Have not rains Green'd over April's lap?
a1851 D. M. Moir Glen Roslin x, in Poet. Wks. (1852) Moss now greens the chapel walls.
1882 R. F. Burton & V. F. Cameron To Gold Coast (1883) I. iii. 75 The heap of ruins has long been greened over.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. iii. 30 The..white frock..which she had so carelessly greened..on the damping grass.
1942 H. S. Reed Short Hist. Plant Sci. xiv. 203 A small amount of oxygen was insufficient, an excess was necessary for greening the leaves.
1999 Nat. Hist. Apr. 104/3 Grass is, I suppose, the ‘worst’ of my weeds, the most hell-bent on greening the acre over with its own society of plants.
b. transitive and †intransitive. To impart a green colour to the gills of (oysters), esp. (formerly) by putting the oysters in special pits. Cf. greening n.1 1b, green gill n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(a). Now rare.The colour is said to be due to a pigment derived from the diatom Navicula ostrearia (on which the oysters feed), but the belief that it is due to other causes, such as contamination with copper, persists.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [verb (transitive)] > turn oysters green by placing them in pits
green1667
1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. i. 308 To prove that the Sun operates in the greening, Tolesbury Pits will green only in Summer; but that the Earth hath the greater power, Brickel-Sea Pits green both Winter and Summer: and for a further proof, a Pit within a foot of a greening Pit will not green.
1748 P. Morant Hist. & Antiq. Colchester i. 88 All Oysters are naturally white in the body, and brown in the fins. In order to green them, they put them into Pits [etc.].
1825 T. K. Cromwell Hist. Colchester II. 295 But this distinction of Colchester from other oysters is rapidly wearing away: indeed, it may be said, That few or none of them are now ever greened.
1866 Galaxy 1 July 434 The French oyster farmers have one department which is unknown elsewhere; that of greening the oysters.
1907 C. F. Langworthy Fish as Food (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 85) (rev. ed.) 17 To meet the demand oysters [in Europe] are greened by placing them as soon as captured in sea water, where they are kept for months and fed on a species of seaweed.
†c. transitive. Plumbing. To rub (new sheet lead) with green leaves as part of a masking layer applied to areas not to be soldered. Obsolete.
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1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 195 He scraped the Metal bright, having first..green'd it (as they phrase it), all round about, to prevent the Sodder's taking any where but where they scrape it.
d. transitive. To provide (a relatively barren or treeless area) with vegetation, esp. as part of a programme of urban revitalization or desert reclamation. Also with up.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)]
ina1387
reclaim1440
improve1523
win1531
mitigate1601
reform1607
stuba1650
regain1652
redeem1671
reduce1726
to bring to1814
to bring in1860
to break in1891
green1967
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town and country > [verb (transitive)] > render city more rural
green1967
1967 N.Y. Times 25 June d27/2 The association is continuing to encourage more trees and ‘greening up’ the city block.
1979 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 19 Jan. 4/1 The disappointing thing about ‘greening Brisbane’ has been the vandalism to trees planted by the council.
1980 Economist 23 Feb. 15/1 If the workers at one Japanese firm hear they have greened more acres of desert today than those of a rival Japanese firm, loudly they'll sing banzai.
1993 M. Reisner Cadillac Desert (rev. ed.) 5 Powell's irrigation ideas were finally embraced and pursued with near fanaticism... Greening the desert became a kind of Christian ideal.
2004 S. E. Cohen Planting Nature 118 The work..serves as a source of inspiration for those interested in the transformative power of trees or in simply greening up their city.
3. transitive. slang. To make (a person) appear simple or gullible (see green adj. 8d); to hoax, take in, swindle. Also with out.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, cheat, dupe [verb (transitive)]
belirtOE
bitruflea1250
begab1297
bobc1320
bedaffc1386
befool1393
mock1440
triflea1450
glaik?a1513
bedawa1529
fond?1529
allude1535
gulla1550
dolt1553
dor1570
poop1575
colt1579
foolify1581
assot1583
noddify1583
begecka1586
elude1594
wigeona1595
fool1598
noddy1600
fop1602
begull1605
waddle1606
woodcockize1611
bemocka1616
greasea1625
noddypoop1640
truff1657
bubble1668
cully1676
coaxc1679
dupe1704
to play off1712
noodle1769
idiotize1775
oxify1804
tomfool1835
sammyfoozle1837
trail1847
pipe lay1848
pigwidgeon1852
green1853
con1896
rib1912
shuck1959
?1825 R. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) V. xxix. 227 (note) Freshmen are called greens, and a ceremony was (and perhaps is) used in ungreening them.]
1853 Elizabethan 3 Sept. 293 I have greened him most deliciously, but still he will say nothing against Poffnel.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Sept. 7/1 Some of the little victims of over-pressure had, at any rate, enough spirit in them to ‘green’ their visitor pretty freely.
1888 T. C. Buckland Eton in 1836–41 in Longman's Mag. 12 153 Some mild attempts were made to ‘green me’, as boys call it.
1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders 294 Sim greened him out bodaciously.
1915 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap i. 5 No good greening me!
1926 E. M. Roberts Time of Man 171 Nohow Shine greened Tom outen a good shotgun.
1999 S. O'Nan Prayer for Dying (2000) vii. 152 ‘No,’ he says, ‘Fenton? You're greening me.’
4. transitive. To render sensitive to ecological issues; to modify or adapt in accordance with ecological principles. Also with up. See earlier greening n.1 5 and cf. green adj. 13.
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1984 Christian Sci. Monitor 12 Mar. 25/1 Greening the campaign?.. America's environmental movement is riding high.
1989 Green Mag. Oct. 89 (advt.) From tips on greening your home to details of a major National Society for Clean Air conference.
1992 Economist 8 Aug. 9/1 So effectively have environmentalists greened public opinion that it takes an unashamed reactionary to question the wisdom of becoming ever greener and cleaner.
2002 Nat. Home July–Aug. 15/1 They issue simple monthly challenges that help ordinary people green up their lifestyles and lessen their oil dependency.
2009 N. Conner Living Green 5 This chapter begins with ways you can green your workplace, from reducing waste to starting an office recycling program.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

greenv.2

Brit. /ɡriːn/, U.S. /ɡrin/, Scottish English /ɡrin/
Forms: Middle English grene, 1800s– green (English regional (northern) and Irish English (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 greene, pre-1700 greine, pre-1700 greyn, pre-1700 greyne, pre-1700 1700s 1900s– grein, pre-1700 1700s– green, pre-1700 1700s– grien, pre-1700 1800s grene, 1800s grean.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic girna , Old Swedish girna (Swedish girnas ), Old Danish girnes : see yearn v.1), showing metathesis and lengthening of the stem vowel.
Chiefly Scottish.
intransitive. To desire earnestly, to yearn, long after, for, or to do something.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > long or yearn [verb (intransitive)]
thirstc893
forlongc1175
longc1225
alonga1393
greena1400
suspirec1450
earnc1460
to think long?1461
sigh1549
groanc1560
hank1589
twitter1616
linger1630
hanker1642
to hang a nose1655
hangc1672
yammer1705
yen1919
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 16167 [H]erodes grenid him to se, and of his come was faine.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 15511 Lang es siþen gane þat grened [Vesp., Fairf. ȝerned] i haue þis ilk mete, mast at ete of ane.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 51 Sum grenis eftir a gus, To fars his wame full.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xii. 114 Sum feiris yair flesche, sum grenis to gadder crounis.
c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 60 Not that I grene ȝour honour to degraid.
1680 F. Sempill in Poems of Sempills of Beltrees (1849) 54 I grein'd to gang on the plain-stanes.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i Tempest may cease to jaw the rowan Flood, Corbies and Tods to grein for Lambkins Blood.
1795 R. Burns Election x. 4 Wattie That griens for the fishes and loaves.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 6 The feck o' them gae'n sickly, and greenin' for hame.
1838 A. Rodger Poems & Songs 108 Nae woman o' judgment need green To be rubbit, like me, for a kiss.
1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 40 Breeding wives are aye greening.
1924 Swatches o' Hamespun 43 An' grien for the sin-bricht hichts an' howes O' the lichtsome simmer days.
1991 E. McDonald Gangan Fuit 9 Had I nivir griened for anither pair o haunds?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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