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Word Meanings - KNEBELITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese.

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  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • GREENLET
    l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
  • GREENSAND
    A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
  • BROWNBACK
    The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
  • GREENFISH
    See POLLOCK
  • GREENOCKITE
    Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
  • GREENHOUSE
    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
  • GREENWEED
    See GREENBROOM
  • MINERALIZATION
    The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
  • GREENHORN
    A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
  • GREEN-STALL
    A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • GREENISH
    Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
  • GREENBACKER
    One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
  • GREENGAGE
    A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
  • GREENROOM
    The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
  • GREEN-BROOM
    A plant of the genus Genista ; dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
  • BROWNIE
    An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • AYEGREEN
    The houseleek . Halliwell.
  • BRUNSWICK GREEN
    An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
  • ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
    A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
  • SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
    Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
  • SHAGREEN
    To chagrin.
  • UNISILICATE
    A salt of orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen atoms united to the basic metals and silicon respectively is 1:1; for example, Mg2SiO4 or 2MgO.SiO2.

 

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