Word Meanings - VERDINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A commercial name for green aniline dye.

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• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• 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
• COMMERCIALLY
  In a commercial manner.
• 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
• 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
• COMMERCIAL
  Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial
• 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.
• 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.
• GREENHEAD
  The mallard. The striped bass. See Bass.
• GREENTH
  The state or quality of being green; verdure. The greenth of summer. G. Eliot.
• GREENFINCH
  1. A European finch ; -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep. 2. The Texas sparrow , in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.
• GREENBONE
  Any garfish . The European eelpout.
• AYEGREEN
  The houseleek . Halliwell.
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• MAUVANILINE
  See MAUVE
• 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.
• SCHEELE'S GREEN
  See GREEN