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A genus of shrubs growing in Australia, having beautiful, hard, dry, evergreen leaves.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

ery; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every. Shak. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton. In short each man's happiness depends upon himself. Sterne.

ich admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty.

European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.

A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.

A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).

hing. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble.

A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.

A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

even hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian.

The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.

To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser.

f preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. -- En"si*list (#), n.

group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.