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A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

Green. [Obs.] Chaucer.

f the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseoviridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.

A translucent garnet of a pale green color like that of the gooseberry; -- called also grossularite.

m or germander, and named from its resinous smell. Sir L. Hill. (b) A long, creeping, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium (L. clavatum); -- called also club moss. (c) A tree-shaped evergreen plant about eight inches in height, of the same genus (L. dendroideum) found in moist, dark woods in the northern part of the…

One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.

Hence, Nov. 5 is known in England as Guy Fawkes Day. -- Gunpowder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.

American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power. One fearful shock, fearful but momentary, like from the electric blow of the gymnotus. De Quincey.

int of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).

Wrapped; covered; cloaked. [Scot.] All happed with flowers in the green wood were. Hogg.

, as by a harlequin's trick. And kitten,if the humor hit Has harlequined away the fit. M. Green.

of a long, slender proboscis. The larvæ are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm. Tobacco Hawk Moth (Macrosila Carolina), and its Larva, the Tobacco Worm.

To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

A low shrub (Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

anted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. Shak. Through the verdant maze Of sweet…

s, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.

onius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.

An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, or Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Longfellow.

Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture. "Thin herbage in the plaims." Dryden.