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A garden; a pleasure garden. [Obs.] "Into an herber green." Chaucer.

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.

A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

The European green woodpecker or yaffle. [Written also high- hoo.]

A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.

ub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.

A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

le consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species. Hornblende schist (Geol.), a hornblende rock of schistose structu…

A heated room for drying green ware.

s Cassine (C. maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. Loudon. -- Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant.

d walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.

Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.

Eating green shoots, as certain insects do.

An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.

A fragrant kind of green tea. Hyson skin, the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine. M'Culloch.

large American lizards of the family Iguanidæ. They are arboreal in their habits, usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.

A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.

drill. (Manuf.) See under 8th Drill. -- Imperial eagle. (Zoöl.) See Eagle. -- Imperial green. See Paris green, under Green. -- Imperial guard, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I. -- Imperial weights and measures, the standards legalized by the British Parliament.