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One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. [Colloq. U. S.]

Any garfish (Belone or Tylosurus).

A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred…

Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.

A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

See Bluefish, and Pollock.

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.

An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.

A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

The mallard.

A state of greenness; verdancy. Chaucer.

A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.

A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.

A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.

Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.

A native of Greenland.

, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.

With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely. -- a.

The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.

Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.