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Light green. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Green with grass.

A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.

. A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.

A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.

A light yellowish green color resembling that of the pistachio nut.

The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.

Sea-green in color. Shak.

See under Green.

The green color of sea water.

Of a beautiful bluish green color, like sea water on soundings.

The houseleek.

To chagrin. [Obs.]

Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.

A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

et. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene.