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ess substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green. Watts.

A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

umber of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.

he species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss.

Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy. "The lickerish palate of the glutton." Bp. Hall.

read lightly; to press lightly. Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.

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

A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.

A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green.

ll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite. Green linnet (Zoöl.), the European green finch.

ed arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.

a penitential character. Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker.

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

A green vegetable dye imported from China.

iven place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74º or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.…

nd. "My lord being old also." Gen. xviii. 12. Thou worthy lord Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee. Shak.

Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson.

Greedy of gain [Obs.] Such diligence as the most part of our lucrative lawyers do use, in deferring and prolonging of matters and actions from term to term. Latimer.

A mineral occurring in small, green, transparent, monoclinic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.