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brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.

te metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.

A genus of marine green algæ, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length.

An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.

e composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish.

h; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court. The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. Sir W. Scott.

Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.

Conveyed in a vehicle; furnished with a vehicle. M. Green.

The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.

A mottled-green serpentine marble.

Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn. Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass. Milton.

A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates.

A commercial name for green aniline dye.

Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. Verditer blue, a pale greenish blue color, like t…

The faintest and palest green.

Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June. A wide expanse of living verdure, cultivated gardens, shady groves, fertile cornfields, flowed round it like a sea. Motley.

Covered with verdure; clothed with the fresh green of vegetation; verdured; verdant; as, verdurous pastures. Milton.

The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.

Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.

outh African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, or Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.