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Excessively greedy.

To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. Sir W. Scott.

A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes. J. R. Green.

Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others. J. R. Green.

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

alue come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phonician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M.

An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

Inclosed with a paling. "A paled green." Spenser.

A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.

A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.

gs adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in November, 1860, had a green cabbage palmetto in the center of a white field; the final one, January, 1861, had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand corner.

to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.

Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.

A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.

An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.

The collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek pantheon.

A parish priest in the Greek Church. Shipley.

A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.

rs extremely elongated. The adult male of T. paradisi is white, with the head glossy dark green, and crested. -- Paradise grackle (Zoöl.), a very beautiful bird of New Guinea, of the genus Astrapia, having dark velvety plumage with brilliant metallic tints. -- Paradise nut (Bot.), the sapucaia nut. See Sapucaia nut.…

A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.