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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.

The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.

ctly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.

A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.

Turf green with grass.

The state or quality of being green; verdure. [R.] The greenth of summer. G. Eliot.

See Greenbroom.

Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. Dryden.

The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day. [Scot.] Burns.

Same as Indigene. Darwin.

A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland] S. C. Hall.

Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge. A bow he bare and arwes [arrows] bright and kene. Chaucer. That my keen knife see not the wound it makes. Shak.

A professional mourner who wails at a funeral. [Ireland]