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A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

ransmuting something common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.

seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

eings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

rk, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

aring the almond. -- Almond willow (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of a light green on both sides; almond-leaved willow (Salix amygdalina). Shenstone.

as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

ssive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term f…

A heavy green oil (partially solidifying on cooling), which distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.

Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

ppreciation of colors. His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character. J. R. Green.

opriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end. The aptness of his quotations. J. R. Green.