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A colorlees or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.

fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.

which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.

Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play [1675].

tury, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch.canary.

wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

th that which resembles sugar or candy. Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. Drayson.

e (Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The…

l marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidæ, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod. [Written also capelan and caplin.]

The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.

A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.

[Obs.] You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong. Greene.

An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.

A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. Gray with a cast of green. Woodward.

The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

emical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.

s silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

Of or pertaining to the cerris. Chaplets green of cerrial oak. Dryden.