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Green dragon   /grin drˈægən/   Listen
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Green  adj.  (compar. greener; superl. greenest)  
1.
Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
2.
Having a sickly color; wan. "To look so green and pale."
3.
Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound. "As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against... the greenest usurpation."
4.
Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
5.
Not roasted; half raw. (R.) "We say the meat is green when half roasted."
6.
Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. "I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs."
7.
Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc.
8.
(Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the enviroment; of political parties and political philosophies; as, the European green parties.
Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub (Emilaz rotundifolia) having a yellowish green stem and thick leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the United States; called also cat brier.
Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab (Carcinus menas) of Europe and America; in New England locally named joe-rocker.
Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc.
Green diallage. (Min.)
(a)
Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
(b)
Smaragdite.
Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant (Arisaema Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip; called also dragon root.
Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; called also mountain green.
Green ebony.
(a)
A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, and in dyeing.
(b)
The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate), to which the color of the flame is due.
Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antennae.
Green hand, a novice. (Colloq.)
Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the Nectandra Rodioei, that of Martinique is the Colubrina ferruginosa.
Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima); called also green sloke.
Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment. See Greengill.
Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West Indies early in the last century, and has become very abundant there.
Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides of platinum.
Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a vessel's deck.
Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes (Cyclophis vernalis, and C. aestivus). They are bright green in color.
Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See Turtle.
Green vitriol.
(a)
(Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline substance, very extensively used in the preparation of inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
(b)
(Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and sulphate of iron.
Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not yet baked.
Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis); called also yaffle.





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"Green dragon" Quotes from Famous Books



... the impossible. He sought after the Elixir of Life,—the Philosopher's Stone. The wealth, that should have fed the poor, was melted in his crucibles. Within these walls the Eagle of the clouds sucked the blood of the Red Lion, and received the spiritual Love of the Green Dragon, but alas! was childless. In solitude and utter silence did the disciple of the Hermetic Philosophy toil from day to day, from night to night. From the place where thou standest, he gazed at evening upon ...
— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... gin, but she could send out and get it; and the first evening of Captain Cuttwater's visit saw Mrs. Woodward's own parlour-maid standing at the bar of the Green Dragon, while two gills of spirits were being measured ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope
... theirs. Straight down the hill in front of Three Chimneys the daily passage of their six feet began to mark a path across the crisp, short turf. They began to know the hours when certain trains passed, and they gave names to them. The 9.15 up was called the Green Dragon. The 10.7 down was the Worm of Wantley. The midnight town express, whose shrieking rush they sometimes woke from their dreams to hear, was the Fearsome Fly-by-night. Peter got up once, in chill starshine, and, peeping at it through his curtains, ...
— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit
... preparations we know nothing. While the story as it is told is interesting enough, there is no record of the secret meetings in which the events were prepared. Hints are dropped, and it is asserted that within the Green Dragon tavern, a favorite meeting-place of the Whigs, were finally decided the means by which the workmen of the town should carry out the plans of the leaders. But of these meetings nothing is positively known; all we can say with certainty is that the plans worked perfectly, and that Sam ...
— The Siege of Boston • Allen French
... houses of very aged aspect, with steep, peaked gables. The front gable-end was supported on stone pillars, and the sidewalk passed beneath. Most of these old houses seemed to be taverns,—the Black Bear, the Green Dragon, and such names. We thought of dining at one of them, but, on inspection, they looked rather too dingy and close, and of questionable neatness. So we went to the Royal Hotel, where we probably fared just as badly at much more expense, and where there was a particularly gruff and crabbed ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors - Vol. II Great Britain And Ireland, Part Two • Francis W. Halsey
... apprentice, followed him, calling out the same words and leaping into the same cauldron, while the poor nurse screamed and wrung her hands. As he touched the liquor in the cauldron he felt that he was not quite himself. He was, in fact, a green dragon. He felt himself vanish—a most uncomfortable sensation—and reappeared, with a suddenness that took his breath away, in his own form and at the back door ...
— The Magic World • Edith Nesbit
... on him in a peculiarly sweet manner; he dreamed, still further, that it beckoned him to follow it to the far north, whereupon Fred was suddenly transformed into a gigantic locomotive engine; the sun all at once became a green dragon with pink eyes and a blue tail; and he set off in chase of it into the Arctic regions with a noise like a long roar ...
— Chasing the Sun • R.M. Ballantyne


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