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Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.

  1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.

  2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green.

    O'er the smooth enameled green.
    --Milton.

  3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.

    In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
    --Pope.

  4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.

  5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green; -- called also Helvetia green. Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin. Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald green in composition. Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper. Chrome green. See under Chrome. Emerald green. (Chem.)

    1. A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green, acid green, malachite green, Victoria green, solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate.

    2. See Paris green (below).

      Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially of a basic hydrate of chromium.

      Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green.

      Mineral green. See under Mineral.

      Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.

      Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, imperial green, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and mitis green.

      Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green.

Berlin green

Prussian \Prus"sian\, a. [From Prussia, the country: cf. F. prussien.] Of or pertaining to Prussia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Prussia.

Prussian blue (Chem.), any one of several complex double cyanides of ferrous and ferric iron; specifically, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, obtained by adding a solution of potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate of potash) to a ferric salt. It is used in dyeing, in ink, etc. Called also Williamson's blue, insoluble Prussian blue, Berlin blue, etc.

Prussian carp (Zo["o]l.) See Gibel.

Prussian green. (Chem.) Same as Berlin green, under Berlin.

Berlin green

Berlin \Ber"lin\, n. [The capital of Prussia]

  1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

  2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.

    Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware.
    --Ure.

    Berlin blue, Prussian blue.
    --Ure.

    Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.

    Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.

    Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.

    Berlin work, worsted embroidery.