[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

green \green\ gr=en, n.
   1. the color of growing plants; the color of the solar
      spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
      1913 webster

   2. a grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with
      verdant herbage; as, the village green.
      1913 webster

            o'er the smooth enameled green.       --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants;
      wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
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            in that soft season when descending showers
            call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. pl. leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets,
      etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
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   5. any substance or pigment of a green color.
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   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.
      a 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.
      b 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.
      1913 webster
see also:
alkali green helvetia green berlin green berlin brilliant green brunswick green 
chrome green chrome emerald green aldehyde green acid green 
malachite green victoria green solid green paris green gaignet's green 
methyl green light-green mineral green mineral mountain green 
green earth green schweinfurth green imperial green vienna green 
emerald qreen mitis green scheele's green swedish green parrot green 
pickel green nereid green emerald green 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

solid \sol"id\ so^l"i^d, a. l. solidus, probably akin to
   sollus whole, entire, gr. ???: cf. f. solide. cf.
   consolidate,soda, solder, soldier, solemn.
   1. having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly
      adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of
      other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; --
      opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like
      clay, or to incompact, like sand.
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   2. not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as
      distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense;
      hence, sometimes, heavy.
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   3. arith. having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as,
      a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
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   note: in this sense, cubics now generally used.
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   4. firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid
      pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
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   5. applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united
      and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
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   6. fig.: worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as
      opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm;
      strong; valid; just; genuine.
      1913 webster

            the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

            these, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the
            name of solid men.                    --dryden.
      1913 webster

            the genius of the italians wrought by solid toil
            what the myth-making imagination of the germans had
            projected in a poem.                  --j. a.
                                                  symonds.
      1913 webster

   7. sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. --i.
      watts.
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   8. bot. of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a
      bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
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   9. metaph. impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other
      material particle or atom from any given portion of space;
      -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
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   10. print. not having the lines separated by leads; not
       open.
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   11. united; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation
       is solid for a candidate. polit. cant. u.s.
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   solid angle. geom. see under angle.

   solid color, an even color; one not shaded or variegated.
      

   solid green. see emerald green
       a, under green.

   solid measure arith., a measure for volumes, in which the
      units are each a cube of fixed linear magnitude, as a
      cubic foot, yard, or the like; thus, a foot, in solid
      measure, or a solid foot, contains 1,728 solid inches.

   solid newel arch., a newel into which the ends of winding
      stairs are built, in distinction from a hollow newel. see
      under hollow, a.

   solid problem geom., a problem which can be construed
      geometrically, only by the intersection of a circle and a
      conic section or of two conic sections. --hutton.

   solid square mil., a square body or troops in which the
      ranks and files are equal.
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   syn: hard; firm; compact; strong; substantial; stable; sound;
        real; valid; true; just; weighty; profound; grave;
        important.

   usage: solid, hard. these words both relate to the
          internal constitution of bodies; but hardnotes a more
          impenetrable nature or a firmer adherence of the
          component parts than solid. hard is opposed to soft,
          and solid to fluid, liquid, open, or hollow. wood is
          usually solid; but some kinds of wood are hard, and
          others are soft.
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                repose you there; while i return to this hard
                house,
                more harder than the stones whereof 't is
                raised.                           --shak.
          1913 webster

                i hear his thundering voice resound,
                and trampling feet than shake the solid ground.
                                                  --dryden.
          1913 webster
see also:
consolidate soda solder soldier solemn fluid 
liquid plastic incompact hollow hyphened 
frivolous fallacious solid angle angle solid color 
solid green emerald green green solid measure solid newel 
hollow solid problem solid square solid hard 

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