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    Yaffle \Yaf"fle\, n. [Probably imitative of its call or cry.]
    (Zo["o]l.)
    The European green woodpecker ({Picus viridis} syn. {Genius
    viridis}). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called
    also {eccle}, {hewhole}, {highhoe}, {laughing bird},
    {popinjay}, {rain bird}, {yaffil}, {yaffler}, {yaffingale},
    {yappingale}, {yackel}, and {woodhack}.

    Galley-bird \Gal"ley-bird`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.)
    The European green woodpecker, called also the {yaffle};
    also, the spotted woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]


    Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. {Greener} (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
    superl. {Greenest.}] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
    groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
    gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
    {Grow.}]
    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. --Shak.

    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.
    --Burke.

    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. --L.
    Watts.

    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. --Sir W.
    Scott.

    7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
    green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.

    8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
    enviroment; -- of political parties and political
    philosophies; as, the European green parties.
    [PJC]

    {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} (Zo["o]l.), the pollock.

    {Green crab} (Zo["o]l.), 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
    ({Aris[ae]ma 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} (Zo["o]l.), any green species of plant lice or
    aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.

    {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary.

    {Green gland} (Zo["o]l.), 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 antenn[ae].

    {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 Rodi[oe]i}, 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} (Zo["o]l.), the greenfinch.

    {Green looper} (Zo["o]l.), the cankerworm.

    {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine.

    {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
    See {Greengill}.

    {Green monkey} (Zo["o]l.) 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} (Zo["o]l.), one of two harmless American snakes
    ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [ae]stivus}). They are
    bright green in color.

    {Green turtle} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), a common European woodpecker
    ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}.

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