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Green"ock*ite (?), n. [Named after Lord Greenock.] (Min.) Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

Green"room` (grn"room`), n. The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.

Green"sand` (-s&?;nd`), n. (Geol.) A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.

Greensand is often called marl, because it is a useful fertilizer. The greensand beds of the American Cretaceous belong mostly to the Upper Cretaceous.

Green"shank` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

Green"-stall` (?), n. A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.

Green"stone` (grn"stn`), n. [So called from a tinge of green in the color.] (Geol.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.

Green"sward` (-swrd') n. Turf green with grass.

Greenth (grnth), n. [Cf. Growth.] The state or quality of being green; verdure. [R.]

The greenth of summer.

G. Eliot.

Green"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) See Greenbroom.

Green"wood` (?), n. A forest as it appears in spring and summer.

Green"wood`, a. Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. Dryden.

Greet (?), a. Great. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Greet, v. i. [OE. greten, AS. grtan, grtan; akin to Icel. grta, Sw. grÂta, Dan. grÊde, Goth. grctan; cf. Skr. hrd to sound, roar. √50.] To weep; to cry; to lament. [Obs. or Scot.] [Written also greit.] Spenser.

Greet, n. Mourning. [Obs.] Spenser.

Greet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Greeting.] [OE. greten, AS. grtan to address, approach; akin to OS. grtian, LG. grˆten, D. groeten, OHG. gruozzen, G. gr¸ssen. √50.] 1. To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.

Shak.

2. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

In vain the spring my senses greets.

Addison.

3. To accost; to address. Pope.

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Greet (?), v. i. To meet and give salutations.

There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.

Shak.