Mal·a·chite n.  Min. Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
 Note: ☞ Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or azurite, is a related species of a deep blue color.
 Malachite green. See Emerald green, under Green, n.
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 Sol·id a.
 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.
 2. Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
 3. Arith. Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
 Note: ☞ In this sense, cubics now generally used.
 4. Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
 5. Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
 6. Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.
    The solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer.   --Milton.
    These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.   --Dryden.
    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.
 7. Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.
 8. Bot. Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
 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.
 10. Print. Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
 11. United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate. [Polit. Cant. U.S.]
 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.
 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.
 Repose you there; while I [return] to this hard house,
 More harder than the stones whereof 't is raised.   --Shak.
 I hear his thundering voice resound,
 And trampling feet than shake the solid ground.   --Dryden.
 Vic·to·ri·a prop. n.
 1. Bot. A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria.  The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil.  Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
 2. A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
 3. Astron. An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
 4. One of an American breed of medium-sized white hogs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
 Victoria cross, a bronze Maltese cross, awarded for valor to members of the British army or navy. It was first bestowed in 1857, at the close of the Crimean war. The recipients also have a pension of £10 a year.
 Victoria green. Chem. See Emerald green, under Green.
 Victoria lily Bot., the Victoria regia.  See def. 1, above.
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 Em·er·ald, a. Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. “Emerald meadows.”
 Emerald fish Zoöl., a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda.
 Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; -- also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals.
 Emerald Isle, a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure.
 Emerald spodumene, or Lithia emerald. Min. See Hiddenite.
 Emerald nickel. Min. See Zaratite.
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 Green 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. (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.