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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.

 Im·pe·ri·al a.
 1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict.
 The last
 That wore the imperial diadem of Rome.   --Shak.
 2. Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. “The imperial democracy of Athens.”
 Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
 With an imperial voice.   --Shak.
 To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
 These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.   --Dryden.
    He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.   --E. Everett.
 3. Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc.
 Imperial bushel, gallon, etc. See Bushel, Gallon, etc.
 Imperial chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old German empire.
 Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor.
 Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German empire.
 Imperial drill. Manuf. See under 8th Drill.
 Imperial eagle. Zool. See Eagle.
 Imperial green. See Paris green, under Green.
 Imperial guard, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I.
 Imperial weights and measures, the standards legalized by the British Parliament.