'Solid green' definitions:

Definition of 'Solid green'

From: GCIDE
  • Solid \Sol"id\ (s[o^]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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Arith.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In this sense, cubics now generally used. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Bot.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. (Print.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate. [Polit. Cant. U.S.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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]

Definition of 'solid green'

From: GCIDE
  • Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Any substance or pigment of a green color. [1913 Webster]
  • 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]