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The act or state of becoming green through the formation of chlorophyll.
Beyond power; transcending authority; -- a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.
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Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonidae. In many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored. Called also greenlet.
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Beginning to be green; slightly green; greenish.
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A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.
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A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.
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An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton.
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An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
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An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.
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Green; not withered.
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An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.
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l. (Zool.) One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love (V. Philadelphicus); the warbling greenlet (V. gilvus); the yellow-throated greenlet (V. flavifrons) and others. See Vireo.
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Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak.
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