5. (Cookery)
Defn: A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
Note: Olive is sometimes used adjectively and in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, olive brown, olive green, olive- colored, olive-skinned, olive crown, olive garden, olive tree, olive yard, etc. Bohemian olive (Bot.), a species of Elæagnus (E. angustifolia), the flowers of which are sometimes used in Southern Europe as a remedy for fevers. — Olive branch. (a) A branch of the olive tree, considered an emblem of peace. (b) Fig.: A child. — Olive brown, brown with a tinge of green. — Olive green, a dark brownish green, like the color of the olive. — Olive oil, an oil expressed from the ripe fruit of the olive, and much used as a salad oil, also in medicine and the arts. — Olive ore (Min.), olivenite. — Wild olive (Bot.), a name given to the oleaster or wild stock of the olive; also variously to several trees more or less resembling the olive.
OLIVE
Ol"ive, a.
Defn: Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
OLIVED
Ol"ived, a.
Defn: Decorated or furnished with olive trees. [R.] T. Warton.
OLIVENITE
O*liv"en*ite, n. (Min.)
Defn: An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.
OLIVER
Ol"i*ver, n.