"How green are you and fresh in this old world!"
GREEN-BONE. The trivial name of the viviparous blenny, or guffer, the backbone of which is green when boiled; also of the gar-fish.
GREEN-FISH. Cod, hake, haddock, herrings, &c., unsalted.
GREEN-HANDS. Those embarked for the first time, and consequently inexperienced.
GREEN-HORN. A lubberly, uninitiated fellow. A novice of marked gullibility.
GREENLAND DOVE. The puffinet; called scraber in the Hebrides; about the size of a pigeon.
GREENLAND WHALE. See [Right Whale].
GREEN-MEN. The five supernumerary seamen who had not been before in the Arctic Seas, whom vessels in the whale-fishery were obliged to bear, to get the tonnage bounty.
GREEN SEA. A large body of water shipped on a vessel's deck; it derives its name from the green colour of a sheet of water between the eye and the light when its mass is too large to be broken up into spray.
GREEN-SLAKE. The sea-weed otherwise called [lettuce-laver] (which see).