Not green.
The ungreen emerald ring went round and round, and the ungreen emerald earrings swung: Thelma was working at the rim of her glass, too.
Having little or no vegetation or plant matter.
It is funny for the seaside, it looks such a “house-ified' place, it's an ungreen seaside.
Lacking sap or vitality; desiccated.
The sheriff of Norfolk had power to search for and seize any "sound, dry, and ungreen" wood which he could find, and send the same to the Fletchers or arrow makers to be made into sheaves, tipped with steel heads according to a pattern in the Tower of London.
To expose to air after dyeing in indigo so that the greenish color fades away.
When necessary to air and ungreen, by drawing the pulley the frame rises, and the cloth drains into the vat.
To make or become familiar with and adept in handling a new environment.
From Middle English ungrene, from Old English ungrēne (“not green”), from Proto-West Germanic *ungrōnī (“not green”), equivalent to un- + green. Compare West Frisian ûngrien (“ungreen”), Dutch ongroen...
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Freshmen are called greens, and a ceremony was (and perhaps is) used in ungreening them, and admitting them to their full academical privileges.
To change from green to some other color, as occurs with leaves in the autumn.
Harvests are congratulated She is pleased with the sight, Sweet hard apples and Small ungreening leaves.