With the sense ‘resembling steel’ (in colour, hardness, etc.), as steel gloss; steel-bright, steel-hard, steel-sharp, steel-straight, steel-strong…

Of a dark green colour, similar to that of bottle glass (bottle glass n. (b) at bottle, n.3 compounds 8); designating this colour. Cf. bottle, n.3 5.

In the drapery trade, name for a dark green colour verging on black.

applied by Scott to the ‘Lincoln green’, said in the ballads to be the special costume of Robin Hood and his men; hence (?), used as the commercial…

(a) n. a dark olive green colour, as found on the uniforms of many early British rifle regiments; (b) adj. of this shade of green.

(a) a dark green vegetable dye made from spinach; (b) a dark green colour; also attributive or as adj.

(a) n. the colour of pine needles; (b) adj. of this colour.

Of a shade of green typically used for or resembling the colour of army uniforms, esp. a dark olive-green colour.

(attributive). Resembling malachite in colour or pattern.