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1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate sig. I3 This Greene water which is held a maximum by some Surgeons hath his tincture from Viridi Ære , and likewise his astringent tast, and vertue.

1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. K3^v Hee's acquainted With the greene water and the spitting pill Familiar to him.

1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa iii. 229 The Green Water of Hartman corrected... This green Water is of excellent use for the cure of all sorts of Ulcers of the Mouth, throat and Nostrils, and in all other parts of the body.

1703 W. Salmon Collectanea Medica ii. 324/1 I..then ordered the green Water of Arsenick and Verdigris, to wash it with.

1757 E. Barker tr. L. Heister Compend. Pract. Physic 342 Externally, Hartmann's green Water, the mercurial Water, and other Things recommended for the Ozæna..are of some use.

1807 H. James Sportsman's Dict. (ed. 5) 524/1 The green water alone, without the chamber-lye, is the best of remedies for the cure of all fistulas, cankers, and galled backs.

1684 W. Russell Physical Treat. iii. 151 The green Water continued longer in such, than in those, unto whom none of my Pouder had been given.

1739 Ladies Physical Directory (ed. 7) ii. iv. 83 Then a kind of watery thin Blood, almost like Water wherein Flesh has been washed, (commonly call'd by Nurses the Green Water).

1771 B. Exton New & Gen. Syst. Midwifery (ed. 4) 151 When the Flux has continued five or six Days, then the Discharge is changed, by degrees, into a thin Matter, which is vulgarly called the Green Water.

1841 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. 192 Before its final departure it becomes of a serous character possessing a greenish tint; it is then known, in the language of the lying-in room, by the name of the green waters.

1894 Trans. Obstetr. Soc. London 35 209 In cases treated throughout the lying-in period by antiseptic injections not only was the quantity of the lochia greatly diminished, but the so-called ‘green waters’ which were due to the presence of pus cells in the discharge were absent.

1901 W. A. N. Dorland Mod. Obstetr. (ed. 2) vii. 200 From the fifth to the ninth day, inclusive, it is termed the lochia serosa or ‘green waters’.

1854 C. Pickering U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geogr. Distribution Animals & Plants 155 The Egyptian peasant..ascertains seed-time by simply counting with his fingers the number of days from ‘green water’: the name given to the initial day of the inundation.

1896 Daily News 22 July 5/3 We are now in the middle of the unhealthiest period of the year in this country—the season of ‘the green water’.

1917 W. T. Innes Goldfish Varieties & Trop. Aquarium Fishes v. 67 The objection to the ordinary type of greenhouse are, first, too much light for fishes and plants, producing an excessive growth of algæ (including green water); [etc.].

1959 Listener 2 July 38/2 Organic materials of a fibrous nature..encourage green water and algae during the inevitable breakdown processes.

1993 Garden Answers May 40/1 A fourth group, oxygenators, thrive on a diet of mineral salts that cause green water.

2001 Aquarist & Pondkeeper Apr. 82 Green water can cause the appearance of a pond to deteriorate in a matter of days.

1995 Land & Water Integration & River Basin Managem. (U.N. Food & Agric. Organization) 6 Neither the integration of soil and local, ‘Green’ water (rainfall, and the water in and on the soil) as components of the land, nor the close relationships between the land and ‘Blue’ water (in rivers, lakes, irrigation networks, aquifers) are evident in all chapters of Agenda 21.

2000 Physics & Chem. of Earth B. 25 200/1 About 60% of the world staple food production relies on rainfed irrigation, and hence green water.

2009 New Scientist 21 Nov. 8/1 There are several ways to capture more of this green water in crops, including soil-covering mulches, terraces, and underground tanks filled by the run-off from tropical downpours.