Greengage definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary GREE'NGAGE, n. A species ... 1: sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum [syn: greengage, greengage plum] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: green + Sir William Gage ... derived from the Prunus domestica are described; among them the greengage, the Orleans, the purple gage, or Reine Claude Violette, and ... plum curculio. See Illust. under Curculio. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Greengage Green"gage`, n. (Bot.) A kind of plum of medium ... Francis I. See Gage. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (greengages) A greengage is a greenish-yellow plum with a sweet taste. ...
... stake, risk III. variant of gauge IV. noun Date: 1847 greengage Oxford Reference Dictionary 1. n. & v. --n. 1 a pledge ... rel. to WED 2. US var. of GAUGE. 3. n. = GREENGAGE. Etymology: abbr. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Wire Wire, n. [OE ... So called because an English family named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last century.] A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Gage Gage, v. t. [imp. & ...