prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Belgium. Population (2000) = 949, 070 (metro). It has given its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc. [ PJC ]

Brussels carpet, a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern. --
Brussels ground, a name given to the handmade ground of real Brussels lace. It is very costly because of the extreme fineness of the threads. --
Brussels lace, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground. --
Brussels net, an imitation of Brussels ground, made by machinery. --
Brussels point. See Point lace. --
Brussels sprouts (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or “sprouts, ” each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage. --
Brussels wire ground, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. rousset, dim. of roux red, L. russus (for rudtus, rudhtus), akin to E. red. See Red, and cf. Roussette. ] 1. Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color. [ 1913 Webster ]

The morn, in russet mantle clad. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our summer such a russet livery wears. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Coarse; homespun; rustic. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A russet color; a pigment of a russet color. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cloth or clothing of a russet color. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the English russet, and the Roxbury russet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Russet, n., 2 and 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a russet color; russet. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One who untrussed persons for the purpose of flogging them; a public whipper. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]