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Russet [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Of a reddish brown color; as a russet mantle.

2. Our summer such a russet livery wears.

Russet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A country dress.

Russet [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. Coarse; homespun; rustic.

Russet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

2. Cloth or clothing of a russet color.

3. A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.

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

Russeting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of apple of a russet color and rough skin. [I have never known a pear so called in America, though it seems that in England pears have this name.]

Russeting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Russet, n., 2 and 4.

Russety [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of a russet color; russet.