russet

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A moderate to strong brown.
2. n. A coarse reddish-brown to brown homespun cloth.
3. n. A winter apple with a rough reddish-brown skin.
4. n. A russet Burbank.
5. adj. Moderate to strong brown.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of a reddish-brown color: applied also to some light browns not reddish. When said of leather, it includes nearly every variety browner than red Russia; but it does not include gray, nor pure buff. When applied to armor, a coppery red is generally meant—a kind of finish common in the sixteenth century.
2. Made of russet; hence, coarse; homespun; rustic: a use derived from the general color of homespun cloth.
3. Made of russet leather.
4. n. A reddish-brown color: a broad and vague term, formerly applied to various shades of gray and brown or ash-color, sometimes used restrictively, but in no well-settled sense.
5. n. Coarse cloth, country-made and often homespun, used for the garments of peasantry and even of country people of some means: a term originally derived from the reddish-brown color of much cloth of this quality, and retained when the color was different, as gray or ash-colored.
6. n. plural Clothes of russet; especially, the garb of a shepherd.
7. n. In leather manufacturing, leather finished, but not polished or colored, except as colored by the tanning liquor; russet leather.
8. n. A kind of winter apple having a brownish color, rough skin, and characteristic flavor. Though no doubt named from its color, this is rather buff than russet, with a greenish bronze-like luster, very striking in some varieties.
9. To give a russet hue to; change into russet.

Wiktionary

1. n. A coarse, reddish-brown, homespun fabric.
2. n. Country dress; homespun cloth.
3. n. A reddish-brown color.
4. n. Variety of apple of russet-colored, rough skin.
5. n. Variety of potato with dark gray-brown, rough skin.
6. adj. Having a reddish-brown color.
7. adj. Gray or ash-colored (antiquated usage).
8. adj. Rustic, homespun, coarse, plain.
9. adj. "Condition of leather when it is finished, excepting the operations of coloring and polishing the surface." (From 1880s British/American dictionary.)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. 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. adj. rare Coarse; homespun; rustic.
3. n. A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.
4. n. Cloth or clothing of a russet color.
5. n. A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.
6. n. An apple, or a pear, of a russet color.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. of brown with a reddish tinge
2. n. a reddish brown homespun fabric