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▪ I. Russell1|ˈrʌsəl|
A ribbed or corded fabric, usually made with a cotton warp and woollen weft. Commonly called Russell cord.
1868Chambers's Encycl. X. 268/1 Some Coburgs, Orleans, Russells, and Damasks are likewise made with silk warps. 1873[see Persian cord s.v. Persian a. 2]. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlewk. 429/1 Russell Cord, a kind of corded Rep, employed for making summer coats, scholastic gowns, lawyers' bags, etc. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 662/1 The variety of worsted cloths is still greater, embracing says, serges,..Russell cords, coburgs,..and Orleans cloth. 1896Woman's Life 11 July 179/2, I cannot say that the coarse blue alpaca in various shades of navy blue and prune finds favour in my eyes... It reminds me too much of the fearsome fabric known as Russell cord, that in the far-off days of my childhood constituted my school dresses. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 735/1 Russel cord (textiles), a dress fabric of plain weave, with a cord effect; made from cotton warp and worsted or mohair weft, the warp being in tapes. 1966Guardian 25 Apr. 7/2 Russell cord is the right stuff for stuff wearers.
▪ II. Russell2|ˈrʌsəl|
The name of Patrick Russell (1727–1805), Scottish physician and naturalist, used attrib. and in the possessive in Russell('s) viper to designate a venomous snake, Vipera russellii, found in India, Burma, and Thailand, distinguished by a yellowish-brown skin marked with black rings or spots, and first named Coluber russellii in his honour by G. Shaw in 1797.
[1797G. Shaw Naturalist's Miscellany VIII. pl. ccxci (caption) The Russelian Snake. Ibid., Dr. Patrick Russel..presented the elegant specimen here figured to the British Museum.] 1908E. P. Stebbing Man. Elem. Forest Zool. India xii. 182 The Russell's Viper is one of the most deadly of all snakes. 1937L. Bromfield Rains Came i. i. 7 With the first splattering drop of rain they would come swarming out of old roots and crannies in the wall—the cobras, the Russell's vipers, the fierce little kraits. 1940Lancet 17 Aug. 195/1 It was decided to determine how far commercial preparations of Russell-viper venom would meet these requirements. 1961Listener 2 Nov. 735/2 Russell's Vipers, when I have caught them, were always very sluggish. 1972M. Richardson Fascination of Reptiles xv. 158 Another snake which Indian snake charmers sometimes carry around in their baskets is Russell's viper.
▪ III. Russell3|ˈrʌsəl|
The name of Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872–1970), mathematician and philosopher, used attrib. and in the possessive in connection with a paradox concerning the set of all sets that do not contain themselves as members: the condition for it to contain itself is that it should not contain itself.
1922tr. Wittgenstein's Tractatus 57 Herewith Russell's paradox vanishes. 1937Jrnl. Symb. Logic II. 31 This contradiction corresponds to Russell's paradox. 1950W. V. Quine Methods of Logic (1952) §42. 249 This difficulty is called Russell's paradox, for its discoverer (1901). 1963G. T. Kneebone Math. Logic iv. 127 Russell's antinomy..this is the paradox of the class {ob}x/x{notelem}x{cb}. 1967Encycl. Philos. V. 46/1 Russell's Paradox,..Russell..came upon a new paradox, that of the set of all sets that do not contain themselves as elements. A set r, the ‘Russell set’, is defined by the following condition: for every x, x{notelem}r if and only if x{elem}x. By substitution we obtain: r{notelem}r if and only if r{notelem}r. 1977Bell & Machover Course in Math. Logic x. 462 Unfortunately..(1.2) is untenable even when k = 0, because it leads to the well-known Russell paradox.
▪ IV. Russell4|ˈrʌsəl|
The name of George Russell (1857–1951), English gardener, used attrib., esp. in Russell lupin, to designate a large perennial lupin belonging to a variety of Lupinus polyphyllus developed by him, introduced in 1937, and distinguished by long racemes of papilionaceous flowers in one or two of a wide range of colours.
1937My Garden XI. 332 The ‘Russell Lupins’..would be more correctly described as a new ‘race’ rather than an improvement of an old. 1957A. Bloom Hardy Perennials 229 The famous Russell strain..has superseded all others in recent years. Ibid. 230 Russell Lupins..have few dislikes other than over-rich or limy soils. 1974Country Life 17 Jan. 72/3 George Russell, a Yorkshire gardener, was attempting to improve the perennial lupin and found..one that had sported to a new shape of flower... Virtually all subsequent lupins have been of the ‘Russell’ type. 1979Guardian 25 Aug. 9/6 We grow Russell lupins as a hobby. |