\Brus"sels\, n.
A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a
kind of lace, etc.
{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   varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels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.