Thesaurus: russia

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1. n. A country of Europe and Asia.
2. A country of Europe and Asia. Russia iron, a kind of sheet iron made in Russia, having a lustrous blue-black surface. -- Russia leather, a soft kind of leather, made originally in Russia but now elsewhere, having a peculiar odor from being impregnated with an oil obtained from birch bark. It is much used in bookbinding, on account of its not being subject to mold, and being proof against insects. -- Russia matting, matting manufactured in Russia from the inner bark of the linden (Tilia Europæa).
3. A country of Europe and Asia. Russia iron, a kind of sheet ironmade in Russia, having a lustrous blue-black surface.-- Russia leather, a soft kind of leather, made originally in Russiabut now elsewhere, having a peculiar odor from being impregnated withan oil obtained from birch bark. It is much used in bookbinding, onaccount of its not being subject to mold, and being proof againstinsects.-- Russia matting, matting manufactured in Russia from the innerbark of the linden (Tilia Europæa).
4. n. a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917 n. a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state