Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hessian \Hes"sian\, a.
   Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.

   {Hessian boots}, or {Hessians}, boot of a kind worn in
      England, in the early part of the nineteenth century,
      tasseled in front. --Thackeray.

   {Hessian cloth}, or {Hessians}, a coarse hempen cloth for
      sacking.

   {Hessian crucible}. See under {Crucible}.

   {Hessian fly} (Zo["o]l.), a small dipterous fly or midge
      ({Cecidomyia destructor}). Its larv[ae] live between the
      base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are
      very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the
      erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the
      Hessian troops, during the Revolution.

Hessian \Hes"sian\, a.
   Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.

   {Hessian boots}, or {Hessians}, boot of a kind worn in
      England, in the early part of the nineteenth century,
      tasseled in front. --Thackeray.

   {Hessian cloth}, or {Hessians}, a coarse hempen cloth for
      sacking.

   {Hessian crucible}. See under {Crucible}.

   {Hessian fly} (Zo["o]l.), a small dipterous fly or midge
      ({Cecidomyia destructor}). Its larv[ae] live between the
      base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are
      very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the
      erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the
      Hessian troops, during the Revolution.