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Ruby :: Ruby (a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips..

Mezereon :: Mezereon (n.) A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine..

Munjistin :: Munjistin (n.) An orange-red coloring substance resembling alizarin, found in the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia munjista)..

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet..

Deckle :: Deckle (n.) A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper..

Pyrargyrite :: Pyrargyrite (n.) Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster..

Fray :: Fray (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing..

Sambucus :: Sambucus (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.

Shallon :: Shallon (n.) An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry..

Rubicon :: Rubicon (n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar..

Scapple :: Scapple (v. t.) To dress in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing, as stone..

Yaupon :: Yaupon (n.) A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea..

Dry-rubbing :: Dry-rubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dry-ru.

Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab;.

Rubrician :: Rubrician (n.) Alt. of Rubricis.

Shoad :: Shoad (n.) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines..

Rabot :: Rabot (n.) A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.

Styrax :: Styrax (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and S. Benzoin yields benzoin..

Oleander :: Oleander (n.) A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose..

Triturate :: Triturate (v. t.) To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash..

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