Definition of ruby

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Ruby (n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle..

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Schmelze :: Schmelze (n.) A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia..
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..
Ruby :: Ruby (n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum..
Rubytail :: Rubytail (n.) A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees..
Rubelet :: Rubelet (n.) A little ruby.
Rubythroat :: Rubythroat (n.) Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris)..
Rubin :: Rubin (n.) A ruby.
Ruby :: Ruby (n.) See Agate, n., 2..
Proustite :: Proustite (n.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver..
Spinel :: Spinelle (n.) A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also chromium..
Espinel :: Espinel (n.) A kind of ruby. See Spinel.
Rubicelle :: Rubicelle (n.) A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil..
Agate :: Agate (n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby..
Ruby :: Ruby (n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
Balas Ruby :: Balas ruby () A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel..
Rubying :: Rubying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rub.
Ruby :: Ruby (v. t.) To make red; to redden.
Nonpareil :: Nonpareil (a.) A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
Rubellite :: Rubellite (n.) A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium..
Ruby-tailed :: Ruby-tailed (a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red..
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