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

Vanadinite :: Vanadinite (n.) A mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride..

Ruby :: Ruby (n.) See Agate, n., 2..

Rubelet :: Rubelet (n.) A little ruby.

Balas Ruby :: Balas ruby () A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel..

Nonpareil :: Nonpareil (a.) A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).

Espinel :: Espinel (n.) A kind of ruby. See Spinel.

Ruby :: Ruby (n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.

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

Agate :: Agate (n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby..

Rubywood :: Rubywood (n.) red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

Ruby :: Ruby (v. t.) To make red; to redden.

Ruby :: Ruby (n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.

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..

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..

Rubin :: Rubin (n.) A ruby.

Proustite :: Proustite (n.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver..

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..

Rubellite :: Rubellite (n.) A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium..

Rubying :: Rubying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rub.

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