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noun

Ruby n. (pl. rubies)

1.

(Min.) 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. Note: Besides the true or Oriental ruby above defined, there are the balas ruby, or ruby spinel, a red variety of spinel, and the rock ruby, a red variety of garnet. "Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white."

2.

The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. "The natural ruby of your cheeks."

3.

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

4.

(Print.) See Agate, n., 2. (Eng.)

5.

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

Ruby of arsenic, Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy substance of a red color and a variable composition, but always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; called also ruby sulphur.

Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende or sphalerite.

Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under Red.

adjective

Ruby adj. Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.

verb

Ruby v. t. (past & past part. rubied; pres. part. rubying) To make red; to redden. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Ruby'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ruby" Quotes from Famous Books

... appeared in public. Auntie Elspie wore a sea-green brocaded satin, trimmed with silk fringe; Auntie Flora was in a dazzling silk of an ancient "changeable" variety, that was now purple and now gold, and a wonderful beaded cape of black velvet. And Auntie Janet was in her ruby velvet with a rose silk fringed parasol that turned to flame when the sun struck it. And beside they had the car filled with flowers and each Auntie carried a little posie of rosemary and pinks, Gavin's ...

— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith

... from a sky which over this place seems ever to brood with a sad smile more touching than tears, falls upon the endless arches of the Claudian Aqueduct that remind one, as Ruskin has finely said, of a funeral procession departing from a nation's grave. The afternoon sun paints them with ruby splendours, and gleams vividly upon the picturesque vegetation which a thousand springs have sown upon their crumbling sides. They lead the eye on to the Alban Hills, which form on the horizon a fitting frame to the great picture, tender-toned, ...

— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan

... bay window from which there was a magnificent view of the famous beeches. Soft Turkish cushions and velvet lounges filled it, and near it hung one of Titian's most gorgeous pictures—a dark-eyed woman with a ruby necklace. The sun's declining rays falling on the rubies, made them appear like drops of blood. It was a grand picture, one that had been bought by the lords of Beechgrove, and the present Lord Arleigh took great delight ...

— Wife in Name Only • Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay)

... gone with all its Rose, And Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows: But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a ...

— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Salaman and Absal • Omar Khayyam and Ralph Waldo Emerson

... fought for a can of it, if I had not made the can two? Come now, and let us fuddle our noses till they be as red as the liquor itself, and thy spectacles shew thee two noses, before they melt with the heat of their ruby supporter. ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton

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