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Rubicelle :: Rubicelle (n.) A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Jewel :: "Jewel (n.) A bearing for a pivot a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone, as a ruby..

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

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

Gem :: Gem (n.) A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel..

Corundum :: Corundum (n.) The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond..

Ruby-tailed :: Ruby-tailed (a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red..

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.

Schmelze :: Schmelze (n.) A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia..

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