Definition of ruby

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

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Schmelze :: Schmelze (n.) A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia..
Ruby :: Ruby (n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle..
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..
Ruby :: Ruby (n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
Ruby-tailed :: Ruby-tailed (a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red..
Espinel :: Espinel (n.) A kind of ruby. See Spinel.
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..
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..
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)..
Rubying :: Rubying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rub.
Ruby :: Ruby (a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips..
Rubelet :: Rubelet (n.) A little ruby.
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..
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.) See Agate, n., 2..
Agate :: Agate (n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby..
Ruby :: Ruby (v. t.) To make red; to redden.
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..
Balas Ruby :: Balas ruby () A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel..
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