Ruby

Definition:

  • (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.
  • (n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
  • (n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
  • (n.) See Agate, n., 2.
  • (n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
  • (a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
  • (v. t.) To make red; to redden.

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