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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

... courted admiration, and utterly rejected the idea of that caressing assistance which men always love to give, and which women often love to receive. At the present moment she was dressed in a frock of white muslin, looped round the skirt, and bright with ruby ribbons. She had on her feet coloured boots, which fitted them to a marvel, and on her glossy hair a small new hat, ornamented with the plumage of some strange bird. On her shoulders she wore a coloured jacket, open down the front, sparkling with jewelled buttons, over which there hung ...

— Nina Balatka • Anthony Trollope

... all Oriental romances. This stone banished sadness and sin. A serpent with a ruby in its mouth was ...

— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed

... himself at a mossy spring by the side of the trail, then, as he emerged from the canon at a sudden turn, Downieville appeared. It lay far below him, at the forks of the North Yuba. How musically the roar of the river came up through the autumn stillness! Sign boards pointing to the Ruby Mine, and to the City of Six, prepare the traveler for the discovery of some settlement in the wilderness. But he is hardly prepared for such a beautiful and welcome sight. Here, tucked away among the mountains as tidily as some Eastern village, lies the county seat of Sierra County. But this ...

— Forty-one Thieves - A Tale of California • Angelo Hall

... The Scar (HODDER AND STOUGHTON) first saw publication in any of our popular dailies, but from internal evidence I should be strongly inclined to suspect it. At least Miss RUBY M. AYRES has written an admirable example of the class of tale, beloved of our serial public, in which new every morning are the tribulations of the elect, only to vanish with startling suddenness in the last days of June or December. For example, Mark, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 15, 1920 • Various

... much confidence in his tone or manner. As the girl lowered her gaze, he looked at her hungrily; his eyes feasted on the coils of dark hair, her long, black lashes, the curve of her cheek and her delicate color, the full, ruby lips, and the small, quivering chin. She was in the throes of ...

— The Coyote - A Western Story • James Roberts

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