"Ruby" is a word in ENGLISH
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a
red blain or carbuncle.
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus
Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
To make red; to redden.
See Agate, n., 2.
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.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
Read the complete definitionA beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in …
Read the complete definitionThe earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental …
Read the complete definitionA sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
Read the complete definitionRuby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, …
Read the complete definitionA variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.
Read the complete definitionHaving the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.
Read the complete definitionA kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.
Read the complete definitionA mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red …
Read the complete definitionA mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. It consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead …
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