Thesaurus: ruby

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1. 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.
2. n. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
3. n. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
4. n. See Agate, n., 2.
5. n. Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
6. a. Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
7. v. t. To make red; to redden.
8. adj. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
9. n. a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
10. n. a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
11. n. a deep and vivid red color
12. 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. Chaucer. 2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. The natural ruby of your cheeks. Shak. 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. (Zoöl.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolæma. 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. Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips. To make red; to redden. [R.] Pope.