Ruby

['ruːbɪ] or ['rubi]

Definition

(noun.) a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.

(noun.) a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers.

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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.

Checker: Velma

Definition

n. a pure transparent red-coloured corundum inferior in hardness to the diamond only among gems: redness anything red: (her.) the tincture red or gules: (print.) a type smaller than nonpareil and larger than pearl—5?points in the new system: the red bird of Paradise: the ruby hummer of Brazil.—adj. red.—v.t. to make red:—pa.t. and pa.p. ru′bied.—adj. Ru′bied (Shak.) red as a ruby.—n. Ru′bine (Spens.) same as Ruby.—adj. Ru′bious (Shak.) ruby red ruddy.—ns. Ru′by-blende a clear red variety of zinc sulphide: ruby silver; Ru′by-tail a gold-wasp or cuckoo-fly.—adj. Ru′by-throat′ed like a humming-bird with a ruby gorget.—ns. Ru′by-tī′ger a British moth; Ru′by-wood red sandalwood.—Rock ruby a ruby-red garnet.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of a ruby, foretells you will be lucky in speculations of business or love. For a woman to lose one, is a sign of approaching indifference of her lover.

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