"ruby" Definition

Definitions for the word "ruby" from multiple English dictionaries.

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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
See Agate, n., 2.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a.
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To make red; to redden.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
(pl. -ies) 1 rare precious stone varying in colour from deep crimson to pale rose. 2 deep red colour. adj. Of this colour. [latin rubeus red]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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