RUBY
\ɹˈuːbi], \ɹˈuːbi], \ɹ_ˈuː_b_i]\
Definitions of RUBY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
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See Agate, n., 2.
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Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
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Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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To make red; to redden.
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To make red.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
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See Agate, n., 2.
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Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
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Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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To make red; to redden.
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To make red.
By Noah Webster.
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To make red.
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A precious stone, usually a variety of corundum, varying in color from carmine-red to crimson; the color of the stone.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To make red.
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Redness: anything red: a precious stone of a red color.
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Having the color of the ruby: red.
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To make red:-pa.t. rubied.
By Daniel Lyons
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To make red.
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Of the colour of the ruby. Ruby of zinc, red blende. Rock ruby, a fine red variety of garnet.
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A precious stone, of a carmine-red colour; anything red; redness; a carbuncle; a small-sized type.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To make red.
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A precious stone, varying in colour between a bright scarlet and crimson, next in value to the diamond; among printers, a letter of particular size.
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Of the colour of the ruby; red.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to or like a ruby; crimson.
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A transparent gem stone of a deep red color.
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A rich red like that of a ruby.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] A precious stone or mineral next to the diamond in handness and value, of various shades of red, of which the most prized is carmine red;- redness: red colour;— a blain; a blotch; a carbuncle;— a size of printing typo smaller than nonpareil—in the United States it is called agate.
