Ruby
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word 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.
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2 n.
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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3 n.
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
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4 n.
See Agate, n., 2.
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5 n.
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
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6 a.
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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7 v. t.
To make red; to redden.
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8 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.
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9 n.
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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10 n.
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
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11 n.
See Agate, n., 2.
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12 n.
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
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13 a.
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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14 v. t.
To make red; to redden.