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   Ruby , n.; pl. Rubies . [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL. rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber. See Rouge, red.]
   (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.
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   ☞ 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.
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   Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white.
   Chaucer.
   
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   The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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   The natural ruby of your cheeks.
   Shak.
   
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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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   (Print.) See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]
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   (Zool.) 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 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.
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   Ruby, a. Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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   Ruby, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rubied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rubying.] To make red; to redden. [R.]
   Pope.
   
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