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What does "ruby" mean?

Ruby: The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. The natural ruby of your cheeks. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
  2. 3.(Print.) See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]
  3. 4.(Zoöl.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolæma. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast. 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.
  4. 5.Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
  5. 6.To make red; to redden. [R.] Pope.

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