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rubies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruby \Ru"by\, n.; pl. Rubies. [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL. rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber. See Rouge, red.]
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(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.
Note: 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.
Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white.
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The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
The natural ruby of your cheeks.
--Shak. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
(Print.) See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]
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(Zo["o]l.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytol[ae]ma. 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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of ruby English)
Usage examples of "rubies".
He had some carved Mughal rubies in his own collection, but nothing more than ten carats, and nothing of the quality of the Montegeau ruby.
Gold bracelets and brooches studded with rubies and emeralds flashed in the sunlight, and she had a narrow gold circlet on her forehead, like a queen.
There were other rubies in the necklace, magnificent rubies, but next to the centerpiece, they faded into insignificance.
It was possible that the Montegeau rubies Faith Donovan was designing into a necklace had come from one or more of the long, long list of stolen heirlooms, but he doubted it.
As he did every night that he was near a computer, he entered a request for rubies that were carved or inscribed in some way.
Over the last few months while he had been in Afghanistan looking for a source of uncut, untreated rubies, she had forgotten just how gorgeous his eyes were.
The man who owns the rubies gave me a written description of the stones and his estimate of their worth.
Faith to set the rubies and polish the necklace up before the Savannah show.
Savannah show, a lot of appraisers are too young to recognize natural Burmese rubies on sight, or even after a bunch of tests.
Faith thought about how satisfying it would be to grab the rubies and walk out without a word.
The beauty of Burmese rubies, and what makes them so valuable, is that their natural silk transmits light to facets that might otherwise dim out because of extinction.
Like showing rubies against a bronze plate in order to make the red look more intense.
He said these rubies had been in the family for a while and he decided to celebrate the birth of the next generation by making a pretty necklace for his future daughter-in-law.
Montegeau rubies really are, I want you to look at some samples of ruby rough taken from mines all over the world.
Manmade rubies grow in curves instead of straight lines, and the tiny gas bubbles are stretched out rather than rounded.