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ruby

  1. 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. (n.)
  2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. (n.)
  3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle. (n.)
  4. See Agate, n., 2. (n.)
  5. Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast. (n.)
  6. Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips. (a.)