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(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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(n.) See Agate, n., 2.
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(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
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(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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(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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(v. t.) To make red; to redden.
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(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.