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Meaning of 'ruby' (Webster Dictionary)

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

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