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