ruby : Idioms & Phrases

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balas ruby

  • noun a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel
    balas.
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Bal"as ru`by
Etymology
OE. bales, balais, F. balais, LL. balascus, fr. Ar. balakhsh, so called from Badakhshan, Balashan, or Balaxiam, a place in the neighborhood of Samarcand, where this ruby is found.
Definitions
  1. (Min.) A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.
Webster 1913

Rock ruby

  • (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

Ruby of zinc

  • (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende or sphalerite.
Webster 1913

Ruby silver

  • (Min.), red silver. See under Red.
Webster 1913

ruby spinel

  • noun a spinel used as a gemstone (usually dark red)
    ruby spinel.
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ruby wood

  • noun hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork
    red sandalwood.
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ruby-crowned kinglet

  • noun American kinglet with a notable song and in the male a red crown patch
    ruby-crowned kinglet; Regulus calendula.
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ruby-crowned wren

  • noun American kinglet with a notable song and in the male a red crown patch
    ruby-crowned kinglet; Regulus calendula.
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ruby-red

  • adjective satellite of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
    reddish; scarlet; cherry; crimson; blood-red; cerise; cherry-red; carmine; ruby; red; ruddy.
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ruby-tailed

Ru"by-tailed` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.
Webster 1913

spinel ruby

  • noun a spinel used as a gemstone (usually dark red)
    ruby spinel.
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