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