Dictionary Entry

ruby

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation[ˈɹuːbi]Used In Literature ↓

A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.

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Common Phrases

. rubylaser rubyred rubysaid rubyring rubyruby jack

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Poetry examples for “ruby”

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Thou, mean deserter of thy brother's blood!
See on these ruby lips the trembling breath,
These cheeks, now fading at the blast of death;

“We doubt not that. O yes, you miss’d us much.
T’ll stake my ruby ring upon it you did.”

And holding it up so the candle's shine
Sparked a ruby through its heart,
He drank it. "Dear, never apart

And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,

And which, when rising up from breast to brow,
Doth crown me with a ruby large enow
To draw men's eyes and prove the inner cost,—

I looked on the vintage that's ruby,

His nectar-draughts from folly's flowers,
Bright eyes, fair cheeks, and ruby lips,
Till muses melt to honey showers;

As they could tell each other's mind;
Where ruby lips are kissed as free,
As flowers are by the summer wind.

Whose silken fins, and golden scales' light
Cast upward, through the waves, a ruby glow:
There saw the swan his neck of arched snow,

Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd
By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;
Make not your rosary of yew-berries,