Ruby and Brown

ruby

A transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.
A transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers.
A deep and vivid red color.
- synonyms: crimson, deep red

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
- synonyms: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby-red, scarlet

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

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Ruby is a feminine given name

brown

An orange of low brightness and saturation.
- synonyms: brownness
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858.
- synonyms: Robert Brown
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859.
- synonyms: John Brown
A university in Rhode Island.
- synonyms: Brown University

Fry in a pan until it changes color.
- usage: "brown the meat in the pan"
Make brown in color.
- usage: "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"
- synonyms: embrown

Of a color similar to that of wood or earth.
- synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown
Of skin. ( deeply suntanned).
- synonyms: browned

(v.t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
(superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
(v.t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
(v.t.) To make brown or dusky.
(v.i.) To become brown.
(n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Brown is a masculine given name