Ruby and Reddened

noun

• 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

adjective

• 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.

• French: Jewel
• English, Latin: A Ruby Jewel
• Latin: A red, ruby jewel

verb

• Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.
  • usage: "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
  • synonyms: blush, crimson, flush, redden
• Make red.
  • usage: "The setting sun reddened the sky"
  • synonyms: redden
• Turn red or redder.
  • usage: "The sky reddened"
  • synonyms: redden

adjective

• Especially of the face. ( reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion)
  • usage: "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
  • synonyms: crimson, red, red-faced, flushed
• Lighted with red light as if with flames.
  • usage: "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire"
  • synonyms: ablaze, inflamed