Ruby and Stone

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

noun

• A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter.
  • usage: "he threw a rock at me"
  • synonyms: rock
• Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose.
  • usage: "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
• Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust.
  • usage: "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
  • synonyms: rock
• A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
  • usage: "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
  • synonyms: gem, gemstone
• An avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds.
  • usage: "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
• The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives. that contains the seed)
  • usage: "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
  • synonyms: pit, endocarp
• United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946.
  • synonyms: Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone
• United States filmmaker (born in 1946.
  • synonyms: Oliver Stone
• United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893.
  • synonyms: Lucy Stone
• United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989.
  • synonyms: I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
• United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946.
  • synonyms: Harlan Fiske Stone
• United States architect (1902-1978.
  • synonyms: Edward Durell Stone
• A lack of feeling or expression or movement.
  • usage: "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"

verb

• Kill by throwing stones at.
  • usage: "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
  • synonyms: lapidate
• Remove the pits from.
  • usage: "pit plums and cherries"
  • synonyms: pit

adjective

• Of any of various dull tannish or grey colors. .

• (n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
• (n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
• (n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
• (n.) To pelt, beat or kill with stones.
• (n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
• (n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
• (n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
• (n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
• (n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
• (n.) A precious stone; a gem.
• (n.) To rub, scour or sharpen with a stone.
• (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
• (n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -.
• (n.) To make like stone; to harden.
• (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
• (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.

• English: Stone
• American: Small Rock