Search the Dictionary

To redden. [R.] "Waters rubifying." Chaucer.

Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.

same as Rust, n., 2.

A ruby. [Obs.] Spenser.

Red; ruddy. [Obs.] Shak.

One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.

It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents. [Written also rouble.]

uthority; a thing definitely settled or fixed. Cowper. Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity. De Quincey.

Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics. What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals Pope.

To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. Foxe. A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after. Hare.

One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.

Redness. [R.]

A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.

A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. The natural ruby of your cheeks. Shak.

Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.

A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.

Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).

red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.