rubricity (robrisiti)

[L. * rubric us, red (see rubric ), + -ity.] 1†. Redne . IMG:content-2564.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2565.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2566.jpg:[blocks in formation] is the sheet-anchor of the Church. The rubric is explicit here, and settles the case. W. A. Butler, Mrs. Limber's Raffle, iv. rubricose (rö'bri-kōs), a. [ IMG:content-2567.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2568.jpg:[graphic] Fetislich hir fyngres were fretted with gold wyre, And there-on red rubyes as red as any glede. Piers Plowman (B), ii. 12. Of fine rubies [var. rubins , Tyrwhitt] and of diamants. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 1289. Paled pearls and rubies red as blood. rubstone (rub's ton), n. 1. A kind of close- 2. A pure or somewhat crimson red color. grained sandstone or gritstone used for sharp- ening instruments and for polishing metallic A hard variety is made into whetstones for scythes and similar tools, and is also used for smoothing en- Branch with Flowers of Common or High Blackberry ( Rubus villosus). a , the fruit; b , leaf from the first year's shoot. You can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanch'd with fear. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 115. 3. Something resembling a ruby; a blain; a blotch; a carbuncle.-4. In her . , the tincture red or gules, when blazoning is done by means of precious stones. See blazon , n., 2.-5. In printing, a type smaller than nonpareil and larger than pearl, about the size of American agate, or 54 points in the new system of sizes. [Eng.]-6. In horol .: (a) Any variety of ruby used as jewels in watchmaking, as in the finest watches. Hence - (b) The jewel of the roller of the balance-staff of a watch, irrespective of the material of which it is made. Compare jew- el , n., 4.-7. In ornith .: ( a ) The red bird of para- dise, Para disc a rubra or sanguine a . ( b ) The ruby hummer, Clytolæma rubine us of Brazil, and some related humming-birds with ruby gorget. -Cape ruby, one of the rich ruby-red garnets found as- sociated with diamonds in the South African diamond- mines. These are larger than the so-called Arizona , New Mexico , and Colorado rubies , all of which are identical with the so-called Australian rubies , which are a variety of py- rope garnet. Cat's-eye ruby, a variety of ruby exhibit- ing more or le distinctly the chatoyant effect of the cat's eye. Ruby of arsenic or sulphur, the pro to sulphid of arsenic, or red compound of arsenic and sulphur.-Ruby II. a . Of a color resembling that of the ruby; of a rich red color inclining toward crimson. Over thy wounds now do I prophesy - Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue. Butler, fetch the ruby wine, Which with sudden greatne fills us. Ruby gla . See gla . - Ruby luster, one of the varie- ties of metallic luster. The name is given to all lusters of any shade of red, even approaching purple or maroon. -Ruby silver. Same as proustite and pyrargyrite.- Ruby spinel. See def. 1, above. - Ruby sulphur. Same as realgar . ruby (rö'bi), v. t.; pret. and pp. rubied , ppr. rubying . [ ruby , n.] To make red. With sanguine drops the walls are rubied round. Fenton , in Pope's Ody ey, xx. 426. ruby-blende (röʻbi-blend), п . 1. A clear red variety of zinc sulphid, or sphalerite.-2. Ruby silver; a red silver ore, or sulphid of arsenic (as antimony) and silver. These ores include the mineral species proustite and pyrargyrite. ruby-copper (rö'bi-kop"ėr), n . Same as cuprite. ruby-crowned (rö'bi-kround), a . Having a red patch on the poll: as, the ruby - crowned kinglet, Regulus calendula. ruby-mica (rö'bi-mikä), n . Same as goethite . rubytail (rö'bi-tāl), n . "A gold wasp or cuckoo- fly of the hymenopterons family Chrysididæ , as Chrysis ignita , having the abdomen of a ruby color. men red: specifically noting the ruby tails or Chrysididæ. See cut under Chrysididæ . ruby-throated (rö'bi-thrō"ted), a. Having a ruby gorget of feathers like metallic scales, as a humming-bird. The common ruby-throated hum- ming-bird is Trochilus colubris , the only member of the Trochi lidæ which is generally distributed in the eastern part of the United States. The male is 31 inches long and 5 inches in extent of wings, golden-green above, white below with green sides and ruby throat, the wings and tail dark-purplish. The female is smaller, and has no gor- a heap, prob. connected with Icel. hraukr = AS. hreác , a heap, rick: see reek2, rick1, ruck3.] 1. A crowd or throng; especially, a closely packed and indiscriminate crowd or ma of persons or things; a jam; a pre . There watz rynging, on ryzt, of ryche metal les Quen renkkes in that ryche rok rennen hit to cache. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1514. moth, Phragmatobia fuliginosa . ruby-wood (rö'bi-wud), n. The red sanders- wood or sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalin us. See sandalwood . ruct (ruk), n. Same as rocl . rucervine (rö-sėr' vin), a . [ Rucervus + -ine1 .] Relating or belonging to the genus Rucervus ; having characteristics of Rucervus . Its antlers are large, and of the intermediate rucervine Ca ell's Nat. Hist., III. 61. ( Encyc . Dict.) Rucervus (rö-ser'vus), n . [NL., Ru ( sa ) + Cer- vus .] A genus of East Indian Cervidæ , having doubly dichotomous antlers with a large brow- tine. There are several species. C. schomburgki inhabits Siam; C. duvauceli is the Barasingha deer of Asia; C. eld i , the thamyn, is found in Burma. ruche (rösh), n . [Also rouche ; ruche , quill- ing; cf. F.rouche , the hull of a ship, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia ruck