·adj Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.
·noun ·see <<Agate>>, ·noun, 2. II. Ruby ·adj Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips. III. Ruby ·noun Th...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(Heb. peninim), only in plural (Lam. 4:7). The ruby was one of the stones in the high priest's breas...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·adj Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; — chiefly used in composition; as, bob...
·- A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. ·see <<Spinel>>. ...
Red-faced. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·adj Having the tail cropped. ...
·adj Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. ...
·adj Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed. ...
·adj Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. ...
·adj Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon. ...
·adj Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; — said of many bir...
·adj Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; — said of birds. ...
·adj Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. ...
·adj Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. ...
·adj Having a red tail. ...
·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. ...
·adj Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones....
·adj Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. ...
·adj Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. ...
·adj Having a short, thick tail. ...
·adj United by dovetailing; dovetailed. II. Swallow-tailed ·adj Having a tail like that of a swallo...
·adj Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedl...
·adj Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a w...
Fastened by dove-tailing a way of letting one timber into another, so that they cannot slip asunder....
The Sailor's Word-Book
n. See onychogale. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
n. an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray. ...