ruˈbin or ruˈbine /-bin/ noun (Spenser)

A ruby

rubinˈeous adjective

ruˈbious adjective

Ruby, red, ruddy

ruˈby-coloured adjective

ruby glass noun

Glass coloured a deep red by the addition of mineral oxides

ruby-redˈ adjective

Deep crimson

ruby silver noun

1. Proustite
2. Pyrargyrite

ruby spinel noun

A ruby-red spinel (also spinel-ruby)

ruˈby-tail noun

A gold-wasp, or cuckoo-fly

ruˈbythroat noun

A hummingbird with a ruby gorget

ruˈbythroated adjective

ruby wedding noun

A fortieth wedding anniversary

rub¹ /rub/

transitive verb (rubbˈing; rubbed)

1. To apply friction to
2. To move something with pressure along the surface of
3. To move with pressure along the surface of something
4. To clean, polish or smooth by friction
5. To remove, erase or obliterate by friction (usu with away, off or out)
6. To grind, sharpen, chafe or treat by friction
7. To cause to pass by friction (with in, through, etc)
8. To impede (Shakespeare)
9. To irritate, fret
10. To take a rubbing of

intransitive verb

1. To apply, or move with, friction
2. To meet an impediment (esp in bowls)
3. To chafe
4. To grate
5. To fret
6. To make shift, to get along somehow
7. To be able to be rubbed

noun

1. Process or act of rubbing
2. An impediment, or a meeting with an impediment (bowls)
3. An inequality or uneven place
4. A difficulty
5. A hitch
6. An irritating experience

rubbˈing noun

1. Application of friction
2. Experience of rubs (Shakespeare)
3. An impression of an inscribed surface produced by rubbing heelball or plumbago upon paper laid over it

rubbing alcohol noun

Denatured ethyl alcohol used as an antiseptic or in massage

rubbing post noun

One for cattle to rub against

rubbing stone noun

A stone for smoothing

rubˈdown noun

An act or experience of rubbing down

rubˈout noun

1. An act of rubbing out
2. A murder (slang)

rubˈstone noun

A whetstone

rub along (informal)

1. To get along, to manage somehow
2. To be on more or less friendly terms (with)

rub down

1. To rub from head to foot
2. To remove (a surface) by rubbing in order to repaint, etc
3. To search by passing the hands over the body

rub in

1. To force into the pores by friction
2. To mix (fat) into flour by rubbing together with the fingertips (cookery)
3. To be unpleasantly insistent in emphasizing

rub off on (to) (figurative)

To pass to (another person or thing) by close contact, association, etc

rub of (or on) the green

Chance events over which one has no control (orig an outside interference with the ball in golf)

rub one's hands

To rub one's palms together, esp as a sign of satisfaction

rub out

1. To erase
2. To murder (slang)

rub shoulders or (US) elbows

To come into social contact (with)

rub someone's nose in it (informal)

To remind someone insistently of a mistake, fault, misdeed, etc

rub (or rub up) the wrong way

To irritate by tactless handling

rub up

1. To polish
2. To freshen one's memory of