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Webster 1913 Edition

Balas ruby

Bal′as ruˊby

.

[OE.

bales

,

balais

, F.

balais

, LL.

balascus

, fr. Ar.

balakhsh

, so called from

Badakhshan

,

Balashan

, or

Balaxiam

, a place in the neighborhood of Samarkand, where this ruby is found.]

(Min.)

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

.