These are the meanings of the letters CURBY when you unscramble them.
- Bury (n.)
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
- Bury (n.)
A manor house; a castle.
- Bury (v. t.)
Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
- Bury (v. t.)
To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
- Bury (v. t.)
To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
- Curb (n.)
A curbstone.
- Curb (n.)
A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
- Curb (n.)
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- Curb (n.)
An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
- Curb (n.)
That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
- Curb (v. i.)
To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
- Curb (v. t.)
To bend or curve
- Curb (v. t.)
To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
- Curb (v. t.)
To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.
- Ruby (a.)
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
- Ruby (n.)
A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
- Ruby (n.)
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
- Ruby (n.)
See Agate, n., 2.
- Ruby (n.)
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
- Ruby (n.)
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
- Ruby (v. t.)
To make red; to redden.