"Agate" is a word in ENGLISH
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells
agate.
A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so
called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than
nonpareil; in England called ruby.
A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small
figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
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An agate.
Read the complete definitionContaining or producing agates.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or like, agate.
Read the complete definitionTo convert into agate; to make resemble agate.
Read the complete definitionOf the nature of agate, or containing agate.
Read the complete definitionA variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of …
Read the complete definitionv. /AG-/ to walk or run without looking, to walk or run wildly. Saan ka nga agat-atingaw ta dikanto ket …
Read the complete definitionThe shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil …
Read the complete definitionA tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or …
Read the complete definitionArborescent or dendritic agate.
Read the complete definitionA stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, …
Read the complete definitionEye agate. See under Eye.
Read the complete definitionAgate.
Read the complete definitionA species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.
Read the complete definitionAgate jasper.
Read the complete definitionmixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.
Read the complete definitionA size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
Read the complete definitionA size of type, between agate and diamond.
Read the complete definitionThe lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.
Read the complete definitionSee Agate, n., 2.
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