AGATE
\ˈaɡe͡ɪt], \ˈaɡeɪt], \ˈa_ɡ_eɪ_t]\
Definitions of AGATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
By Princeton University
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an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
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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.
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A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
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A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
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A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; - so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
By Oddity Software
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On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
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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.
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A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
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A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
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A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; - so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
By Noah Webster.
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A precious stone, with colors in stripes, clouds, etc.; a boy's playing marble; a small size of type.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A variegated waxy quartz; a gem.
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A child's playing marble.
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Print. The size of type in which this line is set.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henry Campbell Black
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ag'[=a]t, n. a precious stone composed of layers of quartz, of different tints.--adj. AGATIF'EROUS. [Gr. achat[=e]s, said to be so called because first found near the river Achates in Sicily.]
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a-g[=a]t', adv. agoing, on the way. [Prep. a, and GATE; a northern word.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Name of several varieties of precious stone (semipellucid variegated chalcedonies); burnishing instrument of gold-wire-drawers; (in United States) the printing-type called in England ruby. [French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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[L.] (Geol.) Found in R. Achates, Sicily. Chalcedonic nodules and geodes in amygdaloidal lavas. Algerian A. is a calcareous stalagmite.
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[L.] A small printing type.
By Henry Percy Smith
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