Definition of agate

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Agate (n.) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing..

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Bagatelle :: Bagatelle (n.) A trifle; a thing of no importance.
Suffragating :: Suffragated (imp. & p. p.) of Suffragat.
Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it..
Ruby :: Ruby (n.) See Agate, n., 2..
Plagate :: Plagate (a.) Having plagae, or irregular enlongated color spots..
Disseminator :: Disseminator (n.) One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease..
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..
Agate :: Agate (n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby..
Generate :: Generate (v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species..
Calumniate :: Calumniate (v. i.) To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (n.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava..
Cryptogamia :: Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds..
Delusion :: Delusion (n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
Refragate :: Refragate (v. i.) To oppose.
Seminate :: Seminate (v. t.) To sow; to spread; to propagate.
Stratification :: Straticulate (a.) Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate..
Race :: Race (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
Sative :: Sative (a.) Sown; propagated by seed.
Inoculator :: Inoculator (n.) One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.
Eyestone :: Eyestone (n.) Eye agate. See under Eye.
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