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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Hemachate :: Hemachate (n.) A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper..
Gagate :: Gagate (n.) Agate.
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..
Race :: Race (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
Errorist :: Errorist (n.) One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree..
Propagable :: Propagable (a.) Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production..
Agaty :: Agaty (a.) Of the nature of agate, or containing agate..
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..
Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle..
Eyestone :: Eyestone (n.) Eye agate. See under Eye.
Graft :: Graft (n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon..
Agatize :: Agatize (v. t.) To convert into agate; to make resemble agate.
Undulatory :: Undulatory (a.) Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves..
Dendrachate :: Dendrachate (n.) Arborescent or dendritic agate.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive..
Achate :: Achate (n.) An agate.
Undulation :: Undulation (n.) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration..
Missionary :: Missionary (n) One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To generate; to produce.
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