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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Agatine :: Agatine (a.) Pertaining to, or like, agate..
Vive :: Vive () Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport..
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.
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..
Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it..
Runagate :: Runagate (n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.
Achate :: Achate (n.) An agate.
Indagate :: Indagate (v. t.) To seek or search out.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the Christian religion..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. i.) To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly..
Propagable :: Propagable (a.) Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production..
Abroach :: Abroach (adv.) Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.
Aetheogamous :: Aetheogamous (a.) Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light..
Burnisher :: Burnisher (n.) A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses..
Race :: Race (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
Traducible :: Traducible (a.) Capable of being derived or propagated.
Gagate :: Gagate (n.) Agate.
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A size of type, between agate and diamond..
Agate :: Agate (n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby..
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