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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Runagate :: Runagate (n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.
Inoculator :: Inoculator (n.) One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.
Jaspachate :: Jaspachate (n.) Agate jasper.
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments..
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..
Mythologize :: Mythologize (v. i.) To construct and propagate myths.
Agatiferous :: Agatiferous (a.) Containing or producing agates.
Jasperated :: "Jasperated (a.) mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated 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..
Agate :: Agate (n.) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A size of type, between agate and diamond..
Traducible :: Traducible (a.) Capable of being derived or propagated.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
Agate :: Agate (n.) 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..
Plagate :: Plagate (a.) Having plagae, or irregular enlongated color spots..
Body :: Body (n.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body..
Refragate :: Refragate (v. i.) To oppose.
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..
Achate :: Achate (n.) An agate.
Bagatelle :: Bagatelle (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player..
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