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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Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments..
Propagated :: Propagated (imp. & p. p.) of Propagat.
Jasperated :: "Jasperated (a.) mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate..
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..
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Traducible :: Traducible (a.) Capable of being derived or propagated.
Propagator :: Propagator (n.) One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.
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..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
Achate :: Achate (n.) An agate.
Inoculator :: Inoculator (n.) One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.
Agate :: Agate (n.) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
Agate :: Agate (adv.) On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate..
Disseminator :: Disseminator (n.) One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease..
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.
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..
Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it..
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..
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..
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