AGATE
\ˈaɡe͡ɪt], \ˈaɡeɪt], \ˈa_ɡ_eɪ_t]\
Definitions of AGATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
By Princeton University
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an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
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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.
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A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
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A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
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A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; - so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
By Oddity Software
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On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
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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.
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A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
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A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
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A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; - so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
By Noah Webster.
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A precious stone, with colors in stripes, clouds, etc.; a boy's playing marble; a small size of type.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A variegated waxy quartz; a gem.
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A child's playing marble.
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Print. The size of type in which this line is set.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A class of variegated semi-pellucid gems, the basis of which is chalcedony, blended with variable proportions of other stones, such as the Scotch pebble, and used for rings, seals, cups, beads, boxes, and handles of small utensils. An instrument used by goldwire-drawers; so called from the agate in the middle of it, through which the wire is drawn.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A variegated variety of chalcedony quartz, the colours being arranged in clouds, spots, or bands; a tool used by gold-wire drawers and gilders.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henry Campbell Black
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ag'[=a]t, n. a precious stone composed of layers of quartz, of different tints.--adj. AGATIF'EROUS. [Gr. achat[=e]s, said to be so called because first found near the river Achates in Sicily.]
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a-g[=a]t', adv. agoing, on the way. [Prep. a, and GATE; a northern word.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Name of several varieties of precious stone (semipellucid variegated chalcedonies); burnishing instrument of gold-wire-drawers; (in United States) the printing-type called in England ruby. [French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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[L.] (Geol.) Found in R. Achates, Sicily. Chalcedonic nodules and geodes in amygdaloidal lavas. Algerian A. is a calcareous stalagmite.
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[L.] A small printing type.
By Henry Percy Smith
