Agate

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adv On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.

II. Agate ·noun A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.

III. Agate ·noun A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

IV. Agate ·noun A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, ·etc.;

— so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

V. Agate ·noun 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.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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