·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.