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n. A fine-grained, fibrous variety of chalcedony with colored bands or irregular clouding.

n. Games A playing marble made of agate or a glass imitation of it; an aggie.

n. A tool with agate parts, such as a burnisher tipped with agate.

n. Printing A type size, approximately 5 1/2 points.

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

n. A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

n. A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.

n. A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

n. A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

ad. On the way; agoing

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.

n. A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.

n. A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

n. A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

On the way; going; agoing; in motion: as, “set him agate again,” Lingua, iii. 6; “set the bells agate,” Cotgrave.

n. A variety of quartz which is peculiar in consisting of bands or layers of various colors blended together.

n. A draw-plate used by gold-wire drawers, named from the piece of agate through which the eye is drilled.

n. In printing, type of a size between pearl and nonpareil, giving about 160 lines to the foot. It is used chiefly in newspapers. In Great Britain it is known as ruby.

n. This line is printed in agate.

n. An instrument used by bookbinders for polishing; a burnisher.

n. A child's playing-marble made of agate, or of glass in imitation of agate.

n. Nautical, the jewel cup in the center of the compass-card, which rests upon the upright pivot in the center of the compass-bowl.

n. an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles

"I'd like to offer you black agate from a mine we own."

chalcedony    calcedony   

iceland agate    eye-agate   

moss agate    clouded agate    Scotch pebble    fortification agate   

agoing   

faggot    maggot   

malachite    jasper    topaz    carnelian    obsidian    beryl    cornelian    chalcedony    alabaster    carbuncle