What is the meaning of Agate?

A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.

The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+2-point.

One fourteenth of an inch.

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

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

A marble made from agate.

A testicle.

On the way; agoing.

Alternative form of ahate.

present adverbial passive participle of agi

agate

adverbial present passive participle of agar

plural of agata

agate

On the road, afoot, going about

away

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