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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Agate \A*gate"\, adv [Pref. a- on + gate way.] On the way agoing; as to be agate; to set the bells agate. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Agate \Ag"ate\, n. [F. agate, It agata, L. achates fr Gr ?.] 1. (Min.) 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. Note: The fortification agate, or Scotch pebble, the moss agate, the clouded agate, etc., are familiar varieties. 2. (Print.) A kind of type larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. Note: This line is printed in the type called agate. 3. A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. [Obs.] --Shak. 4. A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chalcedony \Chal*ced"o*ny\ (k[a^]l*s[e^]d"[-o]*n[y^] or k[a^]l"s[-e]*d[-o]*n[y^]; 277), n.; pl {Chalcedonies} (-n[i^]z). [ L. chalcedonius fr Gr CHalkhdw`n Chalcedon, a town in Asia Minor, opposite to Byzantium: cf calc['e]doine, OE calcidoine casidoyne Cf {Cassidony}.] (Min.) A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also {calcedony}.] Note: When chalcedony is variegated with with spots or figures, or arranged in differently colored layers, it is called {agate}; and if by reason of the thickness, color, and arrangement of the layers it is suitable for being carved into cameos, it is called {onyx}. {Chrysoprase} is green chalcedony; {carnelian}, a flesh red, and {sard}, a brownish red variety. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: agate n : an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Agate, CO Zip code(s): 80101 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Agate (Heb. shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may be the agate properly so called a semi-transparent crystallized quartz, probably brought from Sheba, whence its name In Isa. 54:12 and Ezek. 27:16, this word is the rendering of the Hebrew cadcod which means "ruddy," and denotes a variety of minutely crystalline silica more or less in bands of different tints. This word is from the Greek name of a stone found in the river Achates in Sicily.
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