Agate
Word | AGATE |
Character | 5 |
Hyphenation | ag ate a gate |
Pronunciations | /ˈæ.ɡət/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Agate"
What do we mean by agate?
A fine-grained, fibrous variety of chalcedony with colored bands or irregular clouding. noun
A playing marble made of agate or a glass imitation of it; an aggie. noun
A tool with agate parts, such as a burnisher tipped with agate. noun
A type size, about 5 1/2 points. noun
A variety of quartz which is peculiar in consisting of bands or layers of various colors blended together. noun
A draw-plate used by gold-wire drawers, named from the piece of agate through which the eye is drilled. noun
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. noun
This line is printed in agate. noun
An instrument used by bookbinders for polishing; a burnisher. noun
A child's playing-marble made of agate, or of glass in imitation of agate. noun
Nautical, the jewel cup in the center of the compass-card, which rests upon the upright pivot in the center of the compass-bowl. noun
On the way; going; agoing; in motion: as, “set him agate again,” Lingua, iii. 6; “set the bells agate,” Cotgrave.
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. noun
A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. noun
A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. noun
A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing. noun
On the way; agoing adverb
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. noun
A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. noun
A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. noun
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.
The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5 1/2-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.
(usually in the plural) A testicle.
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