Definition of agate

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

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Agate :: Agate (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..
Populate :: Populate (v. i.) To propagate.
Agate :: Agate (n.) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing..
Burnisher :: Burnisher (n.) A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses..
Disseminator :: Disseminator (n.) One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease..
Delusion :: Delusion (n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. i.) To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Achate :: Achate (n.) An agate.
Seedling :: Seedling (n.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like..
Bagatelle :: Bagatelle (n.) A trifle; a thing of no importance.
Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To generate; to produce.
Propagable :: Propagable (a.) Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production..
Ray :: Ray (n.) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree..
Runagate :: Runagate (n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
Extravagate :: Extravagate (v. i.) To rove.
Dendrachate :: Dendrachate (n.) Arborescent or dendritic agate.
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