Definition of agate

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

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Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments..
Seminate :: Seminate (v. t.) To sow; to spread; to propagate.
Nonpareil :: Nonpareil (a.) A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
Agate :: Agate (adv.) On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate..
Undulation :: Undulation (n.) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To generate; to produce.
Cockamaroo :: Cockamaroo (n.) The Russian variety of bagatelle.
Bagatelle :: Bagatelle (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player..
Ruby :: Ruby (n.) See Agate, n., 2..
Errorist :: Errorist (n.) One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.
Propagated :: Propagated (imp. & p. p.) of Propagat.
Aetheogamous :: Aetheogamous (a.) Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain..
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..
Body :: Body (n.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body..
Race :: Race (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
Graft :: Graft (n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon..
Mythologize :: Mythologize (v. i.) To construct and propagate myths.
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation..
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