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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Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the Christian religion..
Agatiferous :: Agatiferous (a.) Containing or producing agates.
Agaty :: Agaty (a.) Of the nature of agate, or containing agate..
Refragate :: Refragate (v. i.) To oppose.
Traducible :: Traducible (a.) Capable of being derived or propagated.
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..
Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (n.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava..
Disseminator :: Disseminator (n.) One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease..
Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle..
Sow :: Sow (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate..
Cryptogamia :: Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds..
Propagable :: Propagable (a.) Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production..
Aetheogamous :: Aetheogamous (a.) Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To generate; to produce.
Abroach :: Abroach (adv.) Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.
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..
Propagate :: Propagate (v. t.) To multiply; to increase.
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..
Agate :: Agate (adv.) On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate..
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..
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