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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..

Dendrachate :: Dendrachate (n.) Arborescent or dendritic agate.

Phassachate :: Phassachate (n.) The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.

Slander :: Slander (v. t.) To defame; to injure by maliciously uttering a false report; to tarnish or impair the reputation of by false tales maliciously told or propagated; to calumniate.

Ruby :: Ruby (n.) See Agate, n., 2..

Undulatory :: Undulatory (a.) Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves..

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..

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..

Delusion :: Delusion (n.) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

Populate :: Populate (v. i.) To propagate.

Refragate :: Refragate (v. i.) To oppose.

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A size of type, between agate and diamond..

Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it..

Traducible :: Traducible (a.) Capable of being derived or propagated.

Spread :: Spread (v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease..

Achate :: Achate (n.) An agate.

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..

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..

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

Agate :: 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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