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Agate

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Noun

1. agate

an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Agate

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noun
1. 
an impure microcrystalline form of quartz consisting of a variegated, usually banded chalcedony, used as a gemstone and in making pestles and mortars, burnishers, and polishers. Formula: SiO2
2. 
a playing marble of this quartz or resembling it
3. Also called: ruby printing, US and Canadian
(formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 51⁄2 point
adverb
Northern England dialect
on the way
noun
James (Evershed). 1877–1947, British theatre critic; drama critic for The Sunday Times (1923–47) and author of a nine-volume diary Ego (1935–49)

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Agate

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noun
1. 
a hard semiprecious stone, a variety of chalcedony, with striped or clouded coloring
2. 
any of various tools having agate parts, as a burnishing instrument with a tip of agate
3. 
a little ball made of this stone or of glass, used in playing marbles
4. 
a former small size of printing type, 51⁄2 points

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Agate

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n.
1. A fine-grained, fibrous variety of chalcedony with colored bands or irregular clouding.
2. A playing marble made of agate or a glass imitation of it; an aggie.
3. A tool with agate parts, such as a burnisher tipped with agate.
4. Printing A type size, about 5 1/2 points.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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