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English Dictionary: agate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
agate
n
  1. an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Agate \Ag"ate\, n. [F. agate, It. agata, L. achates, fr. Gr.
      [?].]
      1. (Min.) 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.
  
      Note: The fortification agate, or Scotch pebble, the moss
               agate, the clouded agate, etc., are familiar varieties.
  
      2. (Print.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller
            than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
  
      Note: This line is printed in the type called agate.
  
      3. A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small
            figures cut in agate for rings and seals. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      4. A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so
            called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Agate \A*gate"\, adv. [Pref. a- on + gate way.]
      On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
      [Obs.] --Cotgrave.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chalcedony \Chal*ced"o*ny\ (k[acr]l*s[ecr]d"[osl]*n[ycr] or
      k[acr]l"s[esl]*d[osl]*n[ycr]; 277), n.; pl. {Chalcedonies}
      (-n[icr]z). [ L. chalcedonius, fr. Gr. CHalkhdw`n Chalcedon,
      a town in Asia Minor, opposite to Byzantium: cf.
      calc[82]doine, OE. calcidoine, casidoyne. Cf. {Cassidony}.]
      (Min.)
      A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having
      usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.
      [Written also {calcedony}.]
  
      Note: When chalcedony is variegated with with spots or
               figures, or arranged in differently colored layers, it
               is called {agate}; and if by reason of the thickness,
               color, and arrangement of the layers it is suitable for
               being carved into cameos, it is called {onyx}.
               {Chrysoprase} is green chalcedony; {carnelian}, a flesh
               red, and {sard}, a brownish red variety.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Agate, CO
      Zip code(s): 80101

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Agate
      (Heb. shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high
      priest (Ex. 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may
      be the agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized
      quartz, probably brought from Sheba, whence its name. In Isa.
      54:12 and Ezek. 27:16, this word is the rendering of the Hebrew
      cadcod, which means "ruddy," and denotes a variety of minutely
      crystalline silica more or less in bands of different tints.
     
         This word is from the Greek name of a stone found in the river
      Achates in Sicily.
     
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