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Definition of: agate

(ag′it) noun
1. A variegated waxy quartz or chalcedony, SiO2, in which the colors are usually in bands.
2. A child's playing marble.
3. Printing 5 1/2 point type. See TYPOGRAPHY.
4. Any of several instruments, as the drawplate of gold-wire drawers.
5. Obs. A very diminutive person; in allusion to the figures cut upon agates for rings. [<F <L achates <Gk. achatēs <Achatēs, a river in Sicily]

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