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agate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Middle French agathe (16c.), from Latin achates , from Greek akhates , the name of a river in Sicily where the stones were found (Pliny). But the river could as easily be named for the stone.\n \nThe earlier English form of the word, achate ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
Usage examples of agate.
It was made out of a blend of cotton and silk, an airy material that Agate favored.
Cady had given her a stern lecture when Agate had told her of the encounter.
Cady said, and Agate was relieved to hear the acceptance in her voice.
Cady used the word often, and though Agate had never asked what it meant, she knew it was a derogatory word all the same.
His eyes were hard as flint rock when they swept her from head to toe, and Agate was sure they held no small amount of suspicion.
French, pulling a handgun from the pocket of his jack and pointing it first at the shopkeeper, then at Agate, and finally leveling it upon Alek.
Alek said dispassionately, watching Agate come forward out of the corner of his eye.
Among these were drawings of two small fragments of agate, inscribed with characters.
We were in great dismay, since there was no agate as raw material at hand.
Professor Romaine Newbold, who publishes this dream, explains that the professor had unconsciously reasoned out his facts, the difference of colour in the two pieces of agate disappearing in the dream.
Rani to meet her agate gaze, even though she knew she would pay for the insolence.
Instructor Morada gazed out at the marketplace, agate rage already grown cloudy beneath a bloodied stripe of stark white hair.
The glass wall surrounded a huge shallow pool filled with polished agate gravel.
Several of the beings pushed the agate gravel into new patterns, new contours.
Lelila and Rillao reached the center of the agate pool, directly beneath the highest point of the glass webwork.