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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.
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Arborescent or dendritic agate.
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See Agate, n., 2.
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A variety of agate containing sard.
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On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
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A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.
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A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
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A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.
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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.
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A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
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A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
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A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
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A size of type, between agate and diamond.
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mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.
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Agate.
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Agate jasper.
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Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.
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The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.
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Eye agate. See under Eye.
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Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.
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