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English : topographic name for someone who lived ‘at the gate’, i.e. one of the gates of a medieval city. However, in northern counties, Middle English gate (from Old Norse gata) also meant ‘street’, and in some instances the surname may derive from this sense.Southern Italian : from the Greek personal name Agathē meaning ‘virtuous’, ‘honest’.Indian (Maharashtra); pronounced as ag-tay : Hindu (Brahman) name, from Marathi ag̣te ‘live coal’ (from Sanskrit agni ‘fire’).Thomas Agate, a native of Shipley in Yorkshire, settled in Sparta, NY, in the 1790s.
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Old French jewel name, AGATE means "agate."
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English jewelry name, derived from the Italian word cammeo, from either Arabic qamaa'il "flower buds" or Persian chumahan, CAMEO means "agate."
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English : perhaps a variant of Agate.
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Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.
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A variety of agate containing sard.
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Eye agate. See under Eye.
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See Agate, n., 2.
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A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.
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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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mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.
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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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Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.
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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 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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The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.
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A size of type, between agate and diamond.
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Agate.
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Arborescent or dendritic agate.
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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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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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Agate jasper.
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A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
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On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.