Definitionen
1.NounA semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
2.NounThe size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+⁄2-point.
3.NounOne fourteenth of an inch.
4.NounA diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
5.NounA tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
6.NounA marble made from agate.
7.NounA testicle.
8.AdverbOn the way; agoing.