agate

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The usual material was some variety of ornamental stone--agate, jasper, rock-crystal, etc. There are two principal shapes, the one lenticular, the other elongated or glandular (Figs.

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  1. noun A fine-grained, fibrous variety of chalcedony with colored bands or irregular clouding.
  2. noun Games A playing marble made of agate or a glass imitation of it; an aggie.
  3. noun A tool with agate parts, such as a burnisher tipped with agate.

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  1. Middle English achate, agaten, from Old French acate, agate, alteration (influenced by Greek agathē, good) of Latin achātēs, from Greek akhātēs.

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  1. from Middle English on gate: on, English a, on; gate, English gate, way: see gate and gait.
  2. Early modern English aggat, agget, aggot, aggott, agat, agot, agath (= Dutch agaat = Swedish Danish agat), from Old French agate, later “agathe, an agate” (Cotgrave), modern F. agate = Provencal agathes, achates = Spanish Portuguese Italian agata = Middle High German G. achat, from Latin achates, from Greek ἀχάτης, an agate: so called, according to Pliny, because first found near the river )Αχάτης, in Sicily.
 

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