agate
agate is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adverb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adverb. On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
- noun. A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
- noun. A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
- noun. A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
- noun. A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
- noun. an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
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