Word Meaning

Meaning of "agates" and the crossword clue

- Banded gemstone
- Banded quartz
- Banded variegated semiprecious stone
- Chalcedony
- Decoratjve stone
- Quartz variety
- Silver consumed to produce gemstone
- Type of stone
- Variegated quartz
- Variety of quartz
- Playing marbles
- Semiprecious stones
- On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
- 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.
- A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
- A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
- A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.