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AGATE
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French
Old French jewel name, AGATE means "agate."
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English
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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Irish Greek
Kind.
Female
English
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
English : perhaps a variant of Agate.
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Tamil
Dawn
Biblical
rejoicing; mercy; linen
Female
Greek
(ÎÎμεσις) Greek name NEMESIS means "retribution; righteous anger." In mythology, this is the name of the goddess of justice and vengeance.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Lord of Fame
Biblical
Ramatha, raised; lofty
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Anglo Saxon
Venom.
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German
German : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Matte 1 + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.English and Dutch : occupational name for a maker of mats, from an agent derivative of Middle English matte, Middle Dutch mat ‘mat’.
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Hindu
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Cloud
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Arabic, Australian, Muslim, Pashtun
Shine Like a Star
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n.
The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.
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A variety of agate containing sard.
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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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Eye agate. See under Eye.
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Agate jasper.
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Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.
adv.
On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
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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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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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Arborescent or dendritic agate.
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A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
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mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.
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A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.
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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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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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Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.
n.
Agate.
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See Agate, n., 2.
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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 size of type, between agate and diamond.