a|gate

a|gate
ag|ate1 «AG iht», noun.
1. a kind of quartz with colored stripes, cloudy colors, or mosslike formations.
2. a marble used in games that looks like agate.
3. a piece of this quartz.
4. a burnisher, die plate, or other tool made of it.
5. U.S. a size of printing type (5½ point), called ruby in England. The term survives largely in the phrase agate line.
╂[< Old French agathe, alteration of acate, learned borrowing from Latin achātēs < Greek achātēs]
–ag´ate|like´, adjective.
a|gate2 «uh GAYT», adverb.
Scottish and Northern English. on the way; going.
╂[< a-1 on + obsolete gate way, path]

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