Crossword-Solution: AGATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Agate | adv. | On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. |
| Agate | n. | 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. |
| Agate | n. | A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. |
| Agate | n. | A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. |
| Agate | n. | A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AGATE | anagram | ATAGE, GAETA |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ANORCE
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with AGATE (5)
They made the half-mile at a quick trot, and as they ran the rocks and the sky and the air between the cliffs turned a turbid green, like the color in a moss agate.
Once home, he said to the genie: “Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones.
What took thee there?” “That Arthur!” “Oh—an’ what’s agate now?” “He’s only enlisted.” Morel put down his knife and leaned back in his chair.
Benches with mossy feet stood against the mossy edges of the path, and at its farther end it widened into a circle about a basin rimmed with stone, in which the opaque water strewn with leaves looked like a slab of gold-flecked agate.
Behind me I found the rest of the pack, with a newcomer added: a small black greyhound with pale agate-coloured eyes.
Quotes with AGATE (3)
With a chaste heart With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty Holding the leash of blood So that it might leap out and trace your outline Where you lie down in my Ode As in a land of forests or in surf In aromatic loam, or in sea music Beautiful nude Equally beautiful your feet Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound Your ears, small shells Of the splendid American sea Your breasts of level plentitude Fulfilled by living light Your flying eyelids of wheat Revealing or enclosing …
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.
He discovered wonderful stories, also, about jewels. In Alphonso's Clericalis Disciplina a serpent was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, and in the romantic history of Alexander, the Conqueror of Emathia was said to have found in the vale of Jordan snakes 'with collars of real emeralds growing on their backs.' There was a gem in the brain of the dragon, Philostratus told us, and 'by the exhibition of golden letters and a scarlet robe' the monster could be thrown into a mag…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 711 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).