Agate

1. n. A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; — so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
2. adv. On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
3. 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.
4. n. A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
5. n. A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.