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Definition of Agates
1. agate [n] - See also: agate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agates
Literary usage of Agates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Small banded agates of much beauty abound on the shores of Lake Superior ; large
... agates abound in many other regions, while very many localities yield ..."
2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1877)
"MOST of our fashionable watering-places offer to the visitor an attractive display
of agates and other siliceous stones, worked into a vast variety of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"In most agates these siliceous minerals are arranged in alternating layers, ...
In other cases the agates may occur in the cavities of stratified rocks, ..."
4. Geological Travels by Jean André Luc (1811)
"In particular, he gives an account of a celebrated hill near Oberstein, at no
great distance from this spot, where the agates are found in such abundance, ..."
5. Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of the Economic Minerals of Canada by Geological Survey of Canada (1876)
"agates. 1. Michipicoten and St. Ignace Islands, Lake Superior ... Specimens of
agates, cut and polished. These agates occur on the south and north shores of ..."
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