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Azure. [Obs.] Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue, and emerald green. Milton.

e, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

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.

To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.

pass around, as information. Syn. -- circulate, circularize, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse. [WordNet 1.5]

ight be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different of…

The Russian variety of bagatelle.

or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

e of mankind, folly and ignorance. Shak. All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse. Milton. The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. -- Not worth a curse. See under Cress.

That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone. Prior.

Arborescent or dendritic agate.

bs 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.

One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

-- Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served. -- Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related genera; -- so called because i…

Eye agate. See under Eye.

nd a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle. Fortification agate, Scotch pebble.

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. [Formerly written graff.]

One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.