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On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior.

To rove. Bp. Warburton.

Agate. [Obs.] Fuller.

To seek or search out. [Obs.]

Having plagæ, or irregular enlongated color spots.

ply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.

To oppose. [R.] Glanvill.

A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. Who has not been a runagate from duty Hare.

To vote or vote with. [Obs.] "Suffragating tribes." Dryden.

Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. "Mischiefs that I set abroach." Shak.

An agate. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

Containing or producing agates. Craig.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana.

Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

l cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

Having a treelike appearance. "An arborized or moss agate." Wright.

Having an axle; -- used in composition. Merlin's agate-axled car. T. Warton.