Sardachate: alternatives and connections

An agate.

On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

To convert into agate; to make resemble agate.

Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effl…

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals…

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…

A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…

The shank of a type, 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…

An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or r…

Arborescent or dendritic agate.

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of…