Word Meanings - GAGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Agate. Fuller.

FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
FULLERY
The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
AGATE
On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. Cotgrave.
GAGATE
Agate. Fuller.
RUNAGATE
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.
REFRAGATE
To oppose. Glanvill.
PLAGATE
Having plagæ, or irregular enlongated color spots.
PROPAGATE
akin to propages, propago, a layer of a plant, slip, shoot. See Pro-, 1. To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species
INDAGATE
To seek or search out.
EXTRAVAGATE
To rove. Bp. Warburton.
SUFFRAGATE
To vote or vote with. "Suffragating tribes." Dryden.
BAGATELLE
1. A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior. 2. A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.