Agate vs. Sardonyx

Agatenoun

A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

Agatenoun

The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

Agatenoun

One fourteenth of an inch

Agatenoun

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

Agatenoun

(countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

Agatenoun

(countable) A marble made from agate.

Agatenoun

A testicle.

Agateadverb

(obsolete) On the way; agoing.

Agateadverb

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

Agatenoun

A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

Agatenoun

A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.

Agatenoun

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

Agatenoun

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; - so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

Agatenoun

an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles

Agate

Agate () is a common rock formation, consisting of chalcedony and quartz as its primary components, consisting of a wide variety of colors. Agates are primarily formed within volcanic and metamorphic rocks.

Sardonyxnoun

A gemstone having bands of red sard; a variety of onyx or chalcedony.

Sardonyxnoun

(heraldry) A tincture of sanguine colour when the blazoning is done by precious stones.

Sardonyxnoun

A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.

Sardonyxnoun

an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral