Index of English words, starting with "ag"

(1) - Agate (n.) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
(2) - Agate (n.) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
(3) - Agate (n.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
(4) - Agate (n.) 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.
(5) - Agate (adv.) On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.

(1) - Agave (n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

(1) - Age (v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
(2) - Age (v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.
(3) - Age (n.) A long time.
(4) - Age (n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.
(5) - Age (n.) A century; the period of one hundred years.
(6) - Age (n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(7) - Age (n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.
(8) - Age (n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.
(9) - Age (n.) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.
(10) - Age (n.) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
(11) - Age (n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
(12) - Age (n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
(13) - Age (n.) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.