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† gagate Obs.
Also 1, 6–7 gagates, 4 gogathes.
[ad. L. gagātes, Gr. γαγάτης, said by Pliny to be derived from the name of the town Gagæ and river Gages in Lycia. An OF. form of the word has passed into Eng. as jet.]
1. Jet.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 26 Her biþ eac ᵹemeted gagates: se stan biþ blæc gym. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 337 Þere is i-founde a stoon þat hatte gogathes [v.r. gagates]. 14..Med. Receipts in Rel. Ant. I. 53 Tak a stane that es called a gagate. 1559Morwyng Evonymus 290 Tile-stones, Gagate, Aumber. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 8 Gagates is of the precious sort also, which was first found in Sicilie in a certain floud called Gagatus. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 40/2 The Gagate..of which there are two kinds, the one russet colour and the other black. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 101. 2/1 Gagates kindle in Water.
2. Sometimes confused with agate (achates).
a1661Fuller Worthies, Yorksh. iii. (1662) 185 The Agate, vastly distinct from Geat, is also named Gagates.
3. attrib., in gagate stone.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlvii. (1612) 220 Tush, in those times weare no such toyes as Gagate stones to trie, By foysting them in Potions, if a Maide had trode awrie. |