AGATE

noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle French, from Latin achates, from Greek achatēs Date: 1570 a fine-grained variegated chalcedony having its colors arranged in stripes, blended in clouds, or showing mosslike forms, something made of or fitted with ~: as, a drawplate used by gold-wire drawers, a playing marble of ~, 3. a size of type approximately 5 1/2 point, condensed information (as advertisements or box scores) set especially in ~ type