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gagátes
/ɣaɣa:tes /*
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gagátes
. l. gagates jet, at end for Lch. iii. l. Lch. ii., and add :-- Hér bið geméted gagates stán; sé bið swylce blæc gim, gif mon déð on fyr, nǽdran fleógaþ áweg ðone stenc gignit lapidem gagatem; est nigrogemmeus, et ardens igni admotus incensus serpentes fugat, Bd. 1, 1; Sch. 9. 5. [v. N. E. D. gagate.]
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gagátes
; indecl. m. The agate or jet, a precious stone; găgātes = γăγάτηs :-- Hér biþ eác geméted gagátes, se stán biþ blæc-gym here is also found the agate, the stone is a black gem, Bd. 1, 1; S. 473. 24. Sceaf gagátes dǽl ðæs stánes on ðæt wín shave off a part of the stone agate into the wine, L. M. 2, 65; Lchdm. ii. 296, 11. Be ðam stáne ðe gagátes hátte, is sǽd ðæt he viii mægen hæbbe of the stone which is called agate, it is said that it hath eight virtues, 2, 66; Lchdm. iii. 296, 29.
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