† 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.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 26 Her biþ eac ᵹemeted gagates: se stan biþ blæc gym. 1387 Trevisa 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. 1559 Morwyng Evonymus 290 Tile-stones, Gagate, Aumber. 1567 J. Maplet Gr. Forest 8 Gagates is of the precious sort also, which was first found in Sicilie in a certain floud called Gagatus. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 40/2 The Gagate..of which there are two kinds, the one russet colour and the other black. 1708 Brit. Apollo No. 101. 2/1 Gagates kindle in Water. |
2. Sometimes confused with agate (achates).
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Yorksh. iii. (1662) 185 The Agate, vastly distinct from Geat, is also named Gagates. |
3. attrib., in gagate stone.
| 1602 Warner 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. |