A very diminutive person. Shakespeare speaks of Queen Mab as no bigger than an agate-stone on the fore-finger of an alderman.
“I was never manned with an agate till now.”
Shakespeare: 2 Hen. IV. i. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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