Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small image on the end of a lace. See aglet.

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Examples

  • Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his mind is: why, give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne’er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two-and-fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

    Act I. Scene II. The Taming of the Shrew 1914

  • a puppet or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne'er

    The Taming of the Shrew 1593

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