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noun. A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture.

noun. A piece of this rock.

noun. A sculpture made from this rock.

noun. Something resembling or suggesting metamorphic rock, as in being very hard, smooth, or cold.

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noun. A small hard ball, usually of glass, used in children's games.

noun. Any of various games played with marbles.

noun. Common sense; sanity.

noun. Marbling.

transitive verb. To mottle and streak (paper, for example) with colors and veins in imitation of marble.

adjective. Composed of metamorphic rock.

adjective. Resembling metamorphic rock in consistency, texture, venation, color, or coldness.

To give an appearance of marble to; stain or vein like variegated marble: as, to marble paper; a book with marbled edges. See marbling, 3.

noun. Limestone in a more or less crystalline or crystalline-granular condition.

noun. A piece of sculptured or inscribed marble, especially if having some interest as an object of study or curiosity, and more particularly if ancient; any work of art in marble: as, the Elgin marblcs. -

noun. A little ball of marble or other stone, or of baked clay, porcelain, or glass, used by children in play; an alley. -

noun. In glassblowing, a block or thick piece of wood in which are formed hemispherical concavities, used in the manufacture of flasks, etc., to shape the fused glass gathered upon the end of the glass-blower's pipe into an approximately spherical form by pressing and turning it over in the concavities preparatory to the blowing. See marver. [In this sense improperly spelled marbel.] -5. Marble-silk.

noun. plural A venereal disease, probably bubo.

Consisting of marble: as, a marble pillar.

Veined or stained like marble; variegated in color; marbled.

Resembling or comparable to marble in some particular; hard and cold, crystalline, frigid, insensible, etc.

adjective. Made of, or resembling, marble

adjective. Cold; hard; unfeeling.

transitive verb. To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color.

noun. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.

noun. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works

noun. A little ball of glass, marble, porcelain, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

noun. A rock of crystalline limestone.

noun. A small spherical ball of rock, glass, ceramic or metal used in children's games.

verb. To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.

verb. To get the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.

verb. To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.

verb. To become interlaced with fat.

noun. a small ball of glass that is used in various games

noun. a sculpture carved from marble

verb. paint or stain like marble

noun. a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material

"I think part of the problem with finding an artist who works in marble is that it is not forgiving, and sort of pricey."

bird's-eye marble  calico marble  egyptian marble  entrochal marble  florentine marble  

marbled  marbling  

sculpture  stain  

garble  

alabaster  brick  bronze  clay  crystal  

Dalmatian  adamant  agate  alabaster  alley  

marbled  marbles  marbling