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Definition of marble

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Marble (n.) 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..

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Face :: Face (v. t.) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble..

Ally :: Ally (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw..

Marlin :: Marlin (n.) The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa haematica).

Marbling :: Marbling (n.) The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble..

Arundelian :: Arundelian (a.) Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624..

Bonce :: Bonce (n.) A boy's game played with large marbles.

Marmoraceous :: Marmoraceous (a.) Pertaining to, or like, marble..

Sculptor :: Sculptor (n.) Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast..

Liner :: Liner (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding..

Cipolin :: Cipolin (n.) A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Marble :: Marble (a.) Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper..

Marbling :: Marbling (n.) An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance..

Chisel :: Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue..

Anthraconite :: Anthraconite (n.) A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone..

Marble :: Marble (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles..

Marbled :: Marbled (a.) Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble.

Marble :: Marble (a.) Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart..

Grain :: Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine grain..

Enmarble :: Enmarble (v. t.) To make hard as marble; to harden.