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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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Marteline :: Marteline (n.) A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

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

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..

Tuch :: Tuch (n.) A dark-colored kind of marble; touchstone.

Marmorosis :: Marmorosis (n.) The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble..

Marmoration :: Marmoration (n.) A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.

Marble :: Marble (n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper..

Knicker :: Knicker (n.) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing..

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

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

Grain :: Grain (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc..

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

Marbler :: Marbler (n.) One who colors or stains in imitation of marble.

Marble :: 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..

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..

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

Taw :: Taw (n.) A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles..

Entrochal :: Entrochal (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble..

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

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