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Candelabrum :: Candelabrum (n.) A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple..

Porphyry :: Porphyry (n.) A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles..

Marbled :: Marbled (imp. & p. p.) of Marbl.

Rabot :: Rabot (n.) A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.

Vein :: Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation..

Veiny :: Veiny (a.) Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble..

Parthenon :: Parthenon (n.) A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art..

Cloudy :: Cloudy (n.) Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble..

Calcite :: Calcite (n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar..

Alley :: Alley (n.) A choice taw or marble.

Spikebill :: Spikebill (n.) The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa).

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

Marbler :: Marbler (n.) One who works upon marble or other stone.

Marbleized :: Marbleized (imp. & p. p.) of Marbleiz.

Stucco :: Stucco (n.) Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work..

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

Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model..

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

Fengite :: Fengite (n.) A kind of marble or alabaster, sometimes used for windows on account of its transparency..

Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil..

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