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

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

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

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

Variegate :: Variegate (v. t.) To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors..

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

Barite :: Barite (n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Inequality :: Inequality (n.) Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc..

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..

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

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

Marmorated :: Marmorated (a.) Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with 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..

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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