marble
7 definitions found
marble - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Marble \Mar"ble\, a.
1. Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel;
marble paper.
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2. Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
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Marble \Mar"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Marbling.] [Cf. F. marbrer. See 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.
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Marble \Mar"ble\ (m[aum]r"b'l), n. [OE. marbel, marbre, F.
marbre, L. marmor, fr. Gr. ma`rmaros, fr. marmai`rein to
sparkle, flash. Cf. Marmoreal.]
1. 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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Note:
Breccia marble consists of limestone fragments cemented
together.
Ruin marble, when polished, shows forms resembling ruins,
due to disseminated iron oxide.
Shell marble contains fossil shells.
Statuary marble is a pure, white, fine-grained kind,
including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble. If
coarsely granular it is called saccharoidal.
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2. 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; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the
Elgin marbles.
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3. 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.
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Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds;
when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means,
hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as,
marble-breasted, marble-faced, marble-hearted.
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marble - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
marble
n 1: a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high
polish; used for sculpture and as building material
2: a small ball of glass that is used in various games
3: a sculpture carved from marble
v 1: paint or stain like marble; "marble paper"
marble - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Marble
as a mineral, consists of carbonate of lime, its texture varying
from the highly crystalline to the compact. In Esther 1:6 there
are four Hebrew words which are rendered marble:, (1.) Shesh,
"pillars of marble." But this word probably designates dark-blue
limestone rather than marble. (2.) Dar, some regard as Parian
marble. It is here rendered "white marble." But nothing is
certainly known of it. (3.) Bahat, "red marble," probably the
verd-antique or half-porphyry of Egypt. (4.) Sohareth, "black
marble," probably some spotted variety of marble. "The marble
pillars and tesserae of various colours of the palace at Susa
came doubtless from Persia itself, where marble of various
colours is found, especially in the province of Hamadan
Susiana." The marble of Solomon's architectural works may have
been limestone from near Jerusalem, or from Lebanon, or possibly
white marble from Arabia. Herod employed Parian marble in the
temple, and marble columns still exist in great abundance at
Jerusalem.
marble - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Marble, CO (town, FIPS 48555)
Location: 39.07143 N, 107.18843 W
Population (1990): 64 (70 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 81623
Marble, MN (city, FIPS 40418)
Location: 47.32858 N, 93.29341 W
Population (1990): 618 (287 housing units)
Area: 11.2 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Marble, NC
Zip code(s): 28905
Marble, PA
Zip code(s): 16334
marble - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
210 Moby Thesaurus words for "marble":
Dalmatian, adamant, agate, alabaster, antigorite, argent,
argentine, ball, band, bar, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble,
bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, billiard table, blocks, blotch, bone,
bony, bowling alley, bowling green, brick, bronze, butterfly,
candy cane, canescent, cast, cement, cemental, chalky, chameleon,
check, checker, checkerboard, cheetah, chessboard, chrysotile,
club, cockhorse, concrete, confetti, corneous, crazy quilt,
cretaceous, cricket bat, cue, dapple, dense, diamond, diamondlike,
doll, doll carriage, dot, dure, firedog, flake, flat, fleck,
fleecy-white, flint, flintlike, flinty, freckle, frosted, frosty,
gewgaw, gimcrack, glass, golf club, granite, granitelike, granitic,
grizzled, grizzly, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, harlequin,
heart of oak, hoar, hoary, hobbyhorse, horny, ice, iris, iron,
iron-hard, ironlike, ivory, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones,
jackstraws, jaguar, kickshaw, knickknack, lactescent, lapideous,
leopard, level, lily-white, lithoid, lithoidal, mackerel,
mackerel sky, maculate, mahogany, marbled paper, marbleize,
marblelike, marionette, marmoreal, mig, milky, mobile, moire,
mother-of-pearl, motley, mottle, nacre, nails, niveous, oak,
obdurate, ocelot, opal, ophite, osseous, paper doll,
patchwork quilt, peacock, pepper, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plane,
platinum, plaything, polychrome, polychromize, puppet, pure white,
racket, rag doll, rainbow, resistant, resistive, rock,
rocking horse, rocklike, rocky, satin, sculpture, serpentine,
serpentine marble, shot silk, silk, silver, silvered, silvery,
slide, smooth, snow-white, snowy, solid, spangle, speck, speckle,
spectrum, splotch, sport, spot, sprinkle, stabile, statue, steel,
steelie, steellike, steely, stigmatize, stipple, stone, stonelike,
stony, streak, striate, stripe, stud, swan-white, tattoo, taw,
teetotum, tennis court, terra cotta, tessellate, top,
tortoise shell, tough, toy, toy soldier, trinket, variegate, vein,
velvet, whim-wham, white, white as snow, zebra
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