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eturn for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. L'Estrange.

A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.] Halliwell. Bartlett.

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

y, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon. Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.

ate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.

A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.

the lucid orbs of heaven. Lucid, like a glowworm. Sir I. Newton. A court compact of lucid marbles. Tennyson.

ontaining fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections.

The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.

Containing, or resembling, marble.

A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries. Beck (Draper's Dict.).

The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa hæmatica). Hook-billed marlin, a curlew.

Pertaining to, or like, marble.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. [R.]

A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.

Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.

The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.

A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

ntion of. I will make mention of thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 16. And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of. Shak.