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me 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.

Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.

Made of, or faced with, marble. [Obs.] "The marbled mansion." Shak.

To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.

One who works upon marble or other stone. [R.] Fuller.

Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.

To turn to marble; to harden. [Obs.] Thou dost emmarble the proud heart. Spenser.

To make hard as marble; to harden. [Obs.] Spenser.

A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

om a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of…

A choice taw or marble. Dickens.

See Alley, a marble or taw.

to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

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

Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.

An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

stals (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.

A boy's game played with large marbles.