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noun, adjective, verb, -bled, -bling.| 1. | metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture. |
| 2. | any variety of this stone: Carrara marble. |
| 3. | an object made of or carved from this stone, esp. a sculpture: Renaissance marbles. |
| 4. | a piece of this stone: the fallen marbles of Roman ruins. |
| 5. | (not in technical use) any of various breccias or other stones that take a high polish and show a variegated pattern. |
| 6. | a marbled appearance or pattern; marbling: The woodwork had a greenish marble. |
| 7. | anything resembling marble in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc.: a brow of marble. |
| 8. | something lacking in warmth or feeling. |
| 9. | a little ball made of stone, baked clay, glass, porcelain, agate, or steel, esp. for use in games. |
| 10. | marbles, (used with a singular verb) a game for children in which a marble is propelled by the thumb to hit another marble so as to drive it out of a circle drawn or scratched on the ground. |
| 11. | marbles, Slang. normal rational faculties; sanity; wits; common sense: to have all one's marbles; to lose one's marbles. |
| 12. | consisting or made of marble. |
| 13. | like marble, as in hardness, coldness, smoothness, etc. |
| 14. | lacking in warmth, compassion, or sympathy: marble heart. |
| 15. | of variegated or mottled color. |
| 16. | to color or stain like variegated marble. |
| 17. | to apply a decorative pattern to (paper, the edges of a book, etc.) by transferring oil pigments floating on water. |
[mahr-buhl] | Alice, 1913–90, U.S. tennis player. |
| mar·ble (mär'bəl) n.
To mottle and streak (paper, for example) with colors and veins in imitation of marble. adj.
[Middle English, from Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Greek marmaros.] mar'bly adj. |
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.
