marble

noun

1. a hard, crystalline or granular, metamorphic limestone, white or variously colored and sometimes streaked or mottled, which can take a high polish: it is much used in building and sculpture
2. 1. a piece or slab of this stone, used as a monument, inscribed record, etc.
   2. a piece of sculpture in marble
3. anything resembling or suggesting marble in hardness, smoothness, coldness, coloration, etc.
4. 1. a little ball of stone, glass, or clay, used in games
   2. a children's game in which a marble is propelled by the thumb at other marbles, usually in an attempt to drive them out of a marked circle
5. a marbled pattern; marbling
6. Slang mental soundness; sanity; wits: to lose one's marbles

Origin: ME marble, marbre < OFr marbre < L marmor < Gr marmaros, white stone, orig. boulder (meaning infl. by marmairein, to shine) < IE base *mer-, to rub > mare

adjective

1. made or consisting of marble
2. like marble in some way; hard, cold, smooth, white, etc., or streaked, mottled, etc.

transitive verb marbled, marbling