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
a piece or slab of this stone, used as a monument, inscribed record, etc.
a piece of sculpture in marble
anything resembling or suggesting marble in hardness, smoothness, coldness, coloration, etc.
a little ball of stone, glass, or clay, used in games
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
a marbled pattern; marbling
Slang mental soundness; sanity; wits: to lose one's marbles
adjective
made or consisting of marble
like marble in some way; hard, cold, smooth, white, etc., or streaked, mottled, etc.
a. A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture.
b. A piece of this rock.
c. A sculpture made from this rock.
Something resembling or suggesting metamorphic rock, as in being very hard, smooth, or cold: a heart of marble; a brow of marble.
Games
a. A small hard ball, usually of glass, used in children's games.
b. marbles(used with a sing. verb) Any of various games played with marbles.
marbles(used with a sing. verb)Slang Common sense; sanity: completely lost his marbles after the stock market crash.
Marbling.
transitive verbmar·bled, mar·bling, mar·bles
To mottle and streak (paper, for example) with colors and veins in imitation of marble.
adjective
Composed of metamorphic rock: a marble hearth.
Resembling metamorphic rock in consistency, texture, venation, color, or coldness.