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.