Marble : (noun)
1: a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high
polish; used for sculpture and as building material
2: a small ball of glass that is used in various games
3: a sculpture carved from marble
(verb)
1: paint or stain like marble; "marble paper"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Limestone \Lime"stone`\ (l[imac]m"st[=o]n`), n.
A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate
of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and
is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone.
Crystalline limestone is called marble.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Marble : \Mar"ble\, a.
1. Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel;
marble paper.
2. Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Marble : \Mar"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Marbling.] [Cf. F. marbrer. See Marble, n.]
To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to
marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Marble : \Mar"ble\, n. [OE. marbel, marbre, F. marbre, L. marmor,
fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to sparkle, flash. Cf. Marmoreal.]
1. A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite,
capable of being polished and used for architectural and
ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black,
being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently
beautifully veined or clouded. The name 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.
Note:
Breccia marble consists of limestone fragments cemented
together.
Ruin marble, when polished, shows forms resembling ruins,
due to disseminated iron oxide.
Shell marble contains fossil shells.
Statuary marble is a pure, white, fine-grained kind,
including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble. If
coarsely granular it is called saccharoidal.
2. A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art,
or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of
such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the
Elgin marbles.
3. A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance,
used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a
child's game played with marbles.
Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds;
when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means,
hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as,
marble-breasted, marble-faced, marble-hearted.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Marble, CO (town, FIPS 48555)
Location: 39.07143 N, 107.18843 W
Population (1990): 64 (70 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 81623
Marble, MN (city, FIPS 40418)
Location: 47.32858 N, 93.29341 W
Population (1990): 618 (287 housing units)
Area: 11.2 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Marble, NC
Zip code(s): 28905
Marble, PA
Zip code(s): 16334
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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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.
Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:
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