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MARBLED
marbled, marbleized, marbleised
(adjective) patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble; “marbleized pink skin”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
marbled (comparative more marbled, superlative most marbled)
Composed of marble; having a marble exterior.
Having marbling.
Resembling marble.
(meat) Interlaced with fat.
Verb
marbled
simple past tense and past participle of marble
Anagrams
• blarmed, rambled
Source: Wiktionary
Mar"bled, a.
1. Made of, or faced with, marble. [Obs.] "The marbled mansion." Shak.
2. Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. "Marbled paper." Boyle.
3. (zoöl.)
Definition: Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.
MARBLE
Mar"ble, n. Etym: [OE. marbel, marbre, F. marbre, L. marmor, fr. Gr. 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.
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.
Mar"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Marbling.] Etym: [Cf. F. marbrer. See Marble, n.]
Definition: To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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