marble : Idioms & Phrases
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andaman marble
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noun large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
Andaman marble; Diospyros kurzii; marblewood.
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elgin marbles
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noun a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and fragments of architecture created by Phidias; chiefly from the Parthenon in Athens
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El"gin mar"bles
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Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
Webster 1913
Green marble
- (
Min. ), serpentine.
Webster 1913
Ligneous marble
- wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.
Webster 1913
marble bones disease
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noun an inherited disorder characterized by an increase in bone density; in severe forms the bone marrow cavity may be obliterated
osteopetrosis; Albers-Schonberg disease.
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marble cake
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noun made of light and dark batter very lightly blended
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marble-edged
Mar"ble-edged` adjective
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Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.
Webster 1913
marble-wood
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noun hard marbled wood
marblewood.
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noun large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
Andaman marble; Diospyros kurzii; marblewood.
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Onyx marble
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noun a hard compact kind of calcite
oriental alabaster; alabaster; Mexican onyx.
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- a banded variety of marble or calcium carbonate resembling onyx. It is obtained from Mexico.
Webster 1913
petworth marble
Pet"worth mar"ble
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A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble .
