Marbler: alternatives and connections

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, a…

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having ex…

Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…

A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble,…

A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applie…

A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a t…

An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addiso…

One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artis…

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.

To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.

shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"

Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and sho…

According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for salvation.

The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. Th…