Marmorean: alternatives and connections

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements.

A choice taw or marble.

See Alley, a marble or taw.

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granul…

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

The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so…

Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes…

A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a templ…

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.

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…

Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive be…

To turn to marble; to harden.

To make hard as marble; to harden.