marble
marble adj
OFr < Lat. < Gk 'shining stone'.
- Stony; hard; solid; dense; shiny; polished; smooth like granite; [fig.] deadly, fatal; tomb-like.
- Cold; chilled; insensate; numb; paralyzed; seemingly lifeless.
- Etched; incised; engraved on stone; carved on a tomb.
- Phrase: “marble tea”: dishes; china; table setting; [fig.] floral arrangement; memorial flowers; tomb decorations.
marble [-s] n
see marble, adj.
- Crystallized limestone; smooth fine-grained calcified rock.
- Tomb; crypt; headstone; grave marker.
- Small glass ball used in games.