- Sculpture material
- Small ball
- Small glass ball used in games
- Type of cake
- Variety of limestone
- 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.
- 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.
- A reddish variety of limestone.