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Tessera :: Tessera (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes..

Bonce :: Bonce (n.) A boy's game played with large marbles.

Marbrinus :: Marbrinus (n.) A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Alley :: Alley (n.) A choice taw or marble.

Marble :: Marble (n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper..

Ally :: Ally (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw..

Elgin Marbles :: Elgin marbles () Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin..

Liner :: Liner (n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding..

Quarry :: Quarry (v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble..

Marbling :: Marbling (n.) An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance..

Porphyry :: Porphyry (n.) A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles..

Marbleized :: Marbleized (imp. & p. p.) of Marbleiz.

Rabot :: Rabot (n.) A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.

Grain :: Grain (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc..

Veined :: Veined (a.) Full of veins; streaked; variegated; as, veined marble..

Marteline :: Marteline (n.) A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

Verd Antique :: Verd antique () A mottled-green serpentine marble.

Ambergris :: Ambergris (n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212¡ Fah

Marmoraceous :: Marmoraceous (a.) Pertaining to, or like, marble..

Scagliola :: Scagliola (n.) An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished..

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