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单词 marble
释义

marblen.adj.

Brit. /ˈmɑːbl/, U.S. /ˈmɑrbəl/
Forms:

α. Middle English marbir, Middle English marbra, Middle English maubre, Middle English–1600s marbre, 1500s marber, 1500s marbyr; Scottish pre-1700 maber, pre-1700 mabre, pre-1700 marbir, pre-1700 marbre, pre-1700 marbyr, pre-1700 maubre, pre-1700 myrber.

β. Middle English marbel, Middle English marbelle, Middle English marbil, Middle English marbille, Middle English marbole, Middle English marboll, Middle English marbulle, Middle English marbylle, Middle English merbel, Middle English merbyl, Middle English–1500s marbell, Middle English–1500s marbill, Middle English–1500s marbul, Middle English–1500s marbull, Middle English–1500s marbyl, Middle English–1500s marbyll, Middle English–1500s merbyll, Middle English– marble; Scottish pre-1700 marball, pre-1700 marbell, pre-1700 marbil, pre-1700 marbile, pre-1700 marbill, pre-1700 marbyl, pre-1700 marbyll, pre-1700 merbell, pre-1700 merbill, pre-1700 merbyll, pre-1700 1700s– marble.

For regional forms see Eng. Dial. Dict., Sc. National Dict. s.vv., and marl n.4 (also marley n., marloes n.), marvel n.2
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French marbre.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman marbre, Old French marbre, malbre, maubre, mabre (c1050) < classical Latin marmor < ancient Greek μάρμαρος shining stone, marble (of uncertain origin, but popularly related to μαρμάρεος flashing, gleaming, and μαρμαίρειν to sparkle: see mere v.1). Compare Old Occitan, Occitan marme (c1220), marbre (13th cent.; also Occitan malbre), Catalan marbre (13th cent.), Spanish mármol (c1250), Portuguese mármore (late 13th cent.), Italian marmo (c1308), Romanian marmură.The Latin word was adopted early into the Germanic languages: Old English marma (in compounds also marm- : see marm-stone n.), marmor- , marmel- (only in the compound marmorstān , marmelstān : see marmor n.), Old High German marmul , murmul (Middle High German marmel , mermel , German Marmor (the stone), Murmel (as a toy; compare sense A. 11a)), Middle Dutch marmer , marmel (more commonly marber , marbel < Old French; Dutch marmer (the stone), marmel (as a toy, now archaic; compare sense A. 11a)), Old Icelandic marmari , Old Swedish malmare , (in compounds) malmar- , marmer- , marmor- (Swedish marmor ). The change of marbre , marber to marbel appears to be a Middle English development (although it clearly reflects a pattern of dissimilation evident in nearly all of the Germanic borrowings listed above). The form marbele occurring as a gloss on Latin marmor in a 13th- or 14th-cent. manuscript could be English or Anglo-Norman, and Anglo-Norman evidence for β. forms is otherwise 14th or 15th cent.: the possibilities of the influence of the Middle English form on later Anglo-Norman, or simply of parallel development, cannot therefore be excluded. No evidence of such a change in the dialects of French is presented in Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch, although compare the Old French form malbre with the reverse dissimilation. The allusion in sense A. 13 is probably to the game (sense A. 11a), although the precise development is not clear. In the late 19th cent. the discomposure of a boy who has lost his marbles appears to have been to a certain extent proverbial. Compare:1886 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 26 Aug. 4/1 He has roamed the block all morning like a boy who had lost his marbles.1888 Chicago Tribune 16 Dec. 27/6 No boy ever lost his marbles more irrevocably out of a ragged pocket than you and I will lose our self-respect and our dignity if we remain to take part in a wordy discusssion that ends in a broil.1892 Littell's Living Age 10 Sept. 682/2 When he read his father's..letters, he felt more inclined to cry than he had done since he was a little lad and lost a favorite marble.Perhaps compare also the following use, apparently in the sense ‘to lose one's temper’:1897 Evening Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 15 June 6/3 I saw the body and I thought that King had been caught in the machinery and cut all to pieces. Then I lost my marbles completely.
A. n.
I. Senses relating to the stone.
1.
a. Limestone that has been recrystallized by metamorphism and is capable of taking a polish; esp. one that is pure white or has a mottled surface, such as is often used in sculpture and architecture. Also more generally: any stone that will take a polish and can be used for decorative purposes in building or sculpture.
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c1180 Notes to Hexateuch (Claud. B.iv) in A. N. Doane & W. P. Stoneman Purloined Lett. (2011) 32 Josephus cwæð, ane [pillar] of marbra, oðra of ysodene tihele.
c1300 St. Nicholas (Laud) 315 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 249 In one toumbe of Marbre he was i-leid.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 3666 (MED) A tumbe riche..Of marbre and ek of jaspre stones.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) v. 239 Off marbyr gude Wytht syment lyme or wytht hewyn stane He made the wallis.
1562 in J. Robertson Inuentaires Royne Descosse (1863) 55 Ane figure of a manis heid maid of maber.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxv A great bridge of stone of Marbre.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxviii. 227 The most durable Marbre or Porphyr.
β. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 145 (MED) [Mary Magdalene] nam ane box ȝemaked of marbelstone.c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 4609 (MED) A faire chapel of marbel fin.?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 341 (MED) Of marble is þe stone, & purtreied þer he lies.?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) iii. 9 All þe pilers er of marbill.1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iv. 110 Also colde and harde as marbill.1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fvv Ouer this ryuer is a very fayre bridge of marble.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 162 All the pauement is most beautifull of ingrauen Marble.1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 270 Not to mention what a huge Column of Granite, Serpentine, or Porphyry must have cost... It is well known how these sorts of Marble resist the Impressions of..Instruments.1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. ii. 40 From the portico they passed a noble hall to a staircase of marble.1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 46 Marble..lasts quite as long as granite, and is much softer to work.1916 Bull. U.S. Bureau of Mines No. 106. 122 Marble is used for foundation stone and retaining walls.1974 M. Ayrton Midas Consequence viii. 187 The Greeks punched out marble in the whitest and clearest light on earth and at their best, before the steel chisel was invented, they splintered it out in particles so that the bruised stone ate the light in minute facets.1988 S. Afr. Panorama May 24/2 The alternative was built-in art or clever devices..like painting concrete pillars to look like genuine marble.
b.
(a) With distinguishing word denoting colour, appearance, or composition.breccia, fire, green, landscape, madrepore marble, etc.: see the first element.
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c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1893 A gate of marbul whit.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 8288 (MED) Vnder þis tre..A stapul was o marbul grai.
a1500 (a1450) Partonope of Blois (BL Add.) (1912) 916 On euery syde howsyngestronge Off blacke marbell full well I-bake.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. i A harde slipperie rocke of black marber.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 126 No place hath more white and blew Marble than here.
1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxvi, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) The Marble gentle, viz. the whitest hard marble..Serpentine or streaked Marble [etc.].
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 21 Black Marble.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 275 The rest are coped stones, all of grey marble.
1850 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 3) 208 Fire marble or lumachelle is a dark brown shell marble.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 June 11/3 The entrance hall and corridor walls are faced with polished Piastraccia and Swedish green marble.
1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) x. 240 In altered dolomites the magnesian silicates form before the lime combines, and we have not only serpentine marble but tremolite marble, diopside marble, phlogopite marble, talcose marble, and even garnet marble.
1991 G. MacBeth Another Love Story ix. 73 At one end there was a very graceful black marble fire surround.
(b) With distinguishing word denoting the locality in which it is found.Carrara, Connemara, Florentine marble, etc.: see the first element.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. i. 499 Foure goodly pillars of Hymettian Marble [L. Hymettii marmoris, Fr. (Du Pinet 1562) marbre Hymettien].
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. vi. 316 Two pieces of Ægyptian Marble... A Piece of the worst sort of Cornish Marble, used for Lime.
1727–41 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Derbyshire Marble is variously clouded and diversified with brown.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 20 The white Genoese Marble.
1883 Cent. Mag. 811/2 The semicircular colonnade was ornamented with columns of breccia or ‘pudding stone’, with capitals of white Italian marble.
1991 New Yorker 13 May 31/1 There are all these specific kinds of marble that come from the quarries up and down the Hudson—Hastings-on-Hudson marble, Sing Sing marble.
(c) With distinguishing word: a substance resembling or made to imitate marble.brimstone, marezzo, metallic marble, etc.: see the first element.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Brimstone Brimstone Marble, a preparation of brimstone in imitation of marble.
1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Marble Metallic marble, native sulphate of barium.
1964 J. S. Scott Dict. Building 201 Marezzo marble, an artificial marble like scagliola, which differs from it mainly in having no chips of added coloured material.
c. figurative. As a type of something hard, inflexible, durable, or smooth.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [noun] > typical smooth thing
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1586 G. Whitney Choice of Emblemes 183 In marble harde our harmes wee alwayes graue.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 144 The Milke thou suckst from her did turne to Marble . View more context for this quotation
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 638 Writing all injuries in marble.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. ii. 50 Hee plyes her hard, and much Raine weares the Marble . View more context for this quotation
1620 Swetnam Arraigned by Women sig. G4v Can you behold this sacred Cabinet,..And not let fall a teare: you are vnkind. Not Marble but would wet at such a sight.
1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 134 I have no conscience of Marble to resist the hammer of more heavy offences.
1812 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vi. 219 Sir Charles Grandison..is a man of marble, or rather a man of snow.
1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 64 The liquid marble of the windless lake.
1886 M. E. Braddon One Thing Needful ix She had done all in her power to deter Clarice;..but Clarice had made up her mind to be a marchioness, and she was marble.
1898 Argosy Apr. 21 He was a walking ready reckoner, with a memory of graven marble.
2003 koigokoro.net 23 July (O.E.D. Archive) ‘Celes? You any better judge? She looked a little like you.’ ‘She was marble, Locke. Should I be offended?’
2.
a. A piece, block, or slab of marble; a marble monument, statue, or sculpture; †a marble vessel (obsolete).
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c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2118 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 167 (MED) Þe point of is swerd brak In þe Marbre ato.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 5701 (MED) To a gret holw marbre was he broȝt..Whych was wonyd beo fillid wyþ wyn.
1526 Grete Herball xl. sig. Civ/2 Whan thou wyll wyte yf they be soden ynough, lay a lytell of it vpon a marble, and lete it coole.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg5 The soueraine weede betwixt two marbles plaine Shee pownded small.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 186 The vacant Stayre-case, Marbles, Statues [etc.].
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 217 That..Toro of Amphion, and Dirces..is to be valued beyond all the marbles of the World, both for its antiquity and workmanship.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 209 Some dry their Corn infected with the Brine, Then grind with Marbles, and prepare to dine.
1742 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Antiq. Rome iv, in tr. A. Palladio Architecture (ed. 3) II. 62 An Inscription on a Marble.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. x. 234 You see..the blackened walls and the blood stained marbles, to this day.
1894 T. F. Robley Hist. Bourbon County, Kansas 3 His countrymen will place his statue the very next to Washington's in the line of historic marbles.
1991 Jrnl. Hist. of Collections 3 121/2 Analysis of casts, in comparison with the marbles from which they derive, has revealed the kinds of choices he made.
b. In plural. Archaeology. A collection of sculptures made of marble. Arundel (also Arundelian, Oxford) marbles n. a collection of sculptures and inscribed stones made by the Earl of Arundel (died 1646) and presented to the University of Oxford (the inscriptions in 1687, the sculpture in 1755). See also Elgin Marbles n.
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Arundel (also Arundelian, Oxford) marblesa1684
Elgin Marbles1809
1624 J. Selden (title) Marmora Arundelliana siue saxa Græcè incisa.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 429 No wonder if his bowels be enchased in marble after his death, who in his life time, loued marbles..with his whole bowels. His Marmora Arondeliana, commented vpon by learned Mr. Selden, shew this sufficiently.
1676 H. Prideaux (title) Marmora Oxoniensia, ex Arundellianis, Seldenianis, aliisque conflata.]
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1667 (1955) III. 495 To Lond: & with Mr. Hen: Howard of Norfolck: of whom I obtained the gift of his Arundelian Marbles.
1727–41 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Arundel Marbles,..or the Oxford Marbles.
1817 C. Wright (title) The Antiquities and description of Arundel Castle, Sussex, a biograpical sketch of the lives of the Earls of Arundel, and Dukes of Norfolk, from the year 987 to 1817, with an account of the Arundelian marbles.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 142/1 The Æginetan, added to the Athenian, and Phigaleian marbles which we possess in the British Museum, would have formed a complete specimen of Grecian sculpture, as applied to the decoration of temples.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 190 I pardoned high park-fences, when I saw that..these have preserved Arundel marbles, Townley galleries,..and breeds of cattle elsewhere extinct.
1991 Jrnl. Hist. of Collections 3 149/2 He would have carried out this commission in the years before his restoration of the Farnese marbles.
†3. As a count noun: a tomb or tombstone made of marble. Also as a mass noun (poetic): marble as being the material of which a tomb or tombstone is made. Obsolete.
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?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 230 (MED) At Westmynstere he lis toumbed richely, In a marble bis of him is mad story.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. I.iijv In the felde of Elinos, vnder a marble, is the pouders of Sysifo Seteno.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 434 When I am forgotten..And sleepe in dull cold Marble . View more context for this quotation
1640 H. Glapthorne Ladies Priviledge iv. sig. Giv My Ancestors, whose dust, Would 'a broke through the Marbles, to revenge To me this fatall infamy.
1730 A. Pope in Daily Post-boy 22 Oct. The modest Stone, what few vain Marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an Honest Man.
1759 T. Gray Epit. Tomb-stone in Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 485 Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A friend, a wife, a mother, sleeps.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxv. 92 Thy marble bright in dark appears. View more context for this quotation
4.
†a. A mottled or dappled colour resembling that of variegated marble; (also) a cloth of such a colour. Cf. sense B. 2. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [noun] > marbling
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > multicoloured
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Baruch vi. 71 Of the purpre and marble [L. purpura..et murice] that thei [sc. idols] holden aboue hem, ȝee shuln wite also, for thei ben no goddis.]
1428 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) X. 391 (MED) Pro Rege Portugaliæ..Duas Pecias Coloris de Marble.
1446 in P. E. Jones Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1954) V. 94 (MED) [Two cloths called] Marbelles.
1520 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 274 Pro xiij virg. panni lanei coloris marble.
1539 Arch. Clothworkers' Co. (MS) 54 For the fine of ij marbelles..ijs vjd.
1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 18 Kerseies..of the colours of black, marble, russet, and white.
1549 Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI c. 2 §1 Russets, Musters, Marbles, Grayes, Royes, and suche lyke colors.
1555 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 86 A yard of marble xxd.
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. xxix. 245/1 In a Livery of gray Marble.
b. Bookbinding. A marbled pattern or paper used in ornamenting books.
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1699 H. Wanley Let. 25 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 277 In knowing what sort of Paper is in use,..or to please myself..with looking on the fine colors, marbles, &c.
1817 T. F. Dibdin Bibliogr. Decameron II. 532 In lieu of gilt, you may..order marble coloured edges: but gilt upon the marble—oh! 'tis the very luxury—the ‘ne plus ultra’ of the bibliopegistic art!
1823 Bookbinder's Compl. Instructor 30 Egyptian Marble..Purple Marble..Stone Marble.
1823 Bookbinder's Compl. Instructor 31 Rice Marble..Chinese Marble..Red Marble.
1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia ii. 73 There are three sorts of ornaments upon the covers of books..; viz. marbles, sprinkles, and uniform tints.
1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia ii. 76 A few drops of potash liquid..will..produce better effect, the marble being rendered more distinct.
1952 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper (ed. 2) 156 Figured or ‘flower’ marble is produced by dropping spots of colour in a regular manner..on the natural thrown pattern.
5. A kind or variety of marble.
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1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1672) ii. 119 That this rocky Substance is a Loadstone, rather than a Jaspis, Adamant, Marble, or any other.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. i. 5 The east side of it within is wainscotted with jasper and beautiful marbles.
1813 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. iii. 73 Very beautiful marbles occur [in England] which will receive a high polish.
1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks iii. 20 Limestones..capable of receiving a polish are called marbles.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Feb. 22/2 The church we enter today was utterly transformed by the late-Renaissance popes who began to revet its white interior with colored marbles in 1575.
†6. Specialized uses. [Chiefly after spec. uses of French marbre (1642 of a marble slab upon which paints are ground, although only 1765 of a slab on which blown glass is shaped; 1522 of a printer's imposing-stone).]
a. A slab of marble on which something can be worked; esp. one on which paints are ground, or on which blown glass is shaped (cf. marver n.). Obsolete.
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1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxvi. 474 The reducing of any thing into a fine powder, by grynding it on a Marble.
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 466 Which they grind upon a Marble, such as Painters use.
a1700 Alchemical MSS (Royal Coll. Physicians, Edinb.) in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue v, at Marbre Spanish salt..massine it vpon a marbre very small.
1745 D. De Coetlogon Universal Hist. Arts & Sci. II. 3 To give it [sc. the glass] a Polish, we roll it to and fro on a Stone, or Marble.
b. A printer's imposing-stone. Obsolete.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1390/1 Marble, a printer's imposing-stone.
†7. [After post-classical Latin marmor, from 4th cent. used for various diseases of horses. It is uncertain whether a related use is shown in T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (1883) 84 ‘Marrables, lumps containing worms, &c., found on the backs of horses, cows, &c.’] A hard swelling associated with a leg joint of a horse. Obsolete.
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1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 190 Oftentimes in the knees or joints there arises either a Phlegmon, or Marbles, or Puffs or Wind-galls.
8. Skiing. = marble crust n. at Compounds 2.
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1924 Tourist Winter Sports No. 12/2 Marble, a snow~crust formed by alternate freezing and thawing. Found on Southern slopes.
II. Senses based on sound similarities with foreign words unrelated to marble.
†9. In plural. [Probably after Middle French morbilles ‘the small pockes’ (Cotgrave; attested from 15th cent.; < post-classical Latin morbilli morbilli n.), through the similarity of sound.] More fully French marbles (French marbles at French adj. 4). Syphilis. Obsolete.
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1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. C4 Looke into the Spittles and Hospitalles, there you shall see men diseased of the Frenche Marbles.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D4 Neither doe I frequent whorehouses to catch the marbles.
10. In plural. slang. [After French meubles (see meuble n.), through the similarity of sound.] Furniture, movables, personal effects; possessions, goods. Hence also: money, cash; stakes.
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1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 176 Marbles, furniture, movables; ‘money and marbles’, cash and personal effects.
1867 A. Trollope Claverings II. vi. 67 She won't get any money from me, unless I get the marbles for it.
1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 280/1 Marbles,..furniture; moveables. Money and marbles = cash and effects. [From Fr. meubles]. Hence, any substantial quid pro quó. English synonyms. Belongings; household gods; lares and penates; moveables; sticks; sprats, slows; traps.
1913 A. F. Irvine My Lady of Chimney-corner 80 Poor craithers who haave naither mate, money, nor marbles, nor chalk t' make th' ring.
1949 W. R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle 80 I've got no choice when you're playing for those kind of marbles.
1972 B. Jackson In Life 29 We have always defined out of the moral scheme those whose marbles we wanted.
III. A little ball.
11.
a. A little ball made originally of marble and now usually of glass, porcelain, baked clay, etc., used in a children's game; (in plural) the game itself. Occasionally: a similar ball (for example of glass) used in other games. Also (in extended use): any object of similar size and shape.In the classic game of marbles, the players take turns at shooting their own marble, with finger and thumb, at marbles inside a ring, trying to knock the marbles out of the ring to win them.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun]
marble1681
marloes1827
mig1886
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long johns1970
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble
marble1681
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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. iii. 233 An orbicular Indian peas. A large one, sc. ¾ of an inch Diametre..not unlike the little round stones wherewith Children play, called Marbles.
1694–5 J. Houghton Coll. Improvem. Husb. No. 189 (1727) II. 29 The next are marbles for boys to play with.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 112. ⁋3 A Game of Marbles, not unlike our modern Taw.
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 142 On yon gray stone..we shot the marble thro' the ring.
1866 R. Chambers Ess. 2nd Ser. 3 There was the floor on which..I had played at marbles, a pattern in the carpet serving as the ring.
1885 New Bk. Sports 301 Marbles is not the popular game it once was.
1916 E. H. Porter Just David xxiii. 284 His bed quite groaned with toys and books and games brought for his diversion,..from..‘Waverley Novels’ to little crippled Jimmy Clark's bag of marbles.
1958 R. K. Narayan Guide i. 13 I had marbles, an iron hoop to roll.
1976 Liverpool Echo 22 Nov. 8/4 Many's the time I've played marbles all the way from Upper Warwick Street to Prince's Park.
a1990 P. Leith Confident Cooking No. 26 Fish & Shellfish f. 25v/2 Chill any firm pate mixture. Scoop it into round marbles.
b. New Zealand and Australian slang. to make one's marble(s) good: to make a good impression on a person, to ingratiate oneself, to improve one's position.
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1898 in H. Orsman N.Z. Dict. (1997) 483/1 I always made my marbles good with Cookie [sc. the cook at a bush camp] by cutting up firewood.
1909 N.Z. Truth 15 May 7 He ‘made his marble good’, he alleged, by paying up a score he owed.
c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 31 Some tap the boss before they join,..By this they make their marble good.
1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target iii. 26 I was making my marble good.
1947 D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 206 The crowd..wanted to see if he could make his marble good with us.
1963 D. Crick Martin Place 223 Take my tip, if you wanter make your marble good: say nothing.
1968 G. Slatter Pagan Game 163 Making his marble good with the missus.
c. Australian slang. to hand (also chuck, throw) in one's marble: to die, to give up. to pass in one's marble: see pass v.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
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to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
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to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
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to end one's days?a1439
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to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
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to change one's lifea1470
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to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
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to pick over the perch1532
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to die the death1535
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to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
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to go offa1616
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to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
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to die off1697
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to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
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vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
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to slip one's cable1751
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to pop off the hooks1764
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to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
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to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Oct. 15/1 On one was a man who had just handed in his marble; on the other was his..friend, bemoaning the loss of his pal.
1924 Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Throw in the marble, to relinquish.
1927 F. C. Biggers Bat-eye 33 An' we was beat. We chucked our marble in an' 'ad to wait.
d. U.S. slang. to pick up the marbles and variants: to carry off the honours, to win (easily); to be proved correct.
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1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 12/1 Pick up the marbles, you win, you are right.
1973 E. Walkup & O. Otis Race i. iii. 25 It don't make bad sense, I mean, if you're not counting on picking up all the marbles.
1986 New Yorker 7 July 71/2 Cruz and Robelo are worried that Calero would pick up all the marbles if they make it to Managua.
1988 G. Keillor We are still Married (1990) 7 My team, the world-champion Minnesota Twins, are top dogs who look like a lead-pipe cinch to take all the marbles in a slow walk.
e. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to pick up one's marbles and go home and variants: to withdraw from an activity, esp. prematurely or petulantly after having suffered a setback.
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1929 C. MacArthur War Bugs 29 They implied that war wasn't any good and advised us to pick up our marbles and go home.
1975 Audubon Mar. 60/1 Once again from Reserve came ominous hints that if it cannot have its way, that if it must abate the discharge on anyone's terms other than its own, then perhaps it might pick up its marbles and go home to Middletown, leaving its 3,200 workers to the vicissitudes of unemployment and public assistance.
1983 W. N. Rowe Clapp's Rock xvii. 293 Neil Godwin is just a little sooky baby, that's all, who doesn't have the guts to take a bad defeat, and is now picking up his marbles and going home because his political career is in tatters.
1990 Times 20 June 13/1 We aren't going to pick up our marbles and go home.
f. South African slang. to polish one's marble: to attempt to ingratiate oneself (with another). Cf. sense A. 11b.
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1938 A. M. Brown Let. 15 Apr. in E. Partridge Dict. Slang (1961) II. 1179/1 A word I have heard used in the Cape [Province], mostly from people attending Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, is marble. Examples are: ‘His marble is high’—he is ‘well-in’ (with such-and-such a person).‘He is polishing his marble with so-and-so’ = he is trying to ingratiate himself.
1984 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East, Afr. & Lat. Amer. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 14 Aug. ME/7721/B/1 The former is undoubtedly polishing his marble..in anticipation of being nominated as the next OAU Chairman.
2012 H. Hamann Days of Generals x. Pik has that craze to take the president to whichever country he can and I think at that stage he was polishing his marble.
12. In plural. slang. Testicles.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > testicle or testicles
bollockeOE
codOE
stone1154
balla1325
cullionc1386
genitoriesa1387
pendantsa1400
bollock stone?a1425
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dimissariesa1513
dowsetc1560
pill1608
bauble1654
Aaron's bells1681
nutmegs1690
codlings?1691
testis1704
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nut1865
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gooly1937
nad1964
cojones1966
nadgers1967
noonies1972
a1866 E. Sellon New Epicurean (1875) 81 Then at it he went in good style, little Agnes behind him tickling his marbles.
1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I. 197 Marbles, the testes.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang at Marbles Testicles: low: C 19–20.
1953 C. Brossard Bold Saboteurs 92 I will grab him by his marbles down there and threaten to change him into a girl.
1979 R. Dahl My Uncle Oswald xxv. 216 As I got out of the car and hobbled toward the front-door, my marbles were still on fire and throbbing like the devil's drum.
1992 R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit 121 Marble Halls, balls (testicles). Always shortened to marbles.
13. In plural. colloquial (originally North American). Mental faculties; brains; common sense. Usually in to lose one's marbles, to have (also not have) all one's marbles, and variants.
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the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > intellectual powers
five witsc1200
wits1362
inwitc1380
spiritsc1450
fifteen wits1606
intellectuals1615
intellects1649
furniture1788
plant1861
marbles1902
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [noun]
witc1175
sensea1382
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mother witc1475
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common sense1536
philosophy1557
good sense?1562
sconce1567
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gumption?1719
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marbles1902
gump1920
loaf1925
1902 G. V. Hobart It's up to You 64 I see-sawed back and forth between Clara J. and the smoke-holder like a man who is shy some of his marbles.
1927 Amer. Speech 2 360 Marbles, doesn't have all his (verb phrase), mentally deficient. ‘There goes a man who doesn't have all his marbles.’
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 75/1 Marbles, the brain.
1957 M. Millar Soft Talkers i. 7 She's a fattish little hausfrau with some of her marbles missing.
1958 P. G. Wodehouse Cocktail Time xvii. 148 Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
1969 J. Wainwright Take-over Men i. 8 You lost your goddam' marbles? You gone completely crazy, you nutty slob?
1973 Ottawa Jrnl. 6 Feb. 9/4 ‘I still have most of my marbles,’ he said cheerfully.
1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 101 Mother was studying me with real concern, as if I had lost my marbles.
B. adj.
1. Made out of marble.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [adjective] > made of marble
marbryn1319
marblea1382
marmoreal1825
marmorean1902
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [adjective] > marble
marblea1382
Pentelic1579
marblya1620
marmoreous1709
Pentelician1741
picturesque1762
marmoraceous1822
Pentelican1850
Lucullan1857
Connemara1861
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Esther i. 6 Þei weren vndersett with marbil pileeris.
a1450–1509 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (A-version) (1913) 6242 He leet make a marbyl ymage.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 38 This story is payntit jn mony placis, and namely jn publik placis jn marbir stane.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 8 Suche stately dwellinges and marble floores.
1591 Crawford Mining Papers i All and hail the quarreys of maber stanis.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 437 Sustayn'd by 36 marble Columns.
1716 Boston News-let. 26 Nov. 2/2 (advt.) The best Levant Coffee, Bohea Tea,..Marble Hearths, Marble Mortars, and Holland Wares.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 78 Take a Quart of Almonds..and beat them in a Marble Mortar.
1775 J. Wedgwood Let. 20 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 175 They now give nine or ten guineas for Marble Cisterns.
1833 N.-Y. as it Is 12 The style of building, with granite and marble fronts to the basements, has been recently introduced, and is now almost uniformly adopted in the erection of warehouses.
1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems ii. 88 Her flush'd feet glow on the marble floor.
1925 J. Conrad Suspense i. i. 1 A..glow flushed the fronts of marble palaces.
1987 Sunday Express Mag. 10 May 43/1 The red dome and white marble tower of the cathedral are glittering.
2. Patterned like marble; mottled, dappled, variegated; decorated with marbling; made of cloth, etc., of such a pattern (cf. sense A. 4a). Frequently in marble-coloured adj., marble-covered adj., marble-edged adj. †Occasionally used predicatively.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > marbled
marblea1450
marblya1450
marbled1629
marly1721
marbleized1851
the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective] > marbled > artificially
marbled1667
marble1703
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 34 Take a lytyl Saunderys & a lytyl Safroun, & make it a marbyl coloure.
1539 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 91 To William Cay my marbill jacket.
1545 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 230 My marbell colered cote.
1591 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 54 I geve Willm Cooke my marble hose.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3930/4 An Almanack..with a Marble Vellum Cover.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4108/3 77 half Chests of Marble-Soap.
1766 Let. 25 Nov. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 911 Memorandum of Sundries which Messrs. Pomeroys and Hodgkin of London are desired to Ship..12 pieces Callico Marble ground..10 pieces Marble ground.
1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife II. xxviii. 74 Countless marble-covered octavos.
1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 120 3-thread fine marble stockings.
1817 T. F. Dibdin Bibliogr. Decameron II. 533 The peau de veau of the French, with gilt upon marble edges!
1876 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (new ed.) vii. 76 Marble silk had a weft of several colours so woven as to make the whole web look like marble.
1990 Sky Mag. Apr. 99/2 The foyer..is full of girls..dressed in marble denim and pastels.
3. figurative. Chiefly poetic.
a. Smooth as marble. Also in marble-faced adj.Used chiefly of a body of water. In quot. 1667 perhaps with sense ‘lucid, bright, clear’.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > like specific substance or material
silken1513
marble1558
ivorya1586
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satin1605
silka1616
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velvety1752
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ivorine1888
ivoried1890
swanskin1925
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. V.iiijv As thick as winter waues in Marble seas [L. Libyco..marmore] ar turnd and tost.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. sig. R iij b All what marblefacyd seas [L. marmoreo..aequore]conteines of monstrous fries.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 564 Through the pure marble Air. View more context for this quotation
1888 R. Kipling Lett. of Marque (1891) i. ix. 58 The marble-faced border of one of the most lovely lakes on earth.
b. White, hard, cold, or unyielding like marble. Frequently in parasynthetic adjectives, as marble-breasted, marble-hearted, marble-minded, etc. Occasionally used predicatively.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted
hard hearteOE
steelena1000
hardOE
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indured1558
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iron1561
marble1565
stone-hearted?1569
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rocky?1578
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obdure?1590
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petrified1720
calloused1746
coreless1813
pebble-hearted1816
hard-shelled1848
hard-plucked1857
steel trap1921
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as marble or alabaster
marble1565
alabaster1566
alabastrine1578
marmorean1656
marbly1814
marmoreal1869
1565 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc iv. ii. sig. D3 O Queene of Adamante, O Marble breaste.
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 43 P. Oh filthie..fashion of some Englishmen, to ride with these hard, straight, and little saddles. T. They are English toyes, to vse..such marble pinching sadles [It. queste selle marmoree].
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Inespiabile, inexpiable,..vnmercifull, deadlie, marble-minded.
1602 F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsody sig. F4v Shee is most faire, though shee be marble harted.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 254 Ingratitude! thou marble harted fiend. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 122 The Marble-brested Tirant. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. ii. 89 Who was most Marble, there changed colour. View more context for this quotation
a1618 J. Sylvester Woodman's Bear lxxv, in Wks. (1880) II. 312 Moan I must for never was Marble-hearted Mermidon But would moan [etc.].
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 570 His Marble, obdurate Heart.
1784 Unfortunate Sensibility I. 175 What is virtue? is it a certain marble-mindedness, the elder brother of insensibility.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xxxii. 77 That seeming marble heart.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xxxiii. 144 Her marble brow, and eager lips.
1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 13 His fancy on that spring would float, If some invisible breeze might stir It's marble calm.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) II. 102 Under the marble exterior of Greek literature was concealed a soul thrilling with spiritual emotion.
1902 L. Mead Word-coinage 167 ‘A cold frost’ and ‘frost crystals’ and ‘he gave me the marble heart’ mean to be treated coldly.
1927 R. Graves Poems 1914–26 203 Not marble-hearted but your own true love.
1937 G. Greene in Night & Day 30 Sept. 39/2 She lends her too beautiful body: she consents to pose: she is the marble motive for heroisms and sacrifices.
1994 L. Erdrich Bingo Palace xx. 219 The animal blinks its brilliant black marble eyes at me, all curious.
†c. Enduring as marble, or as if carved in marble. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring
longeOE
longsomeeOE
long of lifeOE
lastinga1225
cleaving1340
continualc1340
dwellingc1380
long-livinga1382
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perennial1676
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week-to-week1879
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long run1904
long-life1915
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B8 Cease to eternize in your marble verse The fals of fortune-tossed Venerists.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 105 They write not their obligations in sandy but marble memories.

Compounds

C1.
a.
(a) General attributive, with the sense ‘consisting of, relating to, or concerned with marble’.
marble chip n.
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1926 H. Crane Let. 19 Aug. (1965) 273 Examining pebbles and cinders and marble chips through the telescope.
1946 Happy Landings (Air Ministry) July 1/2 White stone or marble chips spread out and rolled into the macadam surface form an excellent substitute.
1990 A. Craig Foreign Bodies (1991) x. 110 Steps shuffled across the reconstituted marble-chip tiles outside.
marble chipping n.
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1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 23 Oct. 540 Every marble chipping that fell from under his chisel, every line known to have been drawn by him..has been cherished, preserved and is now exhibited with awe!
1994 Architect's Jrnl. 19 Jan. 21/1 Cubicles in the ladies' are formed from terrazzo cast in-situ—the architect's own tutti-frutti mixture of white marble chippings and coloured glass.
† marble grit n. Obsolete rare
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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 405 With marbul greet ygrounde [L. marmoris puluerem] & mixt with lyme.
† marble mart n. Obsolete rare
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1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV l. 28 The paltry jargon of the marble mart.
marble mason n.
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1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 808 The plasterers, marble-masons, and other artizans who use this article.
1859 All Year Round 10 Sept. 477/1 My father was a marble-mason.
1944 J. Millar in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder x. 339/2 The iron hammer is used by marble masons and stone carvers for striking cup-headed tools.
1991 M. Henry Panto Sphinx 59 I know that love's as sure as the work of a marble mason.
marble mill n.
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1675 R. Hooke Diary 16 Oct. (1935) 188 Saw Mr. Wymans marble mill and the scarlet dyehouse.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 58 Sawing comprehends every species of mill..such as..marble-mills.
marble quarry n.
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1613 J. Marston & W. Barksted Insatiate Countesse ii. i. sig. C2v The worse my fate that plowes a marble quarry.
1799 T. R. Malthus Diary 1 July (1966) 109 We ascended a high hill on the top of which are some marble quarries.
1887 J. C. Harris Free Joe (1888) 127 To invest money in Georgia marble-quarries.
1998 Esquire Feb. (Advt. section) 74/2 Lardo, salt pork aged with herbs to exquisite mellowness at Colonnata in the marble quarries above Carrara.
marble saw n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 801 The marble saw is a thin plate of soft iron, continually supplied..with water and the sharpest sand.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1393/1 Marble-Saw.
1882 Cent. Mag. June 241/2 The marble-saw is a piece of heavy sheet-iron four or five inches wide, fixed in a cumbrous buck-saw frame, and it is worked by two men.
marble work n.
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1831 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 10 Dec. 3/4 H. Clinton Page continues to supply orders for Marble Work at his former stand.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. iii. 37 Here and there, the narrow and tortuous passages widened, somewhat, developing themselves into small chapels; which once, no doubt, had been adorned with marble-work.
1990 Country Life 24 May 156/2 (advt.) Fireplaces—..antique, reproduction, all marble work.
marble works n.
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1869 Harper's Mag. Nov. 932/2 [An epitaph] from a stone at the marble-works in that city.
1871 R. S. Ferguson Cumberland & Westmorland M.P.s xi. 307 The marble works..the hatteries.
marble yard n.
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1840 J. K. Fisher in Southern Literary Messenger 6 844 Some Phidias from the marble-yard.
1870 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old (1875) 219 Littered up with chips..till the place looks like a marble yard.
(b) With the sense ‘relating to the game of marbles’.
† marble-ring n. Obsolete rare
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1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 5 The ‘I spy’, ‘halloo’, and the marble-ring.
b. In objective uses.
marble-cutter n.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Marbrier, a marble-cutter.
1768 N.Y. Gaz. 4 July 3/2 (advt.) Anthony Dodane, Marble Cutter, has Chimney Pieces both of Marble and Red Stone, that will serve for Jams and Hearth Pieces of all Kind.
1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 250/2 The tassels of the robe [of a statue] have been chiselled by Miss Hosmer's marble-cutter.
1989 D. Morrow & M. Keyes Conc. Hist. Sport Canada 110 The members represented a wonderful array of working-class occupations:..a saloon-keeper, a painter, a marblecutter, a brakeman, a tinsmith,..and many others.
marble polisher n.
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1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) Introd. 28 In the question about the tables, the marble polisher will unquestionably determine the most accurately.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 272/2 I worked..as a marble polisher.
1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 31 Oct. 2/3 John Armstrong..a marble polisher..suffocated his wife this evening..and then going down to the cellar hanged himself.
marble worker n.
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1832 C. T. Thackrah Effects Arts on Health (ed. 2) 18 Marble-workers, or dressers, have great but varied exertion.
1857 E. T. Freedley Philadelphia & its Manuf. 365 Long before the Marble-workers in New York and other cities were seemingly aware that uniformity in design was not a merit, those of this city employed special designers.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1393/2 Marble-worker's Files.
1993 Woodworker June 72/3 (advt.) Double ended..for wood sculptors and marble workers.
c. In instrumental uses (also figurative).
marble-arched adj.
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1636 G. Sandys Paraphr. Psalmes David viii. 9 The marble-arched Skie.
1884 A. T. de Vere Ceadmon Cowherd in Poet. Wks. IV. 300 Behind the rest And higher-ranged in marble-arched arcade, Sat Hilda's sisterhood.
marble-built adj.
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1791 W. Blake French Revol. in Compl. Writings (1972) 138 Shall this marble built heaven become a clay cottage..?
1848 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds i. iv Lofty-roofed fanes, and marble-built portals.
1909 J. Miller Poems IV. 175 A capitol huge as a planet And massive as marble-built Rome.
marble-chequered adj.
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1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience i. iv Across the marble-chequered hall.
marble-flagged adj.
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1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma 25 The black and white marble-flagged entrance hall.
1889 W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin 53 A marble-flagged, pillared room.
1920 C. M. Doughty Mansoul v. 162 Dream-Citys traffic place; Great, like some antique stadium, marble flagged.
marble-floored adj.
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1870 A. O'Shaughnessy Epic of Women 134 Along the fair courts marble-floored, Each met the looks of other all aghast.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 13/3 I pushed open the door and found myself immediately in a huge marble-floored, domed room.
1977 New Yorker 19 Sept. 43/1 The marble-floored reception area alone, on the ground floor, is vast enough to accommodate the entire corps de ballet of four or five major ballet companies.
marble-fronted adj.
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1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss v. sig. I3 Oh marble fronted Impudence.
1864 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. (1865) I. 63 The sumptuous, marble-fronted, dry-goods store.
1965 J. A. Michener Source (1966) 750 He looked down to see not the spacious marble-fronted Tiberias of the Romans nor the beautiful Tverya of the Talmud but mud-walled Tubariyeh of the Turks.
1994 Toronto Star 2 July (Ontario ed.) j 7/6 You can see a film in the original marble-fronted Princess Theatre or sip espresso at a sidewalk café.
marble-halled adj.
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1909 Daily Chron. 25 May 6/6 The marble-halled Adelphi Restaurant in the Strand.
1998 Total Football Nov. 92/1 Ian Wright's place in Arsenal's marble-halled history may be secure, but doubts remain over whether he could ever have shot Arsenal to League success.
marble-imaged adj.
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1832 R. Cattermole Beckett 179 With all thy high and marble-imaged line.
marble-paved adj.
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1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxi. 91 In marble-pav'd pavilion.
1858 G. W. Thornbury in Househ. Words 13 Nov. 511/1 The cool, marble-paved hall.
1932 R. Jeffers Thurso's Landing 135 On the small marble-paved platform On the turret on the head of the tower.
† marble-piled adj. Obsolete rare
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1777 T. Warton Poems 45 What though no marble-piled bust Adorn his desolated dust.
marble-pillared adj.
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1679 S. Woodford Paraphr. upon Canticles 38 Two Pedestals of solid Gold His Marble-pillar'd Thighs uphold.
1770 J. Armstrong Forced Marriage v. iv, in Misc. II. 110 This marble-pillar'd castle.
1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 3/1 The old red-brick buildings of Vale were crummy compared to the marble pillared ones of Kings.
1998 K. Shamsie In City by Sea xxi. 174 She rapped on the gate of the marble-pillared house.
marble-ribbed adj.
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a1822 P. B. Shelley Tower of Famine 11 in Poet. Wks. (1853) Each marble-ribbed roof.
marble-sculptured adj.
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1844 E. B. Browning Brown Rosary iii. xii He knelt like a child marble-sculptured and white.
1893 M. J. Cawein Red Leaves & Roses 141 Praying low, She kneels a marble-sculptured Woe.
marble-slabbed adj.
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1864 Harper's Mag. Dec. 40/1 I..had a snug marble-slabbed brick house.
1933 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Rebel viii. 162 Lay his catch upon the marble-slabbed hat-stand in the hall of the inn.
marble-stoppered adj.
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1972 Country Life 30 Nov. 1481/3 The screw-topped or marble-stoppered lemonade bottles of long ago.
d. With the sense ‘as or like marble’.
marble constant adj.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 236 Now from head to foote I am Marble constant . View more context for this quotation
1995 Re: Of Horses & Friends in rec.games.chess (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Feb. In the words of the Bard, have I not been ‘marble-constant’ to my plighted troth?
marble-hard adj.
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a1618 J. Sylvester Elegy H. Parvis in Wks. (1880) II. 328 In his stone-breast no pitie moves relenting, Rough and remorselesse, more then marble-hard.
2003 www.twbookmark.com 25 July (O.E.D. Archive) Lost hiker or foul play? Hard to tell until the marble-hard body is thawed out.
marble-looking adj.
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1846 T. De Quincey Antigone in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 158/2 The unchanging expression in the marble-looking masque.
a1941 V. Woolf Lady in Looking-glass in Haunted House (1944) 79 The pages inside those marble-looking envelopes must be cut deep and scored thick with meaning.
marble-still adj.
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1869 H. E. H. King Execution F. Orsini in Aspromonte 31 Calm thou standest now, With grave, majestic brow; Passive and marble-still.
1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken xiii. 168 He stood, thus, marble-still.
marble-tall adj.
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1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 105 We've nae palaces sheynin amang us, Nor marble tall towers.
1938 H. Belloc Sonnets & Verse 196 The Islands have received it, marble-tall.
marble-white adj.
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1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie f. 9 Two mounts faire marble white, downe-soft and daintie.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxii. 720 The quarried cliffs of Toora, marble-white.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid iii. 57 Marble-white Paros.
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marble ball n. = sense A. 11a.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble
marble1681
marble ball1681
taw1709
marvela1734
marl1860
marley1887
tolley1970
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. vi. 315 Another Marble-Ball, two inches and 1/2 in Diametre, Veined, and spoted with Red, Sand-colour, and White.
1955 Mind 64 503 Neither can we say that the moved inkstand means that a marble ball on its way across the table toward the new place of the inkstand will be stopped by it.
marbleberry n. U.S. = marlberry n.
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1946 E. West & L. E. Arnold Native Trees Florida 170 The marbleberry, one of the common and well-known small trees of the coastal hammocks, occurs inland to some extent in..the southern part of the peninsula.
1979 E. L. Little Checklist U.S. Trees 57 Ardisia escallonioides..other common name—marbleberry.
marble bone n. [after German Marmorknochen] Medicine (a) (chiefly in plural) = marble bone disease n.; (b) a bone affected by osteopetrosis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > hardening
osteosclerosis1841
marble bone1922
osteopetrosis1926
1922 Arch. Surg. 5 462 In 1921, Schultz discussed the nature of the disease of marble bones (Albers–Schönberg).
1922 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 2 Dec. 1955/2 A patient..was found, on roentgen-ray examination, to have a pathologic fracture as the result of a rather obscure bone condition which has been termed osteosclerosis fragilis generalisata, Marmorknochen (marble bone), or Albers–Schönberg disease.
1947 Arch. Pathol. 43 73 Fractures in marble bones, for the most part, do not splinter.
1961 R. D. Baker Essent. Pathol. xxi. 560 In osteopetrosis (Albers–Schönberg's disease; marble bones) the bones are abnormally hard and thick, but also easily fractured.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 8 Nov. 5/1 Three of the Casino children were born with..osteopetrosis, commonly known as marble bones or ivory bones.
1988 Jrnl. Small Animal Pract. 29 153 Osteopetrosis was found in two adult cats, radiographically characterised by a ‘marble bone’ appearance of the axial skeleton and of the subchondral bone of all joints.
marble bone disease n. Medicine osteopetrosis, esp. in one of its milder forms (cf. Albers-Schönberg n.).
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1947 Arch. Pathol. 43 75 Marble bone disease is due to..an unknown agent which damages the bone-forming blastema at the beginning of the second period of development of each individual bone.
1987 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Feb. 463/1 The benign autosomal dominant type, referred to as Albers–Schönberg's or marble bone disease, is usually a chance finding on radiological examination.
marble bones disease n. = marble bone disease n.
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1973 J. Forfar & C. Arneil Textbk. Paediatrics xxiii. 1525/1 (heading) Albers–Schonberg disease (osteopetrosis, marble bones disease).
† marble butterfly n. Obsolete any of certain satyrid butterflies, esp. the marbled white, Melanargia galathea, and the grayling, Hipparchia semele.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Satyridae > arge galathea (marbled white)
marble butterfly1749
marbled white butterfly1766
1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 52 The Marmoris, or Marble-Butterfly.
1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. Marble-butterfly. Pap. Galathea. The black-eyed Marble butterfly. Papilio Semele.
marble cake n. originally U.S. a cake made from two mixtures of contrasting colours, swirled together to produce a marbled effect; also in extended use.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > sponge-cake
Savoy cake?1750
sponge cake1808
muffin1835
Madeira cake1845
Victoria sandwich1861
angels' food1865
marble cake1871
sponge1877
angel cake1878
angel food cake1878
layer cake1882
sponge sandwich1884
Lady Baltimore cake1889
sand cake1892
sandwich cake1911
Victoria sponge1934
red velvet1951
1871 Mrs. T. J. V. Owen Illinois Cook Bk. 202 Marble Cake... White part... Three teacupsful white sugar,..Dark part... Three teacupsful brown sugar, One teacupful molasses, [etc.].
1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm xxvi. 290 She began to stir the marble cake.
1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 74 My husband used to like a marble cake.
1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) vii. 184 The sediments of Kebara are thick with these ancient hearths, so dense in places they turn the wall of the excavation into marble cake, with swirls of black and gray ash lacing the brick-red sediments.
† marble colours n. Obsolete (figurative) something which lends the appearance of beauty or order, esp. in order to conceal something unattractive (as paint over rotten wood); outward show; ostentation.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xvii. sig. A a 3 Shall I labour to lay marble coulours ouer my ruinous thoughts?
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy v. ii. sig. M2v And wherefore should you lay faire marble colours, Vpon your rotten purposes to me?
1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 48 The marble colours, of..funerall Pompe.
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 41 The marble Colours of false Greatness.
† marble crab n. Obsolete a crab having a marbled or mottled shell, perhaps Pachygrapsus marmoratus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > member of family Cancridae (rock crab)
partan1428
punger1586
marble crab1668
sea-cock1668
rock crab1736
Cape lobster1793
partan-crab1893
Dungeness crab1896
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 176 Cancer..Marmoratus sive Varius (quod testa tegitur..maculis viridibus, cæruleis, albis, nigris, cinereis..), the Marble Crab.
?1703 J. Petiver Gazophylacii II. 31 Cancer marmoratus... Marble Crab.
marble crust n. Skiing a type of hard slippery surface formed on snow.
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1948 P. Lunn Ski-ing Primer xviii. 90 Marble crust is so slippery that it is almost impossible to obtain a purchase on it with the skis.
1969 M. Heller Ski xiv. 185 Marble crust looks like its name and is formed by the wind. The snow is dull and extremely hard... It is very common at high altitude in early winter.
† marble dew n. Obsolete an imaginary antiaphrodisiac.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > anaphrodisiac > specific
camphor1313
marble dew1621
1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret iii. i. sig. E4v The teares of mandrake and the marble dew, Mixt in my draught, haue quencht my natural heate.
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iii. i. 21 in 3 New Playes (1655) I would..bathe my self, night by night, in marble dew.
1818 T. Doubleday Sonnets 49 Think'st thou no milder passion ever warms His bosom; that..As if besprinkled with the marble dew, It is insensible to love's alarms?
marble dust n. crushed or powdered marble, sometimes used as a basic carbonate, and frequently used in art as an inert pigment, in the plaster used in frescos, in surface coatings, etc.
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1860 N. Hawthorne Transformation I. xiii. 206 Another bust was nearly completed, though still one of Kenyon's most trustworthy assistants was at work.., leaving little heaps of marble-dust to attest it.
1895 S. P. Sadtler Handbk. Industr. Org. Chem. (ed. 2) 204 Chaptalization consists in neutralizing the excess of acidity in the must by the addition of marble-dust.
1951 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (new ed.) ii. 55 Marble dust, native calcium and/or magnesium carbonate.
1991 Artist's Mag. Jan. 19/2 These quality Masonite boards are primed with acrylic gesso and marble dust for a finely toothed surface suitable for a variety of media.
marblefish n. any of several fishes of the family Aplodactylidae, with heavily built bodies and mottled skin patterns, found off coasts of southern continents; esp. Aplodactylus arctidens of New Zealand waters.
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1921 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 4 115 Marble-fish; Keke. Secured in deep water in the vicinity of kelp, and is sometimes taken in mullet-nets.
1967 J. M. Moreland Marine Fishes N.Z. 28 Marblefish... Another name is marbletrout, while the Maori keke is still in use in some northern areas.
1994 J. S. Nelson Fishes of World (ed. 3) 377 Family Aplodactylidae..—marblefishes. Coastal marine; southern Australia, New Zealand, Peru, and Chile.
† marble-flint n. Obsolete rare a kind of flint, perhaps one having a mottled appearance.
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1686 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 27 Burnt Marble-flint quench'd in Vinegar.
marble gall n. a hard, spherical brown or green gall formed on the common oak in response to the developing larva of the gall wasp Andricus kollari.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth
gall1398
elationc1420
dog rose1526
tumour?1541
to-growing1562
gall-nut1572
gall-apple1617
apple1668
by-fruit1682
witches' besom1849
witches' broom1856
mad-apple1868
nail gall1879
marble gall1882
gall-knob1892
scroll-gall1895
twig-gall1900
cecidium1902
1882 Garden 14 Oct. 334/2 The Marble and Artichoke galls are formed from buds.
1938 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 4) iii. 581 The hard spherical ‘marble’ galls of Cynips kollari on the oak produce the agamic generation of that species.
1993 M. Chinery Insects Brit. & N. Europe (ed. 3) 267 Other familiar oak galls include the oak apple, caused by Biorhiza pallida, the marble gall of Andricus kollari, and the artichoke gall of A. fecundator.
marble grey n. a shade of grey reminiscent of the colour of certain varieties of marble.
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1557 in Great Brit. Statutes at Large VI. 100 No person or persons after the said feast of the nativity of St. John Baptist shall sell or put to sale within the realm of England, any coloured cloth of any other colour or colours than are hereafter mentioned, that is to say, scarlet, red, crimson, morrey, violet, pewke, brown, blue, black, green, yellow, blue, orange, tawney, russet, marble grey, [etc.].
1860 A. B. Street Woods & Waters vi. 55 The lake showed differing though still sober tints; here a space of marble grey, there of polished black.
† marble leg n. Medicine Obsolete rare the oedematous white leg characteristic of the condition phlegmasia dolens (deep-vein thrombosis).
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1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Marble Marble leg, the pale, shining leg of Phlegmasia dolens.
marble orchard n. North American slang (originally U.S.) a cemetery.
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1925 Wisconsin News 5 June 18 Listening to one of those ancestor pests as you stroll through an old marble orchard.
1941 J. M. Cain Mildred Pierce 155 You'll get your names in this marble orchard soon enough.
1980 Los Angeles Times 20 Mar. v. 1 Nice old cemeteries of the kind called marble orchards.
marble paper n. Bookbinding paper coloured in imitation of marble.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > paper
forel1549
marble paper1667
marble1699
Cobb paper1859
featherweight1905
Duxeen1920
Linson1948
1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 258 Of making Marble-paper.
1670 H. Oldenburg Let. 1 Mar. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1969) VI. 532 Ye Chalk..being..so finely streaked and shaded, yt it surpasseth marble-paper.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1566/4 Two Books..covered with Marble Paper.
1737 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 247 I would have these pamphlets covered with marble paper pasted on white paper.
1994 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Electronic ed.) 13 Jan. c1 The box is decorated with a Napoleon print that was duplicated using a laser printer... Scraps of marble paper were used to finish the project.
marble paste n. [perhaps after French pâte de marbre: see Cent. Dict. s.v.] rare a white porcelain paste used for casts of statues.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Marble-paste.
marble-player n. a person who plays the game of marbles.
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1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. i. 9 Six men playing the noble game of rinkers... They were celebrated marble-players.
1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 23. 7 Marble players are not imaginative as far as their terminology is concerned.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xi. 228 In some places marble players are addicted to charms.
marble seal n. rare the ringed seal, Phoca hispida.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus phoca > phoca hispida (ringed seal)
ringed seal1850
floe-rat1880
marble seal1896
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 519 The Ringed or Marble Seal (Ph. fœtida).
marbles-player n. = marble-player n.
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1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xi. 228 Young marbles players..easily become prey to strange thoughts.
marble-top adj. (of a piece of furniture) having a marble or marble-covered top.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally > as having specific parts
two-leaved1610
two-leaf1634
fall-down1823
marble-topped1840
spindle-shank1841
spindle-shanked1849
spindle-legged1863
marble-top1869
armed1878
roll-top1884
monopod1890
break-front1928
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xliv. 459 There were great looking-glasses and marble-top tables.
1883 Heal & Son Catal. Sept. 200/2 Hall Table,..St. Ann's Marble Top.
1891 ‘O. Thanet’ Otto the Knight & Other Stories 60 [She was] a woman of property,..owning two marble-top bureaus and a sewing-machine.
1963 House & Garden Feb. 1 Marble top coffee table, 36″ × 15″, £38.10.0.
marble-topped adj. = marble-top adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally > as having specific parts
two-leaved1610
two-leaf1634
fall-down1823
marble-topped1840
spindle-shank1841
spindle-shanked1849
spindle-legged1863
marble-top1869
armed1878
roll-top1884
monopod1890
break-front1928
1840 L. S. Costello Summer amongst Bocages & Vines I. xxi. 376 A fine bed and marble-topped console.
1864 E. C. Gaskell French Life i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 435/2 The ‘guéridon’ (round, marble-topped table)..the one indispensable article in a French drawing-room.
1886 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 7 Aug. (1920) 257 They never used a stove, but cooked their meals on a marble-topped table.
a1941 V. Woolf Captain's Death Bed (1950) 181 There are marble-topped tables at the corner.
1971 M. Lee Dying for Fun xlii. 203 Would he have to change the décor of his flat.., those marble-topped café tables?
marble town n. U.S. slang = marble orchard n.
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1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 29 Marble town, a graveyard.
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 80 Marble town, (1940's) a cemetery.
marble veal n. Cookery (now historical) potted veal and tongue (having a mottled surface when cut; cf. marbled adj. 3b).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > potted meat
marble veal1769
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xiii. 272 To pot Marble Veal. Boil a dried Tongue, skin it, and. cut it as thin as possible, and beat it exceeding well.
1833 M. E. K. Rundell New Syst. Domestic Cookery 66 Marble Veal. Boil tender, skin and cut a dried neat's tongue in thin slices, and beat as fine as possible with half a pound of butter, and some mace pounded.
1973 C. A. Wilson Food & Drink in Brit. iii. 105 Two different meats could be..inserted in the pot..to create a marbled effect when cut. The veal and tongue mixture was known as marble veal.
2005 K. Olsen Cooking with Jane Austen vi. 114 Veal and tongue might be pounded smooth, mixed gently together, and potted as ‘marble veal’.

Derivatives

ˈmarble-like adj.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 318/1 Marbylyke, of the coloure of marbyll.
1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. ix. 163 He could impress a marble-like immovableness upon his features.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. a3/3 (advt.) This beautiful..dinette set has a brown marble-like..table top plus six chairs.
ˈmarble-wise adv. rare
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1687 G. Miege Great French Dict. (at cited word) To marble Paper, to paint it marble-wise with several Colours.
2003 www.mittymax.com 25 July (O.E.D. Archive) By the time the first bell sounded for class, Merle was considerably richer, marble-wise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

marblev.

Brit. /ˈmɑːbl/, U.S. /ˈmɑrbəl/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: marble n.
Etymology: < marble n. Compare French marbrer (from early 13th cent. in Old French in past participle) and, in senses 2 and 3, earlier marbled adj. With sense 4 compare earlier marl v.3 and marill v.; marble is possibly an alteration of one of these due to folk etymology.
I. To cause to become or resemble marble.
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a. transitive. To turn (a person) to marble; (figurative) to harden, inure. Obsolete. rare.
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1594 G. Chapman Σκìα Νυκτòς sig. Bivv Night brings terror to our frailties still, And shamelesse Day, doth marble vs in ill.
1632 T. Heywood Iron Age ii. iv. i. sig. H4v Orestes, he Who as if marbled by Medusaes head, Hath not one teare to fall, or sigh to spend.
b. transitive. To make (blood, the complexion, etc.) white like marble. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > make white [verb (transitive)]
whiteOE
emblanch1393
blank1484
whiten1552
frost1596
albify1599
frostbite?1605
hoar1605
dealbate1623
impearl1640
marble1658
bewhite1678
whiten1699
rewhiten1725
bewhiten1810
ermine1825
powder1890
1658 W. Chamberlayne Loves Victory iv. 63 Fear never yet marbled a cowards bloud More than obedience mine.
1791 H. Walpole Let. to Mrs. H. More 29 Sept. Mrs. Porteus's accident..may have marbled her complexion, but I am persuaded has not altered her..good-humoured countenance.
1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iii. 67 Thy features, marbled by the moon.
2.
a. transitive. To stain or colour (paper, the edge of a book, etc.) so as to give the appearance of variegated marble; to combine with (a contrasting ingredient) to achieve a similar effect (in cooking, soap-making, etc.).
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > mark with patches [verb (transitive)] > marble
marble1675
marbleize1854
1675 R. Hooke Diary 23 Sept. (1935) 182 Povey there about marbling the side of the staircase.
1683 London Gaz. No. 1874/4 A..strong leather Pad-saddle marbled.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 123 Which two colours they break with a wire brush, much after the manner they doe when they marble paper.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week ii. 13 Marbled with Sage the hard'ning Cheese she press'd.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Potage Marbling it with very brown Veal-Gravy.
1811 Whole Art of Bookbinding 50 It will..have a fine effect when colouring splash paper, marbling edges, etc.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 393 With about as much intelligence or feeling of art as a house-painter has in marbling a wainscot.
1885 J. Payn Talk of Town II. 228 Liquids used by bookbinders in marbling covers.
1964 Wine & Food Autumn 30/1 Rolls of beef marbled with hard-boiled eggs and ham.
1984 H. Spurling Secrets of Woman's Heart i. 31 He had marbled the bathroom himself.
1990 Microwave Know-how 2 ee11/2 Drizzle the raspberry purée in wavy lines over the tops and marble by drawing a cocktail stick through in lines or swirls.
†b. transitive. To make (a design) by the process of marbling. Obsolete.
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1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 267/1 Take..a green calf and marble a tree upon it.
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a. transitive. More generally, chiefly of a natural phenomenon: to cause (a thing) to appear mottled or variegated like marble; to mark or dapple with.
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1709 E. Ward Solitary Enjoyment in Writings IV. 59 The reviving Glories of the Day Did here and there 'twixt Drooping Boughs make way And darting in its Beams divinely bright, Marbled the dusky Shade with streams of Light.
1805 S. Weston Werneria I. 39 Some clays are marbled, and look like wash-balls ready made.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xi. 199 The horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.
1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 143 Noblesse... Skin pale yellowish-green in the shade, delicate red, marbled and streaked with dull red and purple next the sun.
1886 W. W. How Last Bathe in Poems 84 And the mighty breakers tower and curl, Marbled with emerald and pearl.
1961 J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson & J. Sankey Land Invertebr. xii. 139 L. Maximus (L.). One of the largest slugs..the mantle is marbled with darker blotches.
1979 J. Wainwright Brainwash xliv. 189 Sweat marbled his forehead, then ran in tiny rivulets down his ashen face.
1990 C. Laird Forgotten Son (1992) vii. 74 The weather, reflecting his state of mind, became mixed and changeable: low grey clouds marbled the sky and threatened worse to come.
b. transitive. spec. To streak or interlayer (lean meat) with thin layers of fat; to variegate (lean meat or tissue) with fat.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > insert fat bacon
lardc1330
enarma1475
interlarda1533
bard1655
marble1803
piqué1846
piquer1865
1803 [implied in: J. Sinclair in A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) IV. xvii. 355 There is no better sign of good flesh, than when it is marbled. (at marbled adj. 3b)].
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species vii. 238 Breeders of cattle wish the flesh and fat to be well marbled together.
1957 ‘R. West’ Fountain Overflows ii. 46 Here there were huge joints of beef, marbled with broad veins of fat.
1977 C. Conran M. Guérard's Cuisine Minceur (1981) 65 Ask the butcher to lard the meat (..inserting six or eight long strips of back fat..along the grain of the meat—right through the joint to ‘marble’ the meat thoroughly).
1991 Cosmopolitan May 150 Men usually build fat on the outside of their muscles... Women, however, will ‘marble’ their fat, adding deposits in the muscle itself.
†II. Other uses.
4. transitive. To pickle (a fish). Cf. marill v., marl v.3 Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)]
souse1387
conditec1420
comfit1484
pickle1526
confect1558
preserve1563
marl1598
murine1656
marble1661
mango1728
caveach1739
to put down1782
process1878
1661 W. Rabisha Whole Body Cookery 14 To Marble Sowls, Plaice, Flounders, Smelts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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