Word Meanings - MARBLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who works upon marble or other stone. Fuller. 2. One who colors or stains in imitation of marble.

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• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• STONE-STILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• STONEWARE
  A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• STONE
  1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii. 59. 2. To make like stone; to harden. O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. Shak. 3. To free from stones;
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• STONEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
• WORKSHIP
  Workmanship.
• MARBLEIZE
  To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.
• MARBLER
  1. One who works upon marble or other stone. Fuller. 2. One who colors or stains in imitation of marble.
• STONE-HORSE
  Stallion. Mortimer.
• MARBLED
  Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks. (more info) 1. Made of, or faced with, marble. "The marbled mansion." Shak. 2. Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble. "Marbled paper."
• STONECROP
  Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine. Virginian, or Ditch, stonecrop, an American plant . (more info) 1. A sort of tree. Mortimer.
• OTHERGATES
  In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• CAPSTONE
  A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• EYESTONE
  Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid,
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• GALLSTONE
  A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram