A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture, A small hard ball, usually of glass, used in children's games, 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, verb: paint or stain like marble, transitive verb: To mottle and streak (paper, for example) with colors and veins in imitation of marble, To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color