A hard, crystalline or granular, metamorphic limestone, white or variouslycolored and sometimes streaked or mottled, which can take a high polish:
it is much used in building and sculpture a piece or slab of this stone, used as a monument,
inscribed record, etc. a piece of sculpture in marble. 
anything resembling or suggesting marble in hardness, smoothness, coldness, coloration, etc.
a little ball of stone, glass, or clay, used in games a children's game in which a marble is propelled
by the thumb at other marbles, usually in an attempt to drive them out of a marked circle. 
a marbled pattern; marbling.
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