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Mar"bler (&?;), n. 1.
One who works upon marble or other stone. [R.]
Fuller.

2. One who colors or stains in imitation of
marble.

Mar"bling (?), n. 1.
The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of
marble.

2. An intermixture of fat and lean in meat,
giving it a marbled appearance.

3. pl. (Zoöl.) Distinct
markings resembling the variegations of marble, as on birds and
insects.

Mar"bly, a. Containing, or
resembling, marble.

||Mar*bri"nus (?), n. [LL., fr. OF. &
F. marble marble. See Marble.] A cloth woven so as
to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and
16th centuries. Beck (Draper's Dict.).

Marc (?), n. [F.] The refuse
matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of
grapes.

Marc, n. [AS. marc; akin to G.


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