marbles
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- n a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
- n the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind - n a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material
- n a small ball of glass that is used in various games
- n a sculpture carved from marble
- v paint or stain like marble
- The marbles for which England is most famed are the Elgin marbles, a collection of Greek sculptures which Lord Elgin plucked from the Parthenon at Athens in the early 19th .
- They're a concoction of either tea or juice combined with milk, fruit syrup, ice and--the surprise--small marbles of tapioca.
- Defenders set up small piles of marbles that attackers would shoot at from behind a line a few feet away.