Pebble
['peb(ə)l] or ['pɛbl]
Definition
(n.) A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
(n.) Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
(v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Stone (of small size), pebble-stone.
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Definition
n. a small roundish ball or stone: transparent and colourless rock-crystal used for glass in spectacles a fine kind of glass: a large size of gunpowder.—v.t. to give (to leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.—adjs. Pebb′led Pebb′ly full of pebbles.—ns. Pebb′le-pow′der gunpowder consisting of large cubical grains and burning slowly—also Cube-powder and Prismatic-powder; Pebb′le-ware a kind of fine pottery made of various coloured clays mixed together; Pebb′ling a way of graining leather with a ribbed or roughened appearance.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a young woman to dream of a pebble-strewn walk, she will be vexed with many rivals and find that there are others with charms that attract besides her own. She who dreams of pebbles is selfish and should cultivate leniency towards others' faults.
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Examples
- A quiet pool and a pebble will help to make it clear to us. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- An onion is an onion is an onion, Robert Jordan said cheerily and, he thought, a stone is a stein is a rock is a boulder is a pebble. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If we throw a pebble into a quiet pool (Fig. 90), waves or ripples form and spread out in all directions, gradually dying out as they become more and more distant from the pebble. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If a pebble is thrown into a quiet pool, it creates ripples or waves which spread outward in all directions, but which soon die out, leaving the pool again placid and undisturbed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Look also at the innumerable fish that are swimming in the clear waters, where we can distinguish every pebble that lies at the bottom. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discolored metal and several dull-colored pieces of pebble or glass. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A sharp pebble flew by her, grazing forehead and cheek, and drawing a blinding sheet of light before her eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He had come forward after throwing the last pebble, and the fire now shone into each of their faces from the bank stretching breast-high between them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But I will put a pebble in my mouth to make is less likely. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If you wish to be sure of this, throw the pebble near a spot where a chip lies quiet on the smooth pond. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She seemed to look at him as at a pebble far away under clear dark water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The pebble parable of Sir Isaac Newton will here occur to many minds, and it applies as truly to our times as to his own. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- If now we could quickly withdraw the pebble from the pool, the water would again be disturbed and waves would form. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He threw a pebble in the direction signified. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Three days later a message was left scrawled upon paper, and placed under a pebble upon the sundial. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Did the Azilians play with these pebbles or tell a story with them, as imaginative children will do with bits of wood and stone nowadays? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He got all those pebbles on the sea shore, abreast the ship, but professes to have gathered them from one of our party. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The use or significance of these Azilian pebbles is still a profound mystery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the shore, where the ice has been partly forced out along the banks, it will be full of grass, leaves, pebbles and sticks, and presents a broken and frosted appearance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of course, it must have been the old metal and pebbles which my client had dragged from the mere. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The spinster aunt trembled, till some pebbles which had accidentally found their way into the large watering-pot shook like an infant's rattle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As soon as Venn found his feet dragging over the pebbles of the shallower part below he secured his footing and waded towards the brink. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These Azilian people have left behind them a multitude of pebbles, roughly daubed with markings of an unknown purport (see illus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We went on again, picking up shells and pebbles. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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