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Webster 1913 Edition
Pebble
1.
A small roundish piece of stone; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
“The pebbles on the hungry beach.” Shak.
As children gathering
pebbles
on the shore. Milton.
2.
Transparent and colorless rock crystal;
as, Brazilian
. pebble
; – so called by opticiansPebble powder
, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical grains.
– Scotch pebble
, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.
Peb′ble
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pebbled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pebbling
.] To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.