Peb"ble (?), n. [AS. papolstan; cf. L. papula pimple, mote. See Stone.]
1.
A small roundish stone or bowlder; 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 opticians.
Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical grains.
-- Scotch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.
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Peb"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pebbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pebbling.]
To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
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