mark with a white stone

verb

To mark as particularly fortunate.

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Meanings

verbmark with a white stone (third-person singular simple present marks with a white stone, present participle marking with a white stone, simple past and past participle marked with a white stone)

present singular third person marks with a white stone · participle present marking with a white stone · participle past marked with a white stone · past marked with a white stone

  1. transitiveTo mark as particularly fortunate.

    Sunday — yesterday — was a day to be marked with a white stone […]

    1851, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857), Chapter 25, quoting a letter written by Charlotte Bronte dated June 2, 1851
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    If we ever do reap any harvest from our little experiment, it will be a day to be marked with a white stone.

    1885, Annie Brassey, In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties
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