mark with a white stone

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Verb

mark 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)

  1. (transitive) To mark as particularly fortunate.
    • 1885, Annie Brassey, In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties:
      If we ever do reap any harvest from our little experiment, it will be 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
      Sunday — yesterday — was a day to be marked with a white stone