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ˈheadstone, head stone
1. (head stone) The chief stone in a foundation; the cornerstone of a building. Also fig.
1535Coverdale Ps. cxvii[i]. 22 The same stone which the buylders refused, is become the heade stone in the corner [Wyclif the hed of the corner]. 1649Milton Eikon. 1 His first foundation and as it were the head stone of his whole Structure. 1870Rossetti Poems (1872) 37 Thou headstone of humanity, Groundstone of the great Mystery.
2. (ˈheadstone) An upright stone at the head of a grave; a gravestone.
1775Ash, Headstone..a gravestone set up at the head with an inscription. 1787Sederunt Managers Kirk Canongate 22 Feb. in Burns' Wks. (1856) II. 35 The said managers..grant power and liberty to the said Robert Burns to erect a headstone at the grave of the said Robert Fergusson. 1833Tennyson Poems 3 Come only, when the days are still, And at my headstone whisper low, And tell me if the woodbines blow. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i. 5 The churchyards, with their grassy mounds and venerable headstones. |