Crossword clues for headstone
headstone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headstone \Head"stone`\ (-st[=o]n`), n.
The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.
--Ps. cxviii. 22. The stone at the head of a grave.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.
WordNet
n. the central building block at the top of an arch or vault [syn: keystone, key]
a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone, tombstone]
Wikipedia
A headstone, or gravestone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. A tombstone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a tomb. They are traditional for burials in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim religions, among others. In most cases they have the deceased's name, date of birth, and date of death inscribed on them, along with a personal message, or prayer, but they may contain pieces of funerary art, especially details in stone relief. In many parts of Europe insetting a photograph of the deceased in a frame is very common.
A headstone is a grave marker.
Headstone may also refer to:
- Headstone, London, an area of London, England
- Headstones (band), a Canadian rock band
- Headstones (album), an album by Lake of Tears
- Bradley Headstone, a character in the novel Our Mutual Friend
Usage examples of "headstone".
He had been baptized in the church where his father was a deacon, and he had every expectation that when his time came he would go to his final rest in the same ground where his father and mother lay, indeed where leaning headstones marked the graves of the Adams line going back four generations.
I can find out who Martin Albers was and why Max Abs was willing to pay for his headstone I might be on my way to establishing why Abs thought it necessary to kill Pichler before he spoke to me.
The Esculapian Club of Edinburgh have, since the death of Burns, added some iron-work, with an inscription in honour of the Ayrshire poet to the original headstone.
Boschian nightmare, glided smoothly from a headstone into the shadows and was gone.
Chinese script, and a single headstone written in the rarely-found Tocharian language, an Indo-European tongue known to have once been spoken in what is now Western China.
He halted next to her, his gaze riveted on the headstones in front of them.
There were a scattering of headstones, trees here and there, and up ahead, a little huddle of figures she thought were the statues from her dream.
Alleyn gave particular attention to the headstones of Old Jimmy Wagstaff, Ruth Wall, and Simon Castle.
Her words trailed off as she gazed into the distance and took in the headstones, sprinkled randomly around a grove of cottonwoods in the otherwise open expanse of green foothill a few miles away.
Instead she plunged awkwardly across the sodden earth, stumbling over grave markers and dodging headstones, her face twisted in horror.
These brief, stammering illuminations brought out with ghastly distinctness the monuments and headstones of the cemetery and seemed to set them dancing.
A blackbird which has been observing him from one of the newer headstones is frightened by the sudden movement and rises, calling shrilly.
They still possessed that anachronistic quality, though this time-with soot-discolored snow on some rooftops, with dirty icicles hanging from eaves, with icterous frost marbelizing many window-they also seemed, somehow, like rank after serried rank of headstones in a graveyard for giants.
Two graves along from Susan Blanchard, he stopped abruptly and turned to face that headstone.
First it skirts a stream, a tributary to the Itchen, and goes between meadows till the old church is reached, now only a chancel in the midst of old headstones, and still bordered with trees on the bank between it and the stream.