Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CORN'ER-STONE
CORN'ER-STONE, n.
The stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone, and especially the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice. Who laid the corner-stone thereof? – Job xxxviii. Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. – Eph. ii.
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