The Only Use
keystone
in
Moby Dick
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- Zoned by those letters you saw the likeness of three Andes' summits; from one a flame; a tower on another; on the third a crowing cock; while arching over all was a segment of the partitioned zodiac, the signs all marked with their usual cabalistics, and the keystone sun entering the equinoctial point at Libra.†
Chpt 97-99
Definitions:
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(1)
(keystone as in: keystone of our philosophy) the most important part of something, on which everything else depends
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(2)
(keystone as in: keystone of the arch) the wedge-shaped stone at the center of an arch that locks the arch in place
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)