Skull
[skʌl]
Definition
(n.) A school, company, or shoal.
(n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
(n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
(n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.
(n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cranium, brain-pan.
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Definition
n. the bony case that encloses the brain: the head the sconce noddle: a crust formed on the ladle &c. by the partial cooling of molten metal: in armour the crown of the head-piece: (Scot.) a shallow bow-handled basket.—n. Skull′cap a cap which fits closely to the head: the sinciput.—adj. Skull′-less.—Skull and cross-bones a symbolic emblem of death and decay.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of skulls grinning at you, is a sign of domestic quarrels and jars. Business will feel a shrinkage if you handle them. To see a friend's skull, denotes that you will receive injury from a friend because of your being preferred to him. To see your own skull, denotes that you will be the servant of remorse.
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Examples
- Bois-Guilbert's new shield bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto, Gare le Corbeau. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is a thick skull, thicker than that of any living race of men, and it has a brain capacity intermediate between that of Pithecanthropus and man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was something curiously indecent, obscene, about her small, longish, dark skull, particularly when the ears showed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The man's skull had been shattered by a blow from a poker delivered from behind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a grinning human skull which looked up at them from the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They put his skull in a tree and they ask him to forgive them before they leave it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He tapped his skull beside his eye with one finger. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There was an ugly flesh wound, but no signs of a fracture of the skull. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The top of a skull, some teeth, and a thigh-bone have been found. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gooseberry, said the Sergeant, patting his head, you have got something in that small skull of yours--and it isn't cotton-wool. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Then he took a skull and held it in his hand, and looked reflectively upon it, after the manner of the grave-digger when he discourses of Yorick. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You want it all in that loathsome little skull of yours, that ought to be cracked like a nut. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We should remember that the skull at this early age is cartilaginous and flexible, so that it readily yields to muscular action. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Skulls, warious. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Strapped on either breast were human skulls and depending from these a number of dried human hands. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In the region of the Doubs and of the Dordogne in France, many individuals are to be met with to this day with skulls of the Cro-Magnon type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Several human skulls lay upon the floor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Joe, do you seriously think all the wisdom in the world is lodged in male skulls? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Pyramids of skulls were his particular architectural fancy; after the storming of Ispahan he made one of 70,000. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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