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crossbones
(encz) | crossbones,smrtihlav n: Zdeněk Brož |
crossbones
(encz) | crossbones,zkřížené hnáty Zdeněk Brož |
Crossbones
(gcide) | Crossbones \Cross"bones`\ (kr[o^]s"b[=o]nz`), n. pl.
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a
skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and
serving as a symbol of death.
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Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious
emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne.
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crossbones
(wn) | crossbones
n 1: two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed
bones) used as a symbol danger or death |
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crossbones
(encz) | crossbones,smrtihlav n: Zdeněk Brožcrossbones,zkřížené hnáty Zdeněk Brož |
skull and crossbones
(encz) | skull and crossbones,umrlčí lebka n: Zdeněk Brožskull and crossbones,zkřížené hnáty Jan Hradil |
Skull and crossbones
(gcide) | Skull \Skull\, n. [OE. skulle, sculle, scolle; akin to Scot.
skull, skoll, a bowl, Sw. skalle skull, skal a shell, and E.
scale; cf. G. hirnschale, Dan. hierneskal. Cf. Scale of a
balance.]
1. (Anat.) 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.
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Note: In many fishes the skull is almost wholly cartilaginous
but in the higher vertebrates it is more or less
completely ossified, several bones are developed in the
face, and the cranium is made up, wholly or partially,
of bony plates arranged in three segments, the frontal,
parietal, and occipital, and usually closely united in
the adult.
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2. The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
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Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn.
--Cowper.
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3. A covering for the head; a skullcap. [Obs. & R.]
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Let me put on my skull first. --Beau. & Fl.
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4. A sort of oar. See Scull.
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Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death. See Crossbones.
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crossbones
(wn) | crossbones
n 1: two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed
bones) used as a symbol danger or death |
skull and crossbones
(wn) | skull and crossbones
n 1: emblem warning of danger or death |
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