Meaning of skull | Babel Free

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1. The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
2. The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible
3. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.
4. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head
5. The part of the skeleton that forms the framework of the head, consisting of the bones that protect the brain and the bones of the face. See more at skeleton.
6. The mind or brain
7. The mind or brain.
   figuratively
8. Twenty-two bones forming the frame of the head. All interlock rigidly except the hinged lower jawbone (mandible).
9. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal
10. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
11. the bony case that encloses the brain. He's fractured his skull. skedel جُمْجُمَه череп crânio lebka der Schädel hovedskal κρανίοcalavera kolju جمجمه pääkallo crâneגולגולת खोपड़ी, कपाल lubanja koponya tengkorak hauskúpa cranio 頭がい骨 두개골 kaukolė galvaskauss tengkorak schedelskalleczaszka ككرۍ، كوپړۍ، كوټې، سر، دسر كاسه: كركجن، منفور crânio craniu череп lebka lobanja lobanja skalle กะโหลกศีรษะ kafatası 頭骨 череп کھوپڑی sọ, đầu lâu 颅骨
12. The crown of the headpiece in armour
13. The crown of the headpiece in armour.
14. cráneo; calavera, estructura ósea de la cabeza;base of the ___ → base del ___;
15. A shallow bow-handled basket.
    Scotland
16. The bony or cartilaginous framework that encloses and protects the brain and sense organs of all vertebrates and of one group of nonvertebrates (the hagfishes); cranium.
17. The head or master of a college.
    UK, obsolete, slang
18. Informal The head, regarded as the seat of thought or intelligence: Use your skull and solve the problem.
    Informal
19. A death's-head.
20. (Anatomy) the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates. See cranium
21. often derogatory the head regarded as the mind or intelligence: to have a dense skull.
    often
22. (Heraldry) a picture of a skull used to represent death or danger

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Examples

“All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.”

“He was about to roar when, lying among the black sticks and straw under the cliff, he saw a whole skull—perhaps a cow's skull, a skull, perhaps, with the teeth in it. Sobbing, but absent-mindedly, he ran farther and farther away until he held the skull in his arms.”

“Thine are these orbs of light and shade; ⁠Thou madest Life in man and brute; ⁠Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.”

“My thoughts are flying around in my skull like fireflies in a jar, but all of a sudden I'm unbearably tired and can't stay awake.”

“Graduates […] will never forget that majestic stature, that massive brow, that commanding look, as its possessor paced the ante-chapel of his college, or took his seat of presidence among the skulls of Golgotha.”

“A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.”

“These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.”

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