skull

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Front view of a human skull
The skull of a hippopotamus.
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skull (plural skulls)

  1. (anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; the cranium.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
      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.
  2. A symbol for death; death's-head

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cranium
death's-head, skull

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skull (third-person singular simple present skulls, present participle skulling, simple past and past participle skulled)

  1. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

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skull c

  1. (on someone's) behalf; an archaic form of skuld (debt), used to indicate for whom or why something is done
    för min skull
    for me, because of me, on my behalf
    För edra hjärtans hårdhets skull tillstadde Moses eder att skiljas från edra hustrur
    Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives (Matthew 19:8)

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