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Definition of Skull
Skull

A school, company, or shoal.

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.

The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.

A covering for the head; a skullcap.

A sort of oar. See Scull.

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Skull Quotations

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Locked in each human skull is a little world all its own.
Robert Tusker

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
Mike Tyson

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra

Skull Translations

skull in Dutch is schedel
skull in Hungarian is koponya
skull in Norwegian is skalle
skull in Swedish is skalle, kranium


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