Definition of Skull

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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.

Related Definitions:

And, Angles, Animal, Appendix, Brain, Carnivora, Case, Company, Covering, Cranium, Face, Facial, For, Head, In, Including, Intelligence, Mind, Mouth, Oar, Of, Or, School, Scull, Seat, See, Shoal, Skeleton, Skullcap, Sort, The, Under, Vertebrate

Skull Quotations

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

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

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.
Glenn Danzig

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
Allen Ginsberg

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

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry

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

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
Richard Leakey

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
Danny DeVito

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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