英文字典中文字典51ZiDian.com

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide)

Skull \Skull\, n. [See {School} a multitude.]
A school, company, or shoal. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.
--Warner.
[1913 Webster]

These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls.
--Holland.
[1913 Webster]


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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

2. The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
[1913 Webster]

Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn.
--Cowper.
[1913 Webster]

3. A covering for the head; a skullcap. [Obs. & R.]
[1913 Webster]

Let me put on my skull first. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]

4. A sort of oar. See {Scull}.
[1913 Webster]

{Skull and crossbones}, a symbol of death. See {Crossbones}.
[1913 Webster]