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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

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

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

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
Mary Baker Eddy

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 also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
Robert T. Bakker

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

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

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
Jonathan Lethem

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
Donald Johanson

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
Charles Lyell

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

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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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