skullnoun詞源 1/ˈskʌl/

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  anatomymedicinesciencesThe main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.

  • All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.
  • 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.
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  These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.

  • Thine are these orbs of light and shade; ⁠Thou madest Life in man and brute; ⁠Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
• 3

  The mind or brain.

  • My thoughts are flying around in my skull like fireflies in a jar, but all of a sudden I'm unbearably tired and can't stay awake.
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  A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.

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  The crown of the headpiece in armour.

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  A shallow bow-handled basket.

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  obsoleteslangThe head or master of a college.

  • Graduates […] will never forget that majestic stature, that massive brow, that commanding look, as its possessor paced the ante-chapel of his college, or took his seat of presidence among the skulls of Golgotha.

skullverb詞源 1/ˈskʌl/

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

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  golfhobbieslifestyleTo strike the top of (the ball).

  • Monte swung so hard at the next ball that he skulled it straight right, into the pond: 8 in, 9 out.
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  To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.

  • She nearly skulled the next drink and, despite feeling a little woozy, she felt a lot better.
  • That was at Jessica Eyre's sixteenth, and while nothing terrible had happened (I had skulled four Lemon Ruskis and fallen asleep in the garden), it was agreed by all that I had embarrassed myself.

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