Skull: Definition and part of speech

Skull

  1. n. A sort of oar. See Scull.
  2. n. A school, company, or shoal.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
  5. n. A covering for the head; a skullcap.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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