OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10320

skull

/ˈskʌl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
calaca • calavera • cráneo
The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
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…
calavera
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.
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