skull

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from a dialectal form of Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English sċealu (“husk”), to Proto-Norse *ᛋᚲᚨᛚᛟ (*skalo), from Proto-Germanic *skallô; compare Finnish skallo. Compare Scots scull, Danish skal (“skull”) and skalle (“bald head, skull”), Norwegian skalle, Swedish skalle and especially dialectal Swedish skulle. Related to Old Norse skoltr (“brow”), skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Norwegian Nynorsk skult, skolt (“cranium, head (of a hammer); crag; hub”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Middle Low German scholle, schulle (“clod, sod”), and Scots skult, skolt. Compare also Old High German sciula, skiula (“skull”). Possibly related to Latin celsus (“lofty, high, tall”), collis (“hill”). Also related to Old Norse skǫllóttr, Icelandic sköllóttur, Old Swedish skallotter, Swedish skallig, Danish skaldet, Norwegian skallet (“bald”). ==== Alternative forms ==== scull (obsolete, except verb "down in one") ==== Pronunciation ==== enPR: skŭl, IPA(key): /ˈskʌl/ Homophone: scull (Northern England) IPA(key): /skʊl/ Rhymes: -ʌl ==== Noun ==== skull (plural skulls) (anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head. (figuratively) The mind or brain. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal. The crown of the headpiece in armour. (Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket. (UK, obsolete, slang) The head or master of a college. ===== Synonyms ===== brainpan harnpan ===== Hypernyms ===== bone head ===== Meronyms ===== Thesaurus:skull ===== Coordinate terms ===== cranium ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== 💀 ==== Verb ==== skull (third-person singular simple present skulls, present participle skulling, simple past and past participle skulled) To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object. (transitive, golf) To strike the top of (the ball). To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it. ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === See school (“a multitude”). ==== Noun ==== skull (plural skulls) Obsolete form of school (“a multitude”). 1601, Philemon Holland (translator), Pliny the Elder (author), The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndvs., book IX, chapter xv: “Of the names and natures of many fishes.”: These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest. ==== References ==== === Anagrams === Kulls == Swedish == === Etymology === An alternative form of skuld (“debt”), from Old Norse skuld, from Proto-Germanic *skuldiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéltis. Compare gälla and gälda. Used to indicate for whom or why something is done. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /skɵlː/ === Noun === skull c sake ==== Related terms ==== skuld skyld skylla === References === “skull”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “skull”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “skull”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) === Anagrams === kulls