Word Meanings - SCULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The skull.

SKULLFISH
A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
SKULLCAP
Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
SKULL
A school, company, or shoal. A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.
THICK-SKULLED
Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
NUMSKULL
A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
SAPSKULL
A saphead.
CALAVERAS SKULL
A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the
THICKSKULL
A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.
NUMSKULLED
Stupid; doltish.