He fell 40 feet and fractured his skull, hip, and nose, and lay there motionless.
Katniss walks through mountains of skeletons, at one point recoiling in horror as she inadvertently steps on a skull.
He subsequently told the Post that it was clear he had killed bin Laden because his skull was split open.
Before the 16thcentury, Spanish conquest, the Aztecs saw the skull as a symbol of rebirth.
Your Advanced Combat Helmet weighs seven pounds and the back pads press furiously into the corners of your skull.
Pericles was usually represented with a helmet, to cover the deformity in his skull.
But the man had been only stunned by a bullet that plowed its way across the top of his skull.
Up goes the black flag, and the skull and crossbones to the fore.
"I've a good mind to break that chap's skull," he said to himself as he turned away.
With his own hands he uncovered the bones and skull of some brave warrior.
"bony framework of the head," c.1200, probably from Old Norse skalli "a bald head, skull," a general Scandinavian word (cf. Swedish skulle, Norwegian skult), probably related to Old English scealu "husk" (see shell (n.)). But early prominence in southwestern texts suggests rather origin from a Dutch or Low German cognate (e.g. Dutch schol "turf, piece of ice," but the sense of "head bone framework" is wanting). Derivation from Old French escuelle seems unlikely on grounds of sound and sense. Old English words for skull include heafod-bolla.
skull (skŭl)
n.
The bony or cartilaginous framework of the head, made up of the bones of the braincase and face; cranium.
| skull The part of the skeleton that forms the framework of the head, consisting of the bones of the cranium, which protect the brain, and the bones of the face. See more at skeleton. |
