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Crossbones   Listen
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Crossbones  n. pl.  A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. "Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality."






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"Crossbones" Quotes from Famous Books



... dying, mortality, expiration, quietus, mort, obit, extinction; euthanasia (an easy death). Associated-words: eschatology, thanatology, thanatopsis, necrology, thanatophobia, necrophobia, necrolatry, requiem, necromancy, posthumous, post-mortem, ante-mortem, euthanasian, dirge, crossbones, placebo, in extremis, decedent, funeral, obit, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... I needn't tell you, and Pecksniff says that father's being so lately dead makes very little odds; for we can be married as quiet as we please down here, and my being lonely is a good reason to the neighbours for taking a wife home so soon, especially one that he knew. As to crossbones (my uncle, I mean), he's sure not to put a spoke in the wheel, whatever we settle on, for he told Pecksniff only this morning, that if YOU liked it he'd nothing at all to say. So, Mel,' said Jonas, venturing on another ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens



Words linked to "Crossbones" :   symbolisation, symbolization, symbol, symbolic representation, skull and crossbones



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