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A school, company, or shoal. [Obs.] A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.

The Lophiomys. Mad-dog skullcap (Bot.), an American herb (Scetellaria lateriflora) formerly prescribed as a cure for hydrophobia.

A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.

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 deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented ant…

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [Colloq.] They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.

Stupid; doltish. [Colloq.]

A saphead. [Low]

Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.

A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.

Partial or total absence of the skull.

Wanting a skull.

Characterized by a high skull.

Loftiness of skull.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

oth ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

ticulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto- mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.

The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.